Create 2.5TB file system on 5.4S?

[Brandon Fosdick]

> I recently dealt with the same controller, with a 3TB array.  My
> solution is tons easier than dealing with gpt or breaking it up.  So
> long as you don't need to boot from the raid, and you just want it as
> one big disk, forget partitioning it.  newfs the device directly, and
> mount it directly.
>
> drue at leopard:~$ df -h
> ...
> /dev/da0       2.6T    182G    2.3T     7%    /d
>
> I just did a newfs on /dev/da0 and mounted it.  Works /great/.  No fuss.

Did you just "newfs /dev/da0"? I think I tried that already without
success, something about a bad superblock. I'll try it again tonight just
to make sure.