twe driver, 1+ terabyte array, fdisk and disklabel
Mark Nipper
nipsy at tamu.edu
Wed Aug 13 21:10:28 PDT 2003
On 13 Aug 2003, Brooks Davis wrote:
> My workaround was to split the array into a 2 disk RAID1 and a 6 disk
> RAID5. Sysinstall will install on the small mirror and then you can use
> the RAID5 array raw. On some other systems, I'm not going to be booting
> from the arrays so I'll use the entire array as a large RAID5 volume
> without any partions.
Duh. I should have thought of something along these
lines. I just left my 1.75GB RAID-5 array in place and only took
a few gigabytes out of it for slice 1. Then I installed
everything into that for the base system. Worked like a charm.
Next I went ahead post installation and did cvsup and used
fdisk and disklabel (outside sysinstall of course) to create the
current, ridiculous slice and partition. Yay. :)
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/dev/twed0s2a 1.5T 2.0K 1.5T 0% /data
Which reminds me, any chance of putting in more useful
information to fdisk and disklabel from the command line? I had
to fire up sysinstall just to figure out all the sector
boundaries and sizes. What a pain! :)
Anyway, thanks for the feedback. My brain was elsewhere.
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