[SunHELP] My 3T drives are showing up as only 2T

[Peter Stokes]

Hi

No personal experience, but does this help?

http://carltonbale.com/how-to-break-the-2tb-2-terabyte-file-system-limit/

Peter

On 19 Jan 2013, at 03:47, Jerry Kemp <sun.mail.list47 at oryx.cc> wrote:

> Alan,
> 
> Do you suspect that this is a hardware limitation?
> 
> Or a software one?
> 
> Is Solaris/a Solaris distro, or a BSD distro able to see the full disk
> if you do a boot from either of those OS's?
> 
> Jerry
> 
> 
> On 01/18/13 02:11 PM, Alan McKay wrote:
>> OK, I kind of feared this might happen.   I've got an old Sun J4400 24
>> disk array filled with 1T drives.  I want to expand space by replacing
>> 1T with 3T but the 3T drives are only showing up as 2.2 (2T even when
>> formatted ext4).
>> 
>> What are the possible variables here?
>> 
>> I'm running Ubuntu 12.10 (latest) server on an older 64 bit Sunfire
>> X2100M2 and a LSI JBOD card 3801E, and of course the aforementioned
>> J4400.
>> 
>> Where is the most likely culprit?
>> 
>> Any way to get the 3T to show up?
>> 
>> Oh and I did use parted to make a gpt partition not the MSDOS stuff.
>> But even parted still only seems to see 2T
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