Re: Can't create > 1.5TB softraid partition.

2011-12-24 Thread Keith
Hi Christian, I'll will try as soon as I can. That's going to be early next year now as I accidentally messed with the wrong disk in the server and will now need to make a wee trip to the data center to reinstall obsd oops... Cheers Keith On 22/12/2011 23:05, Christian Weisgerber wrote: Ke

Re: Can't create > 1.5TB softraid partition.

2011-12-23 Thread Otto Moerbeek
On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 01:21:20PM +, keith wrote: > On 22/12/2011 21:36, Keith wrote: > >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

Re: Can't create > 1.5TB softraid partition.

2011-12-23 Thread Kenneth R Westerback
On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 09:05:08AM +0100, Martin Schr?der wrote: > 2011/12/23 Christian Weisgerber : > > The MBR format is limited to a 32-bit number of sectors. Given > > And then there was GPT. > > What's the state of GPT support in OpenBSD? > > Best >Martin > Non-existant. Ken

Re: Can't create > 1.5TB softraid partition.

2011-12-23 Thread keith
On 22/12/2011 21:36, Keith wrote: 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 wher

Re: Can't create > 1.5TB softraid partition.

2011-12-23 Thread Martin Schröder
2011/12/23 Christian Weisgerber : > The MBR format is limited to a 32-bit number of sectors. Given And then there was GPT. What's the state of GPT support in OpenBSD? Best Martin

Re: Can't create > 1.5TB softraid partition.

2011-12-22 Thread Christian Weisgerber
Keith wrote: > 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

Re: Can't create > 1.5TB softraid partition.

2011-12-22 Thread Keith
Here's my DMESG OpenBSD 5.0 (GENERIC.MP) #63: Wed Aug 17 10:14:30 MDT 2011 dera...@amd64.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC.MP real mem = 2136576000 (2037MB) avail mem = 2065637376 (1969MB) mainbus0 at root bios0 at mainbus0: SMBIOS rev. 2.6 @ 0x7f79c000 (66 entries) bios

Can't create > 1.5TB softraid partition.

2011-12-22 Thread Keith
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