Andrei Kolu wrote: > Ivan Voras wrote: >> Andrei Kolu wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I have trouble to create FreeBSD 7.1 i386 partition/slice to 3Ware 8port >>> raid kontroller with 8x500GB drives attached to it. Raid 5 massive is >>> 3,1TB in size and during sysinstall installation I select whole >>> available space but after restart I can access only 1,2TB from it. What >>> is the problem? >>> >> >> MS-DOS fdisk partitions and bsdlabel partitions both have 32-bit >> limitations on the file system size. You should use gpart to partition >> the large volume. That is, except if you want to boot from it also - >> then it's a bit problematic; it's best to create two logical drives in >> your RAID controller - one small drive for the OS (something like 8 GB >> to keep the ports and all) and the rest for the data. >> >> > I created 20GB slice for system and selected everything else for /data > but after restart I see again 1,2TB /data. After second sysinstall > attempt I created another 2TB slice and now at least I can use whole > space. Not so good but it works. > > Second attempt: > Now I reserved 20GB for "boot volume" from 3Ware 9650SE controller and > looks like it ...oops...did it again....deem. > > # df -H > Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/da0s1a 2.1G 146M 1.8G 8% / > devfs 1.0k 1.0k 0B 100% /dev > /dev/da1s1d 1.2T 4.1k 1.1T 0% /data > /dev/da0s1d 3.1G 12k 2.9G 0% /tmp > /dev/da0s1f 8.3G 450M 7.2G 6% /usr > /dev/da0s1e 4.2G 281k 3.8G 0% /var
Ok, you're on the right track. Just don't use bsdlabel or fdisk partitions for da1 - clear the partition tables and use gpart to create a GPT partition tables which has no 32-bit problems.
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