5.8TB RAID5 SATA Array Questions

[Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC]

On Apr 14, 2005, at 5:28 PM, Benson Wong wrote:

>>
>> So theoretically it should go over 1000TB…I've conducted several 
>> bastardized
>> installations due to sysinstall not being able to do anything over 
>> the 2TB
>> limit by creating the partition ahead of time…I am going to be 
>> attacking
>> this tonight and my efforts will be primarily focused on creating one 
>> large
>> 5.8TB slice….wish me luck!!
>>
>>
>>
>> PS: Muhaa haa haa!
> You're probably going to run into "boo hoo hoo hoo". Most likely you
> won't be able to get over the 2TB limit. Also don't use sysinstall, I
> was never able to get it to work well. Probably because my arrays were
> mounted over fiber channel and fdisk craps out.
>
> This is what I did:
>
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0 bs=1k count=1
> disklabel -rw da0 audo
> newfs /dev/da0


I have no experience doing any of this.  But this has come up before in 
the lists and someone posted on the magic incantations to use to create 
these things by hand.  So use google or other search engine to search 
the list archives on tb sized file systems.  There is good info there

Chad