Date: Sat, 06 Nov 2010 12:05:32 +0100 From: Dick Hoogendijk <dick@nagual.nl> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dying disk Message-ID: <4CD5367C.4000002@nagual.nl> In-Reply-To: <4CD527C9.7010901@infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <4CD52176.1030903@nagual.nl> <4CD527C9.7010901@infracaninophile.co.uk>
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On 6-11-2010 11:02, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 06/11/2010 09:35, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: >> My system disk is dying. No problem here. I know how to move a FreeBSD >> system to new hardware. I have a question though about my GEOM mirror. >> The system now had one geom mirror consisting of two 1Tb drives. How can >> I move that mirror over to the Fbsd system on the new hardware. I guess >> I don't know the right steps to take on a new fbsd system for an >> existing geom mirror. Any help is welcome. > Do you mean physically moving over the disk hardware behind the gmirror > from one machine to another? Thanks for the answer so far. No, I don't intend to buy a new system. I'll just replace the old system drive with a new one in the same system. If I understand you corrrectly it will be enough to have geom_load set on this new fbsd install to have FreeBSD load (and create) the existing geom mirror I now already have?
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