Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2007 12:06:05 -0700 From: Sean Bruno <sbruno@miralink.com> To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RAID 1 configuration failure(Provider Too Small) Message-ID: <468D411D.8070400@miralink.com> In-Reply-To: <20070705184811.GA950@garage.freebsd.pl> References: <468D3C0B.8070203@miralink.com> <20070705184811.GA950@garage.freebsd.pl>
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Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote: > On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 11:44:27AM -0700, Sean Bruno wrote: > >> I'm trying to setup a 2 disk RAID 1 on my Dell PE 1850 between two identical Seagate SCSI drives with the howto at: >> http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2005/11/10/FreeBSD_Basics.html >> >> I am able to convert my root drive(da0) to geom and reboot just fine. I am failing when I run: >> >> |*gmirror insert gm0 /dev/da1*| >> >> >> The second step of converting the mirror drive of my RAID1 (da1) fails with the same "Provider da1 too small" error no matter what I attempt to do. The drives are >> reporting exactly the same size according to fdisk(see below). Any ideas here? >> > > fdisk? You are operating on raw disks, so it doesn't matter what > fdisk(8) reports. Compare disk sizes with diskinfo(8). > > Ah...thanks! That makes more sense. I guess I'll re-install on the smaller drive and then mirror to the larger one? Does that sound reasonable? desdemona# diskinfo da0 da1 da0 512 73407868928 143374744 8924 255 63 da1 512 73407820800 143374650 8924 255 63 Sean
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