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Date:      Wed, 19 Nov 2003 12:12:37 +0100
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        Josef Karthauser <joe@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Using Geom to mirror root partitions? 
Message-ID:  <62910.1069240357@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 19 Nov 2003 11:05:56 GMT." <20031119110556.GA83112@genius.tao.org.uk> 

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In message <20031119110556.GA83112@genius.tao.org.uk>, Josef Karthauser writes:
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>On Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 09:42:18AM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>> In message <20031115014133.GB31237@genius.tao.org.uk>, Josef Karthauser w=
>rites:
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>> >What's the best way to prepare for this?  Should I leave some
>> >unallocated space at the beginning of the disk so that any magic geom
>> >bits can be inserted later?
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>> Rather:  leave a bit free at the end.
>>=20
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>How much would you recommend I leave?  Proportional to the disk size, or
>just enough space for data structures?

In theory one sector should do fine, but make it a bit more.

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