From owner-freebsd-geom@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 9 17:04:59 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59C57106567D for ; Fri, 9 May 2008 17:04:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from news@nermal.rz1.convenimus.net) Received: from dd17730.kasserver.com (dd17730.kasserver.com [85.13.138.103]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 196438FC12 for ; Fri, 9 May 2008 17:04:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from news@nermal.rz1.convenimus.net) Received: from nermal.rz1.convenimus.net (sub87-230-112-207.he-dsl.de [87.230.112.207]) by dd17730.kasserver.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 916A21802C034 for ; Fri, 9 May 2008 18:54:09 +0200 (CEST) Received: by nermal.rz1.convenimus.net (Postfix, from userid 8) id 697E015254; Fri, 9 May 2008 18:29:21 +0200 (CEST) To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Path: not-for-mail From: Christian Baer Newsgroups: gmane.os.freebsd.devel.geom Date: Fri, 9 May 2008 18:29:21 +0200 (CEST) Organization: Convenimus Projekt Lines: 29 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: sunny.rz1.convenimus.net X-Trace: nermal.rz1.convenimus.net 1210350561 93203 192.168.100.5 (9 May 2008 16:29:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@convenimus.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 9 May 2008 16:29:21 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.1 (FreeBSD/6.3-STABLE (sparc64)) Subject: Keeping gmirror and geli after a reinstall X-BeenThere: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GEOM-specific discussions and implementations List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 09 May 2008 17:04:59 -0000 Hello folks! I have really done it! I managed to absolutely screw up the FreeBSD installation on my Sun. That happens if you don't watch what you are doing and install stuff via the ports *without* portupgrade. Now several apps won't start anymore and give really strange errors when they try. :-) That makes a real mess of your system. :-) Thankfully, mutt and slrn are not among these apllications. Ok, this is FreeBSD not Windows, so it would probably be possible to fix the installtion. However, it would probably be less work to reinstall the whole thing (first I have to *find* the stuff causing the problems) and besides, this is a good excuse to upgrade to 7.0. :-) Now, to the actual question... This machine has 2 gmirrors and both are encrypted with geli. Setting these up and blanking them is a real pain, so I was wondering if I could just leave them as they are and keep using them after the reinstall. The partitions on the drives will not need to be changed, so there is no reason to clear them. Needless to say, I *will* be making a backup of the data on the mirror before I start with this. However, if I know in advance that this will not work (for example because geli and/or gmirror changed too much since 6.3), I won't bother trying to reuse them but will just recreate them as well. Has anyone tried this before? Regards, Chris