7.2 wrong filesystem size

[scottishfly]

I am installing freebsd on my areca 1230 raid 4.5T. During sysinstall the correct drive size and respective filesystem allocations seem to be correct (/usr is allocated around 4.5T). Although when I restart the computer and call df the allocation for /usr is substantially less around 500G. Any ideas? Thanks.

 

[mk]

by default freebsd reserve 8% of the fs size

 

[scottishfly]

I am missing a lot more then 8% i am missing almost 4 terabytes of space.

 

[mk]

ops i read as you have 4T but 500G are missing

 

[scottishfly]

after further investigation i have concluded that it is not a driver issue based off of the fact that the boot cd and the freebsd partition are loading the same drivers. Which is leaves either a disk geometry issue or a motherboard issue that i can think of... granted i am a super newb.

 

[mk]

try configurations with 1,2,3,4T and see when problem appears.
it's can be bios or controller fault.
that's from me

 

[graudeejs]

how did you partion your disk?
If you used sysinstall default (fdisk), then you should know about mbr limits.

I suggest you use GPT partitions
http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=1305

if you make fresh install make gpt partitions and fallow this guide, to install system
http://daemonforums.org/showthread.php?t=1538

you can create gpt partitions either with gpt or gpart (which will become default in FBSD8)

 

[scottishfly]

killasmurf thank you for your reply. It was indeed related to the mbr limitations. I have found a suitable solution and i thank you for your help.

 

[IrishWristwatch]

killasmurf thank you for your reply. It was indeed related to the mbr limitations. I have found a suitable solution and i thank you for your help.

What's the solution?

 

[SirDice]

What's the solution?

Read post #7.