Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 21:52:22 -0500 From: Mark Bucciarelli <mark@gaiahost.coop> To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to recover a gmirror from a disaster Message-ID: <20051214025222.GB2708@rabbit> In-Reply-To: <20051213232008.GA749@garage.freebsd.pl> References: <20051213131637.GC2188@rabbit> <20051213232008.GA749@garage.freebsd.pl>
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On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 12:20:08AM +0100, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote: > Could you add kern.geom.mirror.debug=3 to your /boot/loader.conf and > boot again? I'm sorry, with the previous posters help I was able to boot and this error no longer occurs. > +> This is 5.4-RELEASE. > +> > +> The da0 disk is good (I did a surface scan) and I can mount it and > +> backup the data when I put it in bay #2. > +> > +> So ... > +> > +> Did my command in step #6 cause this mess? If so, what should I > +> have used--forget first? > > If da1 was disconnected you should get an error, that mirror is not > complete. Yes, 'forget' is the right command. Yes, as is documented in the man page. > +> How can I get this disk to boot again? > > Actually you can simply: > > # gmirror label gm0 da0 > > No data will be lost. You can also boot from da0 directly. No data loss. My error was not using the forget command. m
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