From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 4 08:14:02 2011 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 6D3DC1065672 for ; Sat, 4 Jun 2011 08:14:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kraduk@gmail.com) Received: from mail-gx0-f182.google.com (mail-gx0-f182.google.com [209.85.161.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A6A38FC08 for ; Sat, 4 Jun 2011 08:14:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gxk28 with SMTP id 28so1564669gxk.13 for ; Sat, 04 Jun 2011 01:14:01 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=ASBYdd8FjrbbMBqTeqfTPRs+QmP4UV2S1Vry6Ofby5I=; b=CuF7vTTeAW0Wl88hbReLJIT6EQXXYTeXjWwFvtl0GhdSWKihRuWfBzJthgngwO0ctO 0m9MpMyNgxW1Kd7qN1p34780NHqp2Nf3Qynvhac1r9RQw4587ZSmXngGFvCAc4pRvI14 rvhJzNTRKM02+GVS7E5ISr9nTnXDcQXL5lMmA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=VUvF/p0RX3kT1bkradEKAMTLZ6cqONFDCsBcrUzrxqOJMt8eITKpiukq1V0ia1qHHJ wKQD6F3FtWziNCAEapN0iLqw4dck2wCDB2KuJlKZbewElns/krTFMPN9371rps4PgjYi Am5vihYErNbBjedXY8ngCc9vCq4Iv6EZQ0J7k= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.236.202.67 with SMTP id c43mr3768611yho.80.1307175239453; Sat, 04 Jun 2011 01:13:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.236.136.167 with HTTP; Sat, 4 Jun 2011 01:13:59 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2011 09:13:59 +0100 Message-ID: From: krad To: levitch@iglou.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: failure to create zfs storage pool 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: Sat, 04 Jun 2011 08:14:02 -0000 On 3 June 2011 21:41, wrote: > Hello, > > After getting a couple of Hitachi 1T 7200 rpm drives, it seemed > like time for ZFS on FreeBSD82, having not had Z file system > subsequent to retiring whatever OpenSolaris was around. > > Basically, I followed this article: > > /doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/remote-install/installation.html > > Previous to this, I had been using sysinstall. > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad4 count=2 > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad6 count=2 > > fdisk -BI ad4 > fdisk -BI ad6 > > bsdlabel -wB /dev/ad4s1 > bsdlabel -wB /dev/ad6s1 > > ------------------------------------------------- > bsdlabel -e /dev/ad4s1 > > a: 1G 16 4.2BSD 1024 8192 0 > b: 5G * swap > c: blah,blah > d: 20G * 4.2BSD 2048 16384 0 > e: 20G * 4.2BSD 2048 16384 0 > f: * * unused 0 0 > ------------------------------------------------- > > bsdlabel /dev/ad4s1 > /tmp/bsdlabel.txt && bsdlabel -R \ > /dev/ad6s1 /tmp/bsdlabel.txt > > Now it was way past midnight, I cannot recall but might have run > this: > > gmirror label -nb round-robin gm0 ad4s1 ad6s1 > > I ran these: > > gmirror label root ad4s1a ad6s1a > gmirror label var ad4s1d ad6s1d > gmirror label usr ad4s1e ad6s1e > gmirror label -F swap ad4s1b ad6s1b > gmirror load > > newfs -b 8192 -f 1024 /dev/mirror/root > newfs /dev/mirror/var > newfs /dev/mirror/usr > > mount /dev/mirror/root /mnt > mkdir /mnt/var /mnt/usr > mount /dev/mirror/var /mnt/var > mount /dev/mirror/usr /mnt/usr > > So I got the files with 'ftp passive' and followed the article all > to the 'reboot' command. Seemed okay. > > Now at the next page of the article: > > /doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/remote-install/zfs.html > > Having read several articles and the zpool manual page, I still > have failed to create any kind of ZFS storage pool. > > Darrel > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > are you trying to do zfs root or just have a freebsd system with a zpool? You could take the real easy way of getting zfsroot, and install freebsd via pc-bsd install cd and that would do all the hard work