Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2009 23:52:46 +0100 From: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk> To: Tom Munro Glass <gentoo@tmgcon.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to add a slice and partition to a mirror Message-ID: <20090709225246.GA91508@mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <200907101012.56788.gentoo@tmgcon.com> References: <200907101012.56788.gentoo@tmgcon.com>
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On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 10:12:56AM +1200, Tom Munro Glass wrote: > I have a FreeBSD 7.2 system that had two 37GB mirrored SCSI drives. These > contained a single slice filling the disk with separate partitions for swap, > /, /var, /usr and /home. > > Yesterday one of the drives had a catastrophic failure - no problem, the > system still worked on one drive as it is supposed to. I have purchased two > new 74GB drives because I need more space. > > With just the working 37GB drive connected, I ran: > > # gmirror forget gm0 > > Then I connected one of the new 74GB drives and ran: > > # gmirror insert gm0 /dev/da1 > > and the mirror rebuilt itself correctly, but of course only half of the new > drive is being used. > > I've now removed the 37GB drive and run "gmirror forget gm0" again and the > system is running on the new half used 74GB drive. > > How do I define a new slice and partition to fill the second half of this > drive? what is the output of "gpart gm0" ? -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 928 8233 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423
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