From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 11 22:11:13 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 710BE16A4CE for ; Fri, 11 Mar 2005 22:11:13 +0000 (GMT) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (clunix.cl.msu.edu [35.9.2.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9ED743D2F for ; Fri, 11 Mar 2005 22:11:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu) Received: (from jerrymc@localhost) by clunix.cl.msu.edu (8.11.7p1+Sun/8.11.7) id j2BMB9504745; Fri, 11 Mar 2005 17:11:09 -0500 (EST) From: Jerry McAllister Message-Id: <200503112211.j2BMB9504745@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: dmehler26@woh.rr.com Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 17:11:09 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <000a01c52684$6a892ac0$0800a8c0@satellite> from "dave" at Mar 11, 2005 04:51:01 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: format slice from commandline 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: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 22:11:13 -0000 > 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. > >