Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 23:18:17 +0100 From: "Koen Smits" <kgysmits@gmail.com> To: "Marcel Moolenaar" <xcllnt@mac.com> Cc: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mirror a GPT partition, what label? Message-ID: <b072dc420901081418h76906548r35077d0dc093a490@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <5D9E8EEA-AE0D-42F6-96A9-A9137C39C4FA@mac.com> References: <b072dc420901081135k9e19e6dsca199dd778abdf9b@mail.gmail.com> <5D9E8EEA-AE0D-42F6-96A9-A9137C39C4FA@mac.com>
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Ok, let's give that a shot then. I still don't see the big picture here, but if it works I guess that's fine with me too. On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 22:06, Marcel Moolenaar <xcllnt@mac.com> wrote: > > 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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