Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 17:11:09 -0500 (EST) From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: dmehler26@woh.rr.com Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: format slice from commandline Message-ID: <200503112211.j2BMB9504745@clunix.cl.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <000a01c52684$6a892ac0$0800a8c0@satellite> from "dave" at Mar 11, 2005 04:51:01 PM
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> Please post to the list and not privately. > Hello, > I'm trying to add a second drive to a 5.3 system in preparation to > gmirror raid1 the box. My problem is i'm having a heck of a time with > sysinstall, it doesn't want to put an a partition on the second drive, so i > thought about doing it manually, fdisk, disklabel, newfs, etc. About the > only thing i've got working is a single slice on drive2 which is ad2 btw, Probably it should be ad2s1. That may make bsdlabel be unhappy. > active i believe. The two drives are identical in size 15 gb drives, the > master drive with a single fbsd slice and six partitions in it including c. > I have tried to duplicate this information with disklabel piping to a file > then loading that file on to drive2, which gives me an error about partition > c lengths being wrong. Partition c length should be the size of the slice. Look at what the block counts are. ////jerry > I was wondering you mentioned onlist you do this kind of stuff, if you > could give me a procedure or a web page, the man pages are quite confusing. > Thanks a lot. > Dave. > >
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