I am having some trouble getting 4 x 2TB sata disks into one big single softraid (raid 5) disk. I can create the softraid0 disk and it's 5.5TB want would like to get a single 5.5TB partition but can only make one single 1.5TB partition! Can someone tell me where I'm going wrong.

Thanks
Keith

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Start from fresh and  delete softraid0 disk...
#bioctl -d sd0

## Wipe the first part of the disks.
#dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rwd0c bs=10m count=1
#dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rwd1c bs=10m count=1
#dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rwd2c bs=10m count=1
#dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rwd3c bs=10m count=1

#fdisk -iy wd0
#fdisk -iy wd1
#fdisk -iy wd2
#fdisk -iy wd3

## Make a partition of type RAID
#printf "a\n\n\n\nRAID\nw\nq\n\n" | disklabel -E wd0
#printf "a\n\n\n\nRAID\nw\nq\n\n" | disklabel -E wd1
#printf "a\n\n\n\nRAID\nw\nq\n\n" | disklabel -E wd2
#printf "a\n\n\n\nRAID\nw\nq\n\n" | disklabel -E wd3

#bioctl -c 5 -l /dev/wd0a,/dev/wd1a,/dev/wd2a,/dev/wd3a softraid0

sd1 at scsibus3 targ 1 lun 0: <OPENBSD, SR RAID 5, 004> SCSI2 0/direct fixed
sd1: 5723178MB, 512 bytes/sector, 11721070080 sectors

#dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rsd1c bs=1m count=1

#fdisk -iy sd1

This give me....

# fdisk -e sd1
Enter 'help' for information
fdisk: 1> p
Disk: sd1       geometry: 729602/255/63 [3131135488 Sectors]
Offset: 0       Signature: 0xAA55
            Starting         Ending         LBA Info:
 #: id      C   H   S -      C   H   S [       start:        size ]
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 0: 00      0   0   0 -      0   0   0 [           0:           0 ] unused
 1: 00      0   0   0 -      0   0   0 [           0:           0 ] unused
 2: 00      0   0   0 -      0   0   0 [           0:           0 ] unused
*3: A6      0   1   2 - 194903  76  55 [          64:  3131121474 ] OpenBSD

Then I try and partition the disk.....

# disklabel -E sd1
Label editor (enter '?' for help at any prompt)
> a a
offset: [64]
size: [3131121474]
FS type: [4.2BSD]
> p T
OpenBSD area: 64-3131121538; size: 1.5T; free: 0.0T
#                size           offset  fstype [fsize bsize  cpg]
  a:             1.5T               64  4.2BSD   8192 65536    1
  c:             5.5T                0  unused

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