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

[Rainer Heilke]

When I did a zpool create, it built a 744GB pool.

Rainer
On 9/28/2012 4:13 AM, Sašo Kiselkov wrote:
> 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
>

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