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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>
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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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