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Date:      Fri, 3 Jul 2009 22:53:25 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
To:        Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
Cc:        Drew Tomlinson <drew@mykitchentable.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Fix It CD, bsdlabel, and /dev?
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.0907032252530.15086@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
In-Reply-To: <20090703220406.d07ca7b4.freebsd@edvax.de>
References:  <4A4E5669.8070308@mykitchentable.net> <20090703220406.d07ca7b4.freebsd@edvax.de>

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>> However /dev/ad6s1a and /dev/ad8s1a do not exist. I do have entries such
>> as /dev/ad6a and/dev/ad8a but gmirror doesn't like those. What must I do
>> the get them to show after I've labeled?
>
> If you have /dev/ad[68]a, it indicates that you haven't created a
> slice on those disks, instead you created one partition (a) on
> each of the disks.

there is completely NO REASON to create slices at all, unless you want to 
use windoze on the same drive.

i don't have slices on any of my FreeBSD systems



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