Create 2.5TB file system on 5.4S?

[Mikael Krantz]

Brandon Fosdick wrote:

>>I recently dealt with the same controller, with a 3TB array.  My
>>solution is tons easier than dealing with gpt or breaking it up.  So
>>long as you don't need to boot from the raid, and you just want it as
>>one big disk, forget partitioning it.  newfs the device directly, and
>>mount it directly.
>>
>>drue at leopard:~$ df -h
>>...
>>/dev/da0       2.6T    182G    2.3T     7%    /d
>>
>>I just did a newfs on /dev/da0 and mounted it.  Works /great/.  No fuss.
>>    
>>
>
>Did you just "newfs /dev/da0"? I think I tried that already without
>success, something about a bad superblock. I'll try it again tonight just
>to make sure.
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I had the same problem with 8x400 disk on a areca hardware sata card in
fbsd 5.4-stable. Soo I just did newfs -m 2 -U -O 2 -i 262144 /dev/da0
with those options as I needed as much space as possible.

I had the issue that label didnt wanna let me do partitions.

// Mikael Krantz
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