From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 18 20:28:41 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 48E6C16A4CE for ; Wed, 18 May 2005 20:28:41 +0000 (GMT) Received: from out1.smtp.messagingengine.com (out1.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.25]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A94D443D8F for ; Wed, 18 May 2005 20:28:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from d@donnacha.com) Received: from frontend2.messagingengine.com (frontend2.internal [10.202.2.151]) by frontend1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D019DC90704 for ; Wed, 18 May 2005 16:28:34 -0400 (EDT) X-Sasl-enc: FG9E9T0R24gET/YErsS4sMCwYfKV3mzefdnpNhLYb2BE 1116448112 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (82-41-213-217.cable.ubr12.edin.blueyonder.co.uk [82.41.213.217]) by frontend2.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C1C7570326 for ; Wed, 18 May 2005 16:28:32 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <428BA59C.9020804@donnacha.com> Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 21:29:16 +0100 From: freebsd.org@donnacha.com User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Mirror Partition 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, 18 May 2005 20:28:41 -0000 Hi, another HDD question: If you are getting a hosting center to set up a server with two HDDs, and if the 2nd HDD has a /mirror partition the same size as the 1st HDD, do the guys doing the install need to denote the /mirror partition as being a particular type of partition i.e. in the same way that swap is a particular type of partition. I was originally planning on simply having a normal partition called /mirror created and left empty for a few weeks until I'd learnt more and was able to choose between vinum, gvinum, gmirror or whatever but, if that empty partition needs to be of a certain type, I need to let them know. The key problem, as ever, is that I will only have cmd-line access to the server. Thanks to everyone who helped me to work out the general configuration for my server and apologies for dragging my newbie ass back onto this list with this question. Donnacha