From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 3 22:05:01 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FD73106564A for ; Fri, 3 Jul 2009 22:05:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from drew@mykitchentable.net) Received: from smtp2.mc.surewest.net (qsmtp.mc.surewest.net [66.60.130.145]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 640C08FC21 for ; Fri, 3 Jul 2009 22:05:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from drew@mykitchentable.net) Received: (qmail 1569 invoked from network); 3 Jul 2009 14:54:53 -0700 Received: by simscan 1.1.0 ppid: 1563, pid: 1564, t: 2.1558s scanners: regex: 1.1.0 attach: 1.1.0 spam: 3.1.7-deb X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.7-deb (2006-10-05) on smtp2.surewest.net. X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=10.0 tests=none autolearn=disabled version=3.1.7-deb X-Spam-CMAE-Analysis: v=1.0 c=1 a=gLVHMzDRtJIA:10 a=jDt-9pEAAAAA:8 a=NPQQEeup2DQz0Q-GEkkA:9 a=M8qWd5MqxeY6wdUFHn-0VPRzzRQA:4 a=Sllw8v0m4fwA:10 Received: from unknown (HELO blacklamb.mykitchentable.net) (69.62.230.77) by smtp2 with SMTP; 3 Jul 2009 14:54:51 -0700 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (bigdaddy.mykitchentable.net [192.168.1.3]) by blacklamb.mykitchentable.net (Postfix) with ESMTPA id C5FA5165C2D; Fri, 3 Jul 2009 15:04:56 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=simple/simple; d=mykitchentable.net; s=default; t=1246658697; bh=T+FDX7LU4pao27tJzJPaqum3/yJfKE8WwPwoNvJNbRQ=; h=Message-ID:Date:From:MIME-Version:To:CC:Subject:References: In-Reply-To:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=FMX01A4z/f1LdhVncLnICoQsrtnQxSdgPSwFhedpH57hmynUPlAk1dCq4VNGkL99V 5BoCLbIDcez/x9+IhtszlhFxgzCqcs4TKPx9ZNAurOoyxiZBiTos5WMIjVNE/DnBVz DjzBMsK0mMH6pHwUPd2o55rZosc7n0ar+LwEbz+0= Message-ID: <4A4E807D.40007@mykitchentable.net> Date: Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:04:45 -0700 From: Drew Tomlinson User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (Windows/20090605) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Polytropon References: <4A4E5669.8070308@mykitchentable.net> <20090703220406.d07ca7b4.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20090703220406.d07ca7b4.freebsd@edvax.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 090703-0, 07/03/2009), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fix It CD, bsdlabel, and /dev? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 03 Jul 2009 22:05:01 -0000 Polytropon wrote: > On Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:05:13 -0700, Drew Tomlinson wrote: > >> Next I used bsdlabel >> and created 500M a: partitions on two of the drives (ad6 & ad8). >> > ^ > There is no colon after the partition letter. The colon > is used to refer (or change) to the 1st DOS diskette drive. :-) > I'm not sure what you mean here. I showed it as "a:" as that's how bsdlabel reports it when displaying the label 'bsdlabel ad6' for example. >> 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. > I think this was part of my problem. For example, I did 'bsdlabel ad6' instead of 'bsdlabel ad6s1'. Now I have entries such as /dev/ad6s1a and /dev/ad8s1a after using 'bsdlabel -e '. However now I use 'gmirror label root /dev/ad[68]s1a' as in the guide. No error is reported at the command line but /dev/mirror/root is not created either. Any ideas? Thanks, Drew -- Be a Great Magician! Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com