From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 4 03:42:41 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 AF478106564A for ; Sat, 4 Jul 2009 03:42:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doug@safeport.com) Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [65.122.17.41]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D0AF8FC12 for ; Sat, 4 Jul 2009 03:42:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doug@safeport.com) Received: from fledge.watson.org (localhost.watson.org [127.0.0.1]) by fledge.watson.org (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n643geLJ003489; Fri, 3 Jul 2009 23:42:40 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from doug@safeport.com) Received: from localhost (doug@localhost) by fledge.watson.org (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) with ESMTP id n643gej3003485; Fri, 3 Jul 2009 23:42:40 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from doug@safeport.com) X-Authentication-Warning: fledge.watson.org: doug owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2009 23:42:40 -0400 (EDT) From: doug@safeport.com X-X-Sender: doug@fledge.watson.org To: Drew Tomlinson In-Reply-To: <4A4E82FC.3000802@mykitchentable.net> Message-ID: References: <4A4E5669.8070308@mykitchentable.net> <20090703220406.d07ca7b4.freebsd@edvax.de> <4A4E82FC.3000802@mykitchentable.net> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.0.1 (fledge.watson.org [127.0.0.1]); Sat, 04 Jul 2009 04:42:40 +0100 (BST) 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 Reply-To: doug@fledge.watson.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 04 Jul 2009 03:42:41 -0000 On Fri, 3 Jul 2009, Drew Tomlinson wrote: > 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: > Try http://www.freebsdwiki.net/ and search for 'disk partitions' Sections on Hard Disk Partition Sizes Partitioning Tips and Tricks should be helpful. You can adapt these concepts to suit how your system is to be used and to take advantage of the hardware you have.