From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 19 19:24:38 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE47B16A402 for ; Thu, 19 Apr 2007 19:24:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from xrayv19@yahoo.com) Received: from web58105.mail.re3.yahoo.com (web58105.mail.re3.yahoo.com [68.142.236.128]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B596E13C483 for ; Thu, 19 Apr 2007 19:24:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from xrayv19@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 15090 invoked by uid 60001); 19 Apr 2007 19:24:37 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-ID; b=gEpPrpq3AhUrQMR3dcYUde4FT/Qo/P5rqpZyhSBTGG97pF6YOzNn+5foKR/6pMe/O3Jt2HQzPZ5ThcsIgwSM/O92iEB6/TbnbWi/78U9CQPJtG4o5/qUXqI3UrfkADknNiUBDMvpUBeTx8zXcjZxjUu2XRBcbZUOUQZf5tow+SE=; X-YMail-OSG: ZBPGo8wVM1mBgizAhjOSuM9XImSQbwasjLgecC3mnRnMF2nMOKeD_n9_CihMePxYYyclB0d9Csbl5JyMW7RK3ImCPqHysJPBsh0bwm8k9jzx2V8Zd152qF3ZdlIBcadm Received: from [131.191.24.2] by web58105.mail.re3.yahoo.com via HTTP; Thu, 19 Apr 2007 12:24:36 PDT Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 12:24:36 -0700 (PDT) From: L Goodwin To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <14876.14778.qm@web58105.mail.re3.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Samba and RAID 1 using gmirror on 2 new disks X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 19:24:38 -0000 Hello. I have a server with 3 SCSI drives. FreeBSD is installed on da0 (4.3GB), and da1 and da2 (both identical 9GB drives) are to be used in a RAID 1 array for file storage on a LAN with Windows XP and Vista clients, using Samba to share the filesystem on da1. Backups will be taken from da2. Drives da1 and da2 are currently "unused" (reclaimed from a Windows server). I have not done anything to prepare these 2 drives yet. I also have not configured Samba yet. Please walk me through the process of setting up a FreeBSD 6.2 fileserver given these conditions? I tried configuring the RAID1 array using the following sources, but got judging from the errors I got, it looks like I need to prepare da1/da2 first: http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2005/11/10/FreeBSD_Basics.html http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/geom-mirror.html Both assume you only have 2 drives and want to mirror the drive containing FreeBSD. I only want to mirror the data drive da1, and would appreciate a concise set of steps for doing this right the first time. Thanks! --------------------------------- Ahhh...imagining that irresistible "new car" smell? Check outnew cars at Yahoo! Autos.