Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 13:49:36 -0500 From: Vladislav Sekulic <vlad.sekulic@utoronto.ca> To: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Adding partitions to gmirror device Message-ID: <20090127134936.02bl16g2s4g4o8gw@webmail.utoronto.ca> In-Reply-To: <20090127155314.GC91587@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> References: <20090126220411.b9c04ypy0wo04wkk@webmail.utoronto.ca> <20090127155314.GC91587@gizmo.acns.msu.edu>
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Thanks, Wojciech and Jerry, for your help. Quoting Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu>: > First of all, you say that you have allocated 27GB of 238GB available. > Is that 238GB in the existing slice - gm0s1 or is it outside of > that slice? (NOTE, the 's' in the device name stands for slice - > so it is slice 1 of a possible 4). > It's 27GB used within the existing slice; gm0s1 spans the entire disk. > It could be helpful if you posted you /etc/fstab file and also > what is printed if you do: bsdlabel gm0s1 or, if it is what > they call 'dangerously dedicated' do: bsdlabel gm0 > $ sudo bsdlabel /dev/mirror/gm0s1 # /dev/mirror/gm0s1: 8 partitions: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a: 1048576 0 4.2BSD 2048 16384 8 b: 8320016 1048576 swap c: 488375937 0 unused 0 0 # "raw" part, don't edit d: 2097152 9368592 4.2BSD 2048 16384 28528 e: 10485760 11465744 4.2BSD 2048 16384 28528 f: 41943040 21951504 4.2BSD 2048 16384 28528 > If it is all in that gmos1 slice, then just use bsdlabel on that > slice to add the rest to another partition within that slice. Just > boot from something other than that mirror, make sure nothing > in gm0 is mounted and then do: bsdlabel -e gm0s1 and fix it > up as needed. > Great, makes sense. I'll boot from the FreeBSD livecd and do this. Thanks again! Vlad -- Vladislav Sekulic Research Computing System Administrator Systems and Networks Research Group Dept. of Computer Science, University of Toronto http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~pocsys
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