Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 16:25:40 +0200 From: User Gandalf <gandalf@messias.qhigh.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: gmirror and partitioning Message-ID: <44649AE4.5000006@messias.qhigh.com>
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Hello! I would like to install a new FreeBSD 6.1 system on a computer that has two SATA drives. They are the same type. I would like to use gmirror. I read the handbook here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/geom-mirror.html But there is something I do not understand. The handbook suggest that I install FreeBSD on only two partitions: a swap and the root fs. But I would like to create many partitions. I think I can do it the following way: 1. Install a basic system on drive /dev/ad0, using two smaller partitions (2GB for swap and 10GB for the root fs). 2. Create the /dev/mirror/gm device on /dev/ad1, as suggested by the handbook 3. When doing 'bsdlabel -wB /dev/mirror/gm0s1', I can allocate gm0s1a and gm0s1b with the same sizes (10GB and 2GB) but I can also add other partitions for /usr, /tmp and /var. Can I? 4. Then I can copy the whole system from ad0s1a to /dev/mirror/gm0s1a, and continue the installation, following the instructions in the handbook 5. Finally, after I added /dev/ad0 to /dev/gm0 and I'm done with synchronization, I would like to format the additional partitions, dump and restore my current /usr, /tmp and /var directories, change my fstab and reboot... Will this work? Sorry for the dumb question, but I have never done this before. The handbook only suggest that I install FreeBSD on one / partition only, but it does not tell how to create new partitions after mirroring. Thanks, Laszlo
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