On Thursday 15 May 2008, 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
>
> $ uname -a
> FreeBSD pmstorage3.uk1.bibliotech.net 7.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE #0:
> Sun Feb 24 19:59:52 UTC 2008
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 $
>
> $ df -h
> Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
> /dev/da0s1a 496M 128M 328M 28% /
> devfs 1.0K 1.0K 0B 100% /dev
> /dev/da1s1d 61G 4.0K 56G 0% /export
> /dev/da0s1e 496M 12K 456M 0% /tmp
> /dev/da0s1f 22G 515M 20G 2% /usr
> /dev/da0s1d 4.1G 1.3M 3.8G 0% /var
> $
>
>
> server details are
>
> CyberServe 38512
> 3U Chassis 16 x Hot Swap HDD, 5.25 Slim line CD, FDD Redundant 700 Watt
> PSU X7 DBE Main Board
> 1 x 5420 2.5GHz Intel Xeon Low power Processor 2 x 6Mb 1333 FSB
> 16 GB DDR Memory ( Low Powered Ram)
> 3 Ware 16 Port Hardware RAID Controller, 0,1,0+1,5,50 & 6
> 16 x WD 500 Gb SATA HDDs Green Drives (Raid 6 System Drives Total Usable
> Volume size 4.79 TB ) 2xGbE LAN ports,
>
>
>
> does anyone know why this is?
>
>
> thanks,
>
> oliver
You cannot use fdisk slices ("partitions") with disks over 2TB. Use of GPT is
recommended. See gpt(8) and:
http://www.freebsd.org/projects/bigdisk/index.html
Another way would be to simply newfs/mount /dev/ad1 instead (without
partitioning).
--
Pieter de Goeje
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