Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2008 12:07:38 -0500 From: John Nielsen <john@jnielsen.net> To: John Clement <john.clement@readingroom.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mounting geom partition Message-ID: <20080103120738.ugay77sc8w0o84gw@newwebmail.jnielsen.net> In-Reply-To: <5B88B3834A330D4280D10517A4B7C586F257@dst-ex-01.readingroom.local> References: <5B88B3834A330D4280D10517A4B7C586F257@dst-ex-01.readingroom.local>
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Quoting John Clement <john.clement@readingroom.com>: > Quite some time ago I setup a machine with a couple of 250GB disks in > that were mirrored using geom, although I can't remember if I mounted it > as 1x 250GB partition or several smaller ones. The machine they were in > died, and I kept hold of one of the two disks so I could restore the > data. I'm now at that point and it occurs to me that I don't know for > sure how to remount it. > > Before I plug it in and accidentally write over the partition table or > something, I just wanted to check with someone that what I'm thinking is > about right. Having been going over the documentation again and from > what I remember the partition table should still be there (fdisk should > tell me this) and I should, in theory, be able to simply mount the > partition(s) as regular filesystem(s), is this correct? > > Thanks in advance! That's correct. Additionally, if you have the gmirror kernel module loaded it will recognize the mirror component(s) and you will be able to access it/them as (degraded) gmirror devices. JN
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