8TB Partition Problem

[Adam Nowacki]

On 2011-10-20 13:37, umar wrote:
> Hi Member,
>
> Recently I have buy Dell Power Vault NX3100, with 4 3 TB hardrive after
> creating the raid it give me 8.xx TB partition. There is another 2 HD with
> 140GB attached with Raid 1. I have install FreeBSD 8.2 64bit on Raid1
> partition.
>
> After the installation I have tried to create new partition on 8TB drive
> through sysinstall but its not working. Then I tried bsdlable but its also
> failed below is the error message of bsdlable.
>
> bsdlabel: disks with more than 2^32-1 sectors are not supported
>
> Would you please help me how i can solve this problem. If freebsd is not
> supported 8 TB then which Linux is supporting so I can move to Linux

Use GPT, gpart create -s GPT /dev/device then add partitions with gpart, 
see 
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=gpart&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+8.2-RELEASE&arch=default&format=html

>
> Best Regards,
>
> Umar
>
>
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