From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 11 23:26:43 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 404AA16A515 for ; Wed, 11 May 2005 23:26:43 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.adventuras.no (mail.adventuras.no [194.63.250.215]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5095B43D78 for ; Wed, 11 May 2005 23:26:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lars@adventuras.no) Received: from cm-84.118.177.041.chello.no (cm-84.118.177.041.chello.no [84.118.177.41]) (authenticated bits=0) by mail.adventuras.no (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j4BNQQFU017153 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO) for ; Thu, 12 May 2005 01:26:26 +0200 Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 01:26:25 +0200 From: Lars Kristiansen To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <4282879F.3010104@donnacha.com> References: <200505112057.j4BKv20h011968@clunix.cl.msu.edu> <4282879F.3010104@donnacha.com> X-Mailer: Mulberry/3.1.6 (Linux/x86) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Adventuras-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-Adventuras: du kan filtrere etter AdvSpamScore over 5-10 X-Adventuras-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=-4.608, required 6, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -3.30, AWL 1.29, BAYES_00 -2.60) X-MailScanner-From: lars@adventuras.no Subject: Re: I need further HDD advice before submitting order. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 23:26:43 -0000 > Jerry McAllister wrote: > > One small modification, as someone noted, if you make a vinum or > mirror, > > you will probably not want the chunk of swap to be on the front of > > the second drive. So, you can make it last without too much > difficult. > > Chuck Swiger wrote: > > If you do want to mirror the boot disk, you want the first partition to > > be bootable and resemble the first disk, which means you do not want to > > put swap first on the 200GB drive. Hi, just a comment on one of the issues: For what its worth, I have two identical disks mirrored with gvinum, and where swap is first on the disk. As an example, here is bsdlabel-output for one: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a: 2097152 2097417 4.2BSD 0 0 0 b: 2097152 0 swap c: 78172227 0 unused 0 0 # "raw" part, don't edit d: 76075075 2097152 vinum Some of this is described in in the vinum section of The Handbook. Sorry but I cannot remember the details when installing, so I will refrain from giving detailed advice. This setup has worked well at least for me; the system can boot from either disk in case of a diskfault. It does of course not cover a failed update attempt or a quick configuration change gone bad. So I am going to try that /altroot advice too. -- Med vennlig hilsen Lars Kristiansen A D V E N T U R A S Tlf: 22 20 59 90 Fax: 22 20 59 91 lars@adventuras.no http://www.adventuras.no