disklabel not returning values for large RAID
Darren David
darren at thebomb.com
Fri Jan 2 06:29:12 UTC 2009
Darren David wrote:
> Hi all-
>
> I recently added a 4th 750GB disk to my existing 1.5TB 3ware RAID5
> volume, in an attempt to bring my total capacity up to ~2.25TB (4x750GB
> RAID5).
>
> I successfully used the 3ware 'tw-cli' utility to perform "Online
> Capacity Expansion." The controller migrated the existing data across
> all 4 disks, and it now reports a total volume capacity of 2095.44GB.
> Excellent.
>
> So, the issue I'm having is with getting FreeBSD 7.0-Release to
> recognize the additional space. I've seen scant few articles on the
> subject, the best of which is here:
>
> http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200111/growfs.html
>
> My primary issue right now is that when I attempt to run disklabel on
> the volume (/dev/da0) in order to get my calculations for fdisk, i get:
>
> # disklabel /dev/da0
> disklabel: disks with more than 2^32-1 sectors are not supported
>
> and when I attempt it on the slice, i get:
>
> # disklabel /dev/da0s1
> disklabel: /dev/da0s1: no valid label found
>
> What's the trick here?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Darren David
Update:
OK, I discovered gpt. Here's the output:
# gpt show /dev/da0
start size index contents
0 1 MBR
1 62
63 2929629402 1 MBR part 165
2929629465 1464835815
Can anyone please give me some insight as to where to go from here?
Cheers,
Darren
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