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Date:      Thu, 18 May 2006 01:27:15 +0200
From:      Joerg Pernfuss <elessar@bsdforen.de>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: BSDInstaller snapshot
Message-ID:  <20060518012715.1ec84c37@loki>
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On Wed, 17 May 2006 12:46:41 +0300
Rostislav Krasny <rosti.bsd@gmail.com> wrote:

> Certainly. I'm only wondering now, why it wasn't fixed in sysinstall
> during so many years?
No idea. One simply needs to know, you have to set up your the discs
manually if you intend to, eg gmirror the / partition.
I think on geom@ Pawel once explained why this wasn't changed in
sysinstall, but I can't find the mail.

> And had those hacks in UFS and Swap been made
> because of sysinstall or because of something else?
These are historically grown.

> By the way, how could one change offset of first bsd partitions on
> already installed FreeBSD without destroying it?
You can't. dump(1) and restore(1), that's all you've got.

Mirroring partitions on a already running FreeBSD is counter-intuitive
anyway.

Set the second disc to sane values, dump your partitions, set up the
mirrors/... in single-user mode (even for / but here only with the a
partition of the second disc), restore your dumps, boot the second
disc, add and sync a from the first disc.
Utilizing `tunefs -L` and glabel for /etc/fstab eases the pain.

Adding Raid 0/1/3/10 (plain and/or geli encrypted) via geom afterwards
to a fully configured system with wrong offsets is possible (done it
once, don't intend to do it twice), but there are many ways to shoot
your knee-caps while doing so.

	Joerg
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