[OpenIndiana-discuss] Seagate 3000GB Drive only shows 746GB

[Sašo Kiselkov]

On 09/28/2012 01:06 PM, Rainer Heilke wrote:
> Greetings.
> 
> I've connected a Seagate 3000GB HDD to my OpenIndiana oi_151.1.6 X86
> server. But when I try to use it, only 746GB show. Printing the
> partition table from format shows:
> partition> pri
> Current partition table (original):
> Total disk cylinders available: 48722 + 2 (reserved cylinders)
> 
> Part      Tag    Flag     Cylinders         Size Blocks
>   0 unassigned    wm       0                0 (0/0/0)              0
>   1 unassigned    wm       0                0 (0/0/0)              0
>   2     backup    wu       0 - 48721      746.46GB (48722/0/0) 1565437860
>   3 unassigned    wm       0                0 (0/0/0)              0
>   4 unassigned    wm       0                0 (0/0/0)              0
>   5 unassigned    wm       0                0 (0/0/0)              0
>   6 unassigned    wm       0                0 (0/0/0)              0
>   7 unassigned    wm       0                0 (0/0/0)              0
>   8       boot    wu       0 -     0       15.69MB (1/0/0)          32130
>   9 unassigned    wm       0                0 (0/0/0)              0
> 
> format> inq
> Vendor:   ST3000DM
> Product:  001-9YN166
> Revision:
> 
>  Total disk size is 48725 cylinders
>              Cylinder size is 32130 (512 byte) blocks
> 
>                                                Cylinders
>       Partition   Status    Type          Start   End Length    %
>       =========   ======    ============  =====   ===   ====== ===
>           1       Active    Solaris           1  48724 48724    100
> 
> 
> So, how can I get ZFS to see the full 3TB?

Are you trying to use this driver for rpool? If not, you can simply tell
ZFS to use the entire drive, which should bypass any potential
partitioning issues.

Cheers,
--
Saso