Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2009 13:06:39 -0800 From: Marcel Moolenaar <xcllnt@mac.com> To: Koen Smits <kgysmits@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mirror a GPT partition, what label? Message-ID: <5D9E8EEA-AE0D-42F6-96A9-A9137C39C4FA@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <b072dc420901081135k9e19e6dsca199dd778abdf9b@mail.gmail.com> References: <b072dc420901081135k9e19e6dsca199dd778abdf9b@mail.gmail.com>
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On Jan 8, 2009, at 11:35 AM, Koen Smits wrote: > Hi, > > My new NAS will have the following disk layout: > ad0 -> 2gb CF > ad4 -> 1TB WD Green > ad6 -> 1TB WD Green > > The CF will boot the rig, the 2 1TB disks will be mirrored with ZFS. > No > problem there, did it before. > The problem lies in the swap space, which I want to place at the first > gigabyte of the 1TB disks. The disks will use GPT layout. I want to > gmirror > the first 1GB partition on both disks. How should I accomplish this? > Is it > sufficient to label both partitions 'freebsd'? According to man 8 > gpart > 'freebsd' should not be used when using GPT. Any insight would be > appreciated. Use "freebsd-swap" as the partition type. -- Marcel Moolenaar xcllnt@mac.com
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