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Date:      Mon, 20 Nov 2006 09:03:57 +0000
From:      matthew_buckland@wordbank.com(Matt Buckland)
To:        Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        freebsd-geom@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: gconcat, convert manual to automatic
Message-ID:  <20061120090356.GA11952@wordbank.com>
In-Reply-To: <20061117224624.GL63195@garage.freebsd.pl>
References:  <20061115102951.GA14794@wordbank.com> <20061117224624.GL63195@garage.freebsd.pl>

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> You cannot directly convert from manual configuration to automatic
> configuration, because automatic mode uses on-disk metadata, which is
> placed in last sector of every component.
> Doing 'gconcat label' on components with file system overwritten some
> sectors, which could corrupt your file system and also components are
> now one sectors smaller, so everything after first component moved a
> bit. You should try manual configuration again and dump/restore your
> data or stay with manual configuration if your file system is not
> corrupted.
> 
> -- 
> Pawel Jakub Dawidek                       http://www.wheel.pl
> pjd@FreeBSD.org                           http://www.FreeBSD.org
> FreeBSD committer                         Am I Evil? Yes, I Am!

OK, I'll do that. Thankyou for clarifying that.



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