Create 2.5TB file system on 5.4S?

[Dan Rue]

On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 10:58:36AM -0700, Brandon Fosdick wrote:
> > I recently dealt with the same controller, with a 3TB array.  My
> > solution is tons easier than dealing with gpt or breaking it up.  So
> > long as you don't need to boot from the raid, and you just want it as
> > one big disk, forget partitioning it.  newfs the device directly, and
> > mount it directly.
> >
> > drue at leopard:~$ df -h
> > ...
> > /dev/da0       2.6T    182G    2.3T     7%    /d
> >
> > I just did a newfs on /dev/da0 and mounted it.  Works /great/.  No fuss.
> 
> Did you just "newfs /dev/da0"? I think I tried that already without
> success, something about a bad superblock. I'll try it again tonight just
> to make sure.

Reviewing my notes (actually, my irc logs), i believe i did just do a
"newfs /dev/da0".  I found this thread to be useful, and this message in
particular: 

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2005-April/084557.html

Though, I didn't find the dd and disklabel steps necessary.

Dan