Large Volumes - 2.2TB missing... expecting 3.4TB!

Hartleigh Burton hburton at mraentertainment.com
Sun Aug 5 22:22:09 PDT 2007


Hi Everyone,

I have installed FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE amd64 on a new boxen... and just  
realized that I am missing just a 'little' bit of storage space ;)

The raid array is as follows:

3ware 9650SE-8LPML Controller
1 x 76GB OS RAID 1 Array (2 x 80GB drives)
1 x 3.4TB DATA RAID 5 Array (6 x 700GB drives)

In order for FreeBSD to even see the controller, I had to download  
the 3rd party drivers from the 3ware site and follow their  
instructions. The installation went very smoothly, I could clearly  
see the 1 x 76GB array & the 3.4TB array, which I successfully  
partitioned and labeled in the FreeBSD setup. I was required to  
recompile the kernel post installation so that FreeBSD would continue  
to see the array. There seemed to be no issues during any of the  
installation/post installation compile.

However now it appears that I am missing a fair bit of space... or it  
is not reading correctly, I don't know exactly. This is the first  
time I have worked with volumes this large, certainly in FreeBSD.

Filesystem     Size    Used   Avail Capacity  Mounted on
/dev/da0s1a    496M     62M    394M    14%    /
devfs          1.0K    1.0K      0B   100%    /dev
/dev/da1s1d    1.4T     42G    1.2T     3%    /db
/dev/da0s1e    496M     16K    456M     0%    /tmp
/dev/da0s1f     59G    1.8G     52G     3%    /usr
/dev/da0s1d    4.8G    115M    4.3G     3%    /var
devfs          1.0K    1.0K      0B   100%    /var/named/dev

Filesystem  1K-blocks      Used      Avail Capacity  Mounted on
/dev/da0s1a     507630    63730     403290    14%    /
devfs                1        1          0   100%    /dev
/dev/da1s1d 1466903074 43775300 1305775530     3%    /db
/dev/da0s1e     507630       16     467004     0%    /tmp
/dev/da0s1f   61443272  1846112   54681700     3%    /usr
/dev/da0s1d    5060654   117282    4538520     3%    /var
devfs                1        1          0   100%    /var/named/dev

As you can see /db is reading as 1.2T, whereas during the  
installation partition/label process this was at ~ 3.4T, which is  
what I am expecting. If anyone could provide some input as to where  
the rest has gone that would be greatly appreciated!



Regards,
Hartleigh Burton.


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