twe driver, 1+ terabyte array, fdisk and disklabel

[Brooks Davis]

On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 11:10:27PM -0500, Mark Nipper wrote:
> 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.  :)
> ---
> /dev/twed0s2a   1.5T   2.0K   1.5T     0%    /data

Ahh, I though about that but got frustated with my other ideas not
working and fell back to using two arrays.  I may give that a shot since
the system isn't in production yet.

-- Brooks
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