Partiotioning 2.2TB Under FreeBSD 5.2.1

[Amandeep Pannu]

Hi all,

Thanks all for your replies. I installed 5.3 which saw the whole 2.2TB in
sysinstall then I made two slices and mounted them.
Everything worked fine.

Thanks again.
Kudos to 5.3
Aman
>> I am new to this big arrays. FreeBSD 5.2.1 doesnt see all the 2.2TB.
> So am I, and I had the same problem recently.  I used 5.3-Stable as of a
> couple of weeks ago so YMMV, but...
>
>> GEOM: create disk da0 dp=0xc832fc50
>> da0 at twa0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
>> da0: <3ware Logical Disk 00 1.00> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-0 device
>> da0: 100.000MB/s transfers
>> da0: 2384080MB (4882595840 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 303927C)
> Looks good to me.
>
> You may want to have a look at:
> http://www.freebsd.org/projects/bigdisk/
>
> Note that fdisk will only support upto 2TB partitions (aka slices in BSD),
> and only allow you access to under 2TB of a disk, you seem to be just over
> this limit.  Therefore you may have to use gpt(8).
>
> Thus for you:
> # gpt create da0
> # gpt add da0
>
> Will create /dev/da0p1 and it will use the entire disk (use gpt show da0
> to
> check), however it will probably not be bootable.
> Also note that disklabel/bsdlabel dosen't like values over 2TB, so you
> have
> to use gpt to partition the disk as you want.
>
> Henry
>


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