Date: Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:15:24 -0700 From: Drew Tomlinson <drew@mykitchentable.net> To: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> Cc: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fix It CD, bsdlabel, and /dev? Message-ID: <4A4E82FC.3000802@mykitchentable.net> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0907032252530.15086@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> References: <4A4E5669.8070308@mykitchentable.net> <20090703220406.d07ca7b4.freebsd@edvax.de> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0907032252530.15086@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
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Wojciech Puchar wrote: >>> 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 I must admit I am confused by slices and partitions. I only want to use FreeBSD on this box. It has 4 drives detected as follows: ad6 - 750 GB ad8 - 500 GB ad12 - 500 GB ad14 - 500 GB My thought is to break the disks up as so: ad6 a: 500M b: 500M d: 465G e: 225G (rest of drive) ad8 a: 500M b: 500M d: 465G (rest of drive) ad12 b: 1000M d: 465G (rest of drive) ad14 b: 1000M d: 465G (rest of drive) Then to install, I want to use gmirror and zfs as so: / - mirror ad6a and ad8a swap - all the b: partitions (if that's the right term) for a total of 3 GB swap. zfs - make a raid1z zpool with ad6d, ad8d, ad12d, and ad14d. in this pool I will create /usr and /var ad6e will just be extra space for some other use. So does my plan make sense? And if so, how can I best accomplish it? Thanks, Drew -- Be a Great Magician! Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com
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