Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2007 01:53:22 +0200 From: Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org> To: Sean Bruno <sbruno@miralink.com> Cc: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RAID 1 configuration failure(Provider Too Small) Message-ID: <20070705235322.GB950@garage.freebsd.pl> In-Reply-To: <468D411D.8070400@miralink.com> References: <468D3C0B.8070203@miralink.com> <20070705184811.GA950@garage.freebsd.pl> <468D411D.8070400@miralink.com>
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--hQiwHBbRI9kgIhsi Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 12:06:05PM -0700, Sean Bruno wrote: > Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote: > >On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 11:44:27AM -0700, Sean Bruno wrote: > > =20 > >>I'm trying to setup a 2 disk RAID 1 on my Dell PE 1850 between two iden= tical Seagate SCSI drives with the howto at:=20 > >>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= =2E The drives are=20 > >>reporting exactly the same size according to fdisk(see below). Any ide= as here? > >> =20 > > > >fdisk? You are operating on raw disks, so it doesn't matter what > >fdisk(8) reports. Compare disk sizes with diskinfo(8). > > > > =20 > Ah...thanks! That makes more sense. I guess I'll re-install on the smal= ler drive and then mirror to the larger one? Does that sound reasonable? >=20 > desdemona# diskinfo da0 da1 > da0 512 73407868928 143374744 8924 255 63 > da1 512 73407820800 143374650 8924 255 63 Yes, you can always insert bigger disk. --=20 Pawel Jakub Dawidek http://www.wheel.pl pjd@FreeBSD.org http://www.FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer Am I Evil? Yes, I Am! --hQiwHBbRI9kgIhsi Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFGjYRyForvXbEpPzQRAp8BAJwJmTGzcGI4lZ3u0LYP8mufCUpq/wCfcFW/ OIb9lm1NHg2vIKk3Qb07JlE= =jFIl -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --hQiwHBbRI9kgIhsi--
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