Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2004 16:43:01 +0100 From: Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org> To: Samuel Tardieu <sam@rfc1149.net> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Questions about GEOM and MIRROR Message-ID: <20041227154301.GT787@darkness.comp.waw.pl> In-Reply-To: <2004-12-13-20-20-30%2Btrackit%2Bsam@rfc1149.net> References: <2004-12-13-20-20-30%2Btrackit%2Bsam@rfc1149.net>
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--h/77pM/XNBmEJr8g Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 08:20:30PM +0100, Samuel Tardieu wrote: +> Hi. +>=20 +> I just added two disks (ad4 & ad6, SATA 160Go) to my FreeBSD box. I want= to +> use them in the following configuration: +>=20 +> - ad4s1 & ad6s1: geom mirror of 80Go containing all my precious data (= /, +> /usr, /var, /home) +>=20 +> - ad4s2b: swap +>=20 +> - ad4s2x, ad6s2x: non-important data +>=20 +> On the mirror (ad4s1+ad6s1), I created partitions for /, /tmp, /usr, +> and /var. +>=20 +> Is there any pitfall in doing so? Do I have to be careful to keep extra = space +> somewhere? (such as one sector at the end of ad4s1/ad6s1) +>=20 +> I can't seem to place bootcode at the beginning of the mirror: +>=20 +> # bsdlabel /dev/mirror/precious +> # /dev/mirror/precious: +> 8 partitions: +> # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] +> a: 524288 16 4.2BSD 2048 16384 32776=20 +> c: 167766731 0 unused 0 0 # "raw" part, d= on't edit +> d: 2097152 524304 4.2BSD 2048 16384 28552=20 +> e: 524288 2621456 4.2BSD 2048 16384 32776=20 +> f: 164620971 3145744 4.2BSD 2048 16384 28552=20 +>=20 +> # bsdlabel -B /dev/mirror/precious +> bsdlabel: Geom not found +>=20 +> What does this error mean? It could mean, that there is no such device. Hard to say, as I can't reproduce it here - 'bsdlabel -B' works for me. --=20 Pawel Jakub Dawidek http://www.wheel.pl pjd@FreeBSD.org http://www.FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer Am I Evil? Yes, I Am! --h/77pM/XNBmEJr8g Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFB0C2FForvXbEpPzQRAmyEAJ9gwJs/MBj1ldc//gToVyuxl/yqzQCeIluY YnLITUJSMOw34fRYZDvUJOU= =eScS -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --h/77pM/XNBmEJr8g--
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