I have posted questions regarding large file systems. I was able to reboot and maintain my 8.2TB file system. Commands follow.
My major problem was not setting label type to GPT in parted. Been away for a couple of years:-( > sudo parted /dev/sda rm 1 mklabel gpt (parted) mkpart p 0 9TB (parted) print free Model: 3ware Logical Disk 00 (scsi) Disk /dev/sda: 9000GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: gpt Number Start End Size File system Name Flags 1 17.4kB 9000GB 9000GB p > sudo mkfs.xfs -b size=4k -d su=64k,sw=6 -i size=2k -l version=2 -f -s size=4k -L raid8 /dev/sda1 meta-data=/dev/sda1 isize=2048 agcount=9, agsize=268435440 blks = sectsz=4096 attr=2 data = bsize=4096 blocks=2197249527, imaxpct=5 = sunit=16 swidth=96 blks naming =version 2 bsize=4096 log =internal log bsize=4096 blocks=32768, version=2 = sectsz=4096 sunit=1 blks, lazy-count=0 realtime =none extsz=4096 blocks=0, rtextents=0 sudo mount /dev/sda1 /usr2 > df Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sdb1 880G 124G 712G 15% / tmpfs 16G 0 16G 0% /lib/init/rw varrun 16G 128K 16G 1% /var/run varlock 16G 0 16G 0% /var/lock udev 16G 2.8M 16G 1% /dev tmpfs 16G 0 16G 0% /dev/shm /dev/sda1 8.2T 4.6M 8.2T 1% /usr2 After boot:-) > df /dev/sda1 8.2T 4.6M 8.2T 1% /usr2 I hope this can be of use to someone. don -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss