From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 19 03:21:19 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E8AD106566B for ; Thu, 19 Nov 2009 03:21:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from glen.j.barber@gmail.com) Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com (fg-out-1718.google.com [72.14.220.155]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7E938FC0A for ; Thu, 19 Nov 2009 03:21:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id e12so2265486fga.13 for ; Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:21:17 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=bBmq67EKkznK8vaqcMhBEjQf8lvLyGGM+yFF3r2WQ7U=; b=ku3UU8Dqf+Y9FT44znBg6YA9a/AcnAPWcUWEeDP+9p8QU4ZJAWQgPd7kmr+tujpoCv nt29Ei2YZ/ii4Ws8K5CpeJD5+ABmLxStWZs7KSyPsGn8Rr8J3cBwfWUWiZRnz3opdkoD 8BIaQ1z8Cs49A4BdsiYIxqdf304xK7OuATTYs= 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=i8tKPZAU9hqj2gjHHVGQvlcdvF9dnxYVK502q4bH+hsivP3I7/Qg655SG5e1F/S44f EJW3y8ipiH2K2yz1lTjnXWWXeErCUo+hGFF6PIqIUhSSNas+dm0wMPhen1vsMKmKLcXG X7SIbICwDoNuISU+hze7t+qfzv2jA1d1fx9ro= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.223.17.65 with SMTP id r1mr1549678faa.5.1258600877712; Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:21:17 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <4B04B50E.6070504@lazlarlyricon.com> References: <4ad871310911181835n7b72dde1o22c73ec86dcc6c12@mail.gmail.com> <4B04B50E.6070504@lazlarlyricon.com> Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:21:17 -0500 Message-ID: <4ad871310911181921s14c4d622r2413e40aaed818e7@mail.gmail.com> From: Glen Barber To: Rolf Nielsen , amvandemore@gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Loader does not load after reinstall with previous mirrored disk attached 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: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 03:21:19 -0000 Hi Rolf and Adam, Since you both seemingly responded with the same solution, I'll respond including the more verbose response: On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 10:01 PM, Rolf Nielsen wrote: > > I recently, successfully, broke a gmirror by simply issuing gmirror clear on > all the disks, three in my case. Since gmirror stores metadata in the last > sector of the disks (according to the gmirror man page) and everything else > is untouched, issuing a gmirror clear reverts the disks to single disk > usage, and since the data isn't striped, the system will be able to read the > data and mount the filesystem(s). > This makes sense, and hopefully I will not have to try it for some time, next time I need to break a mirror, I will try 'clear'-ing it first. Thanks, -- Glen Barber