Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2013 20:10:24 +0100 From: Andy Zammy <andyzammy@googlemail.com> To: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: failed to create gmirror with the handbook instructions Message-ID: <CANuHMWOecpe6Om77p-BKAUVypUx=5nTG18WuhKJE3KHLaBqMOQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CANuHMWMtMcj_ShgcvzmPyJOAH_gLoSp=mh4Q=ABYtx3VFtA3zw@mail.gmail.com> References: <CANuHMWNBToJsPiXzGpJuv77z50aYkdiNnNJy_oz3kMwtqx23eQ@mail.gmail.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1310071825200.94688@wonkity.com> <CANuHMWMtMcj_ShgcvzmPyJOAH_gLoSp=mh4Q=ABYtx3VFtA3zw@mail.gmail.com>
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I On 8 October 2013 01:31, Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> wrote: > On Tue, 8 Oct 2013, Andy Zammy wrote: > > Hi, >> >> I used the second section of the handbook (20.4) to create a gmirror. In >> my >> particular setup I had a 1GB /, 6GB swap, 1GB /tmp and the rest of the 1TB >> drive was left for /usr >> >> I had to deviate from the handbook when it came to running the dump + >> restore commands, as the dump failed due to an issue with the journalling. >> To get around this problem, I dropped into single user mode, so I could >> remount root as read-only. The dump commands then worked. It specified in >> the handbook to restart the machine, and boot from ada1. >> >> It was at this point that I noticed something wasn't quite right. There >> was >> a spew of 'not found/no such file or directory' messages. These were all >> trying to reference libs and binaries that live in /usr. >> >> I boot into single user mode, and upon checking the other partitions, I >> notice that /tmp and /usr are empty, apart from a .snap file, and the >> restoresymtable file. >> >> Please could someone help me troubleshoot this problem? Let me know if you >> need any more info, and I'll post it up asap. >> > > dump does not work reliably on filesystems with SUJ enabled. Turn off SUJ > on the filesystems to be dumped by booting in single-user mode and running > tunefs -j disable /dev/ada0whatever > > Do each filesystem, then use dump. >
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