Thanks Matthew. I had to do a manual install using gpart in the fixit live cd to partition the filesystem. Everything looks to be running great.
-Troy Sent from my iPhone On Sep 5, 2010, at 12:53 AM, Matthew Seaman <m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk> wrote: > On 04/09/2010 20:35:02, t...@i2bnetworks.com wrote: > >> I am having a problem with a fresh install onto a that is 9TB in >> size. during the initial install, the syste the correct disk size >> and partition sizes, but after it has complete d and rebooted it >> shows the the large partition as only 1TB. I am using a 3w message, >> it shows that On initial install, this is Total disk size: Sep >> 4 12:17:51 fi (19531038720 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 1215 1G >> da0s1a /&nbs 4G da0s1b &nb 2G da0s1d 36G >> da0s1e &n remainder da0s1f &nbs Upon completion of insta up as >> this: Filesystem&nbs on /dev/da0s1a 1012974 2 devfs >> /dev/da0s1f 1094909108 4 10 /dev/da0s1e&nb /dev/da0s1d >> 2026030 &n It was my understanding that UFS2 supports drive s >> what I am trying to use. Is there something that I am doing >> Thanks, > > Weird. Something seems to have eaten chunks out of your message. I > suspect a less than optimal conversion from HTML -- for best results > write to FreeBSD lists in plain text. > > Anyhow, you've got a system with 9TB disk but your big partition gets > truncated? > > It's not the limits in the UFS2 filesystem that are biting you: that can > handle individual files of up to 32 PB (with the right options) and a > total filesystem size of 1 YB. You may not be familiar with Y 'Yotta' > as an SI prefix: it means 10^24. That's more than enough to boil the > oceans should you attempt to create a filesystem of that size[*]. > > I suspect that you are running into limitations of the disk label. The > original Dos-derived MBR that you can manipulate with fdisk(8) is based > around 32bit quantities and has an inherent limitation to 2TB per > partition. There are ways around this, not least by using the new > gpart(8) disk partitioning. See: > http://www.freebsd.org/projects/bigdisk/index.html > > Personally, I'd start again from scratch and install using both gpart(8) > and zfs(1M). Unfortunately sysinstall(8) can't handle doing that at the > moment. You need to follow a different procedure described here: > http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/GPTZFSBoot/Mirror (Or the equivalent > pages for RAIDZ1 or RAIDZ2 if that's what you prefer) > > Although ZFS's maximum size is /only/ 1 EB (individual file or whole > filesystem) it should still suffice. The compelling advantage with ZFS > is the built-in checksumming of every data block. That's important for > large data volumes where bitwise errors can become significant. Also, > no need for fsck(8). Not even background fsck. > > Cheers, > > Matthew > > [*] Kids: don't try this at home. > > -- > Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard > Flat 3 > PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate > JID: matt...@infracaninophile.co.uk Kent, CT11 9PW > _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"