From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 1 22:03:54 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76465106566B for ; Mon, 1 Feb 2010 22:03:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sir_dog@onet.com.ua) Received: from onet.com.ua (mail.onet.com.ua [195.69.244.5]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF6168FC18 for ; Mon, 1 Feb 2010 22:03:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from onet.com.ua (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by onet.com.ua (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id o11LWsfT082566 for ; Mon, 1 Feb 2010 23:32:54 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from sir_dog@onet.com.ua) From: "Pavel Greenberg" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2010 23:32:54 +0200 Message-Id: <20100201213202.M96659@onet.com.ua> In-Reply-To: <7B9397B189EB6E46A5EE7B4C8A4BB7CB381B232C@MBX03.exg5.exghost.com> References: <7B9397B189EB6E46A5EE7B4C8A4BB7CB381B232C@MBX03.exg5.exghost.com> X-Mailer: OpenWebMail 2.53 X-OriginatingIP: 79.171.127.247 (sir_dog) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-u X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.92/10348/Mon Feb 1 20:43:19 2010 on mail.onet.com.ua X-Virus-Status: Clean Subject: Re: Using GPT partitions with gmirror X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 01 Feb 2010 22:03:54 -0000 On Mon, 1 Feb 2010 15:20:40 -0600, Peter Steele wrote > Because we have large drives (>2TB) we're switching to gpart to > partition our disks. I had previously been using fdisk/bsdlabel and > setting up specially configured partition tables that would work > with gmirror. This involved faking the size of the c partition to > make sure there was space for gmirror to store its metadata. Now > that I'm using gpart I'm wondering if any of this trickery is > needed? Can I simply create my partitions with gpart then create > mirrored partitions using these partitions? I've tried this and it > seems to work fine but I'm just being cautious. http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2009-July/201891.html