raid6 on freebsd7 only showing 61GB instead of 4TB

[Matthew Seaman]

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Oliver Howe wrote:
> 
> I bought a new storage server and installed freebsd7 onto it. it came
> with two raid partitions, one of 32GB which i used for the o/s and
> one of 4.7TB which i am planning to use as a nfs partition.
> everything went fine during the install, fdisk said that there was
> 4.7TB on the second partition which i labelled "/export". but when
> the machine booted up and i did df -h it said that that partition
> only has 61GB and not 4.7TB

fdisk partitioning only supports up to 2TB I believe.  For larger filesystems
you'll need to use gpt(8) instead -- this isn't possible to set up via sysinstall
and it is still very much a work in progress.  Your other alternatives are 
to divide your 4TB area into sub-2TB partitions, or to use zfs(1M).  There are
pros and cons to all of these solutions which have been discussed at length on
various @freebsd.org mailing lists.

	Cheers

	Matthew
 
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