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Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2004 21:20:42 +0100
From: Mark Frasa <bsd@frasa.net>
To: Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org>
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On 2004.11.08 17:45:40 +0000, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 08, 2004 at 03:40:05PM +0100, Michael Riexinger wrote:
> +> Now a last question: For setting up gmirror on my 2 hd's (the first 
> +> contained a fresh freebsd installation), I had to boot from cd, using 
> +> the fixit cd, chrooting a bit for loading gmirror etc. Is there an 
> +> easier way for doing this? First i tried using the single user mode but 
> +> there was an operation not permitted when i tried to do a 'gmirror 
> +> label'. Can I for example say: Create a mirror on ad1 with the data on 
> +> ad0, wait till it's built, reboot the machine from the gmirror and then 
> +> insert ad0? 
> 
> Unfortunately, gmirror and other GEOM classes are not supported by our
> installer.
> 
> The safest way to do what you want is to:
> 
> 	# gmirror label <name> ad1
> 	create slices and partitions on /dev/mirror/<name>
> 	create file system
> 	copy data from ad0 to <name>
> 	change /etc/fstab to boot from /dev/mirror/<name>s1a or something
> 	reboot
> 	# gmirror insert <name> ad0
> 
> -- 
> Pawel Jakub Dawidek                       http://www.FreeBSD.org
> pjd@FreeBSD.org                           http://garage.freebsd.pl
> FreeBSD committer                         Am I Evil? Yes, I Am!


Hello,

After trying to setup gvinum for 2 weeks, i ran into problems which even Lukas Ertl couldn't solve.

Now i am trying to setup geom_mirror, when i do the above things:

"gmirror label data ad1"

/dev/mirror is not available.

Why is this? Am i missing something or what?


Cheers Mark.