>You cannot use fdisk for this, because fdisk creates MBR partition tables and >these partitions are limited to 2 TB. You have three >options: > >1. Use GPT instead of MBR. This is handled by gpt (FreeBSD 7) and gpart >(FreeBSD 8) commands.
We're running 8.0. I'll have to check out gpart. >2. Use a "dangerously dedicated" partitioning scheme. >3. Bypass all partitioning issues and do what Polytropon suggested. > >The third option will only work if you don't need to boot from the array and >are happy with a single 11TB file system. We do need to boot from these drives so this is not an option. > The second option gives you partitions and the ability to boot FreeBSD, but > no other operating system will recognize the array. >Device names will be da1a, da1b, etc. To do this run the following >commands: > >bsdlabel -w -B da1 When I run this command I get: # bsdlabel -w -B da1 bsdlabel: disks with more than 2^32-1 sectors are not supported So that seems we are limited to option 1. We didn't anticipate this; hope there aren't unexpected gotchas lurking around the corner...
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