On 05/07/2009 07:28 PM, Paul Stewart wrote: > Hi there.. > > > > I hope this is the correct mailing list to ask this question. > > > > I have a Dell Poweredge R710 server (brand new)... 7.2-RELEASE installs fine > but I'm having a problem getting any large partitions over approximately > 500GB. During the installation it allows me to create 4.5TB partition but > after rebooting it's only really 500GB +/- > > > > Has anyone successfully installed into a disk this large? This is a RAID5 > array using the Dell Perc 6/I controller > > > > I have installed now 6+ times with smaller partitions (100GB even) and run > into problems . hoping someone could share how they got large disk support > working.. I'd be happy with several 1TB partitions but when I configure it > this way and exceed 4 partitions it tells me disk error creating > partitions..
Unfortunately, MBR and BSD disklabel use 32 bit values, so they are limited to 2TB. GPT uses 64 bit values, but I don't believe that FreeBSD fully supports it. You can see the Big Disk project page [1] for more information. As a workaround, you may wish redo your RAID configuration so that you have multiple logical volumes (e.g. 2T, 2T, 0.5T). [1] http://www.freebsd.org/projects/bigdisk/index.html -- Benjamin Lee http://www.b1c1l1.com/
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