On Tue, 8 Dec 2009 12:36:54 -0600, Peter Steele pste...@maxiscale.com wrote:
We have 3U systems with 3Ware raid controllers configured to give
us large 11TB logical drives. The diskinfo command shows this:
[...]
We want to create a BSD slice to cover the entire drive. My plan
was to use the
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 1:36 PM, Peter Steele pste...@maxiscale.com wrote:
We have 3U systems with 3Ware raid controllers configured to give us large
11TB logical drives. The diskinfo command shows this:
# diskinfo -v da1
da1
512 # sectorsize
1133104128 #
In the subject line, you wrote large partition, so I assume you won't want
to boot from from the device, but use it as a big storage area instead.
Correct me if I'm wrong.
For simplicity I didn't include all the details. In fact we need three slices,
one for the OS, one for swap, and the
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
On Tue, 8 Dec 2009 13:14:05 -0600, Peter Steele pste...@maxiscale.com wrote:
In the subject line, you wrote large partition, so I
assume you won't want to boot from from the device, but
use it as a big storage area instead. Correct me if I'm wrong.
For simplicity I didn't include all the
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 1:27 PM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote:
b) go with gpt / gpart, which is okay if FreeBSD will
be the only OS that accesses the disk(s) in question,
as I may assume by your statements.
GUID partitions are recognized by many more OS's than just FreeBSD although
Excuse me, you're mixing up terminology here. Let me explain:
A SLICE is what Windows calls a DOS primary partition, often just named a
partition.
Yes, I know what a BSD slice is compared to a BSD partition. Considering that
fdisk uses partition interchangeably in cases with slice, I often do
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Peter Steele pste...@maxiscale.com wrote:
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
b) go with gpt / gpart, which is okay if FreeBSD will
be the only OS that accesses the disk(s) in question,
as I may assume by your statements.
That's correct; these will be strictly BSD accessible drives.
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On Tue, 8 Dec 2009 13:43:41 -0600, Peter Steele pste...@maxiscale.com wrote:
Yes, I know what a BSD slice is compared to a BSD partition.
Considering that fdisk uses partition interchangeably in
cases with slice, I often do as well. I guess it can be
confusing if one isn't careful with
2009/12/8 Polytropon free...@edvax.de
On Tue, 8 Dec 2009 13:43:41 -0600, Peter Steele pste...@maxiscale.com
wrote:
Yes, I know what a BSD slice is compared to a BSD partition.
Considering that fdisk uses partition interchangeably in
cases with slice, I often do as well. I guess it can be
On Tue, 8 Dec 2009 20:52:52 +, krad kra...@googlemail.com wrote:
stay away from dangerously dedicated it seems as though they are being
phased out
I've followed the related discussion, but I'm not sure what
to conclude from it... as far as I understood, creating an
installation dangerously
b) go with gpt / gpart, which is okay if FreeBSD will
be the only OS that accesses the disk(s) in question,
as I may assume by your statements.
That's correct; these will be strictly BSD accessible drives.
FWIW: I've used GUID drives with Mac OS X, Windows XP, Ubuntu
and PC-BSD all resident
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