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Subject: Re: Gmirror question
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On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 11:34:25AM +0100, Tom Judge wrote:
> Guido van Rooij wrote:
> >On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 11:07:14AM +0100, Tom Judge wrote:
> >  
> >>Guido van Rooij wrote:
> >>    
> >>>Is it possible to use gmirror to mirror a single BSD partition?
> >>>If not: is it possible with other tools?
> >>>      
> >>Yes it is possible, I found this site had very good examples of setting 
> >>it up:
> >>
> >>http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/mirror/
> >>
> >>    
> >
> >This only documents how to set it up on an entire disk or on a slice.
> >
> >-Guido
> The instructions for mirroring a slice can be modified slightly (by 
> using the correct devices) to do mirror a single partition. 

Please tell me then how these modified instructions look.
I still do not know how to reserve the last sector of the partition. 
I can create 1-sector holes using bsdlabel, but I'm not sure this
would be the way to go...

-Guido