Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 17:36:42 -0500 From: Andy Firman <andy@firman.us> To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Subject: bsdlabel problem for gmirror Message-ID: <20050224223641.GC15112@music>
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I am following this guide exactly on 5.3-stable: http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/mirror/ and I am using 2 fresh Western Digital WD800JBRTL 80GB drives. The first time I did the gmirror "Approach 1: Whole Disk" it worked having one drive on ad0 and the other on ad2. Quick first question: Having each drive on a different controller is preferable right? The howto has the drives on ad0 and ad1 which would be same controller. The first time was practice. I have just failed to do it again 5 times in a row and I am really, really frustrated. I am most likely making a big mistake at this point: bsdlabel -e /dev/mirror/gm0s1 # create custom partitions So my second question is when you start "a" partition at offset 16, partitions "a" and "b" overlap. So how would you recommend making them NOT overlap? -------------------------------------- This is what the bsdlabel is/was for ad0s1: bash-2.05b# bsdlabel ad0s1 # /dev/ad0s1: 8 partitions: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a: 10485760 0 4.2BSD 2048 16384 28552 b: 4194304 10485760 swap c: 156296322 0 unused 0 0 # "raw" part, don't edit d: 20971520 14680064 4.2BSD 2048 16384 28552 e: 120644738 35651584 4.2BSD 2048 16384 28552 ----------------------------------------- THIS IS REAL ONE for gm0s1 that I made and saved with no complaints: # /dev/mirror/gm0s1: 8 partitions: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a: 10485744 16 4.2BSD 2048 16384 28552 b: 4194304 10485760 swap c: 156296322 0 unused 0 0 # "raw" part, don't edit d: 20971520 14680064 4.2BSD 2048 16384 28552 e: 120644738 35651584 4.2BSD 2048 16384 28552 --------------------------------------------- Thanks for any help. -Andy
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