vinum limits disk size to 255MB
Markus Hoenicka
markus.hoenicka at mhoenicka.de
Sun Dec 5 17:14:29 PST 2004
Greg 'groggy' Lehey writes:
> You don't say whether you're using vinum or gvinum. I've never seen
> this problem before, but if you're getting incorrect subdisk sizes,
> try specifying them explicitly:
>
> sd length 35840952s drive ibma
>
> I wonder whether the problem is related to specifying the size as 0m
> instead of 0. It shouldn't be.
>
Actually I've never heard of gvinum, so I'm pretty sure we're looking
at vinum here.
Looks like this is an odd pilot error. If I label disks from within
sysinstall and on the command line, one tool apparently doesn't know
what the other is doing. This must be a gross misunderstanding on my
side of how these tools work. Using bsdlabel to set the partition
sizes apparently is not sufficient. To make a long story short, I went
back to sysinstall, created a partition using the full disk, then went
to bsdlabel -e to turn the partition into type vinum. Now I get the
full capacity.
I still can't make a raid5 out of these drives. I'm still fiddling and
will get back to the list if I can't figure this out myself.
Thanks anyway for your prompt answer.
Markus
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