Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 17:43:50 +0200 From: "n j" <nino80@gmail.com> To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Subject: Gmirror on a partition of a slice Message-ID: <92bcbda50709120843o6af4bd38v8725be3f5b765b0e@mail.gmail.com>
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Hello, I've originally sent this mail to -questions, but -geom is probably the better place to ask for pointers to any help regarding installing gmirror on a partition of a slice. Here's the problem. Using http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2005/11/10/FreeBSD_Basics.html and http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/mirror/ as pointers, as well as handbook and man pages, I tried to set up gmirror on a partition of a slice the following way (using identical 1Gb disks da0 & da1): 1) install FreeBSD on 1st disk /dev/da0s1a 2) create slice on 2nd disk fdisk -BI /dev/da1 3) bsdlabel -w -B /dev/da1s1 4) edit BSD label to create a ~500 Mb partition for gmirror a: 1000000 16 4.2BSD 2048 16384 8 c: 2097120 0 unused 0 0 # "raw" part 5) gmirror label -h -n -b round-robin gm0 /dev/da1s1a to create mirror 6) fdisk -BI /dev/mirror/gm0 to create a slice in gm0 7) bsdlabel -w -B /dev/mirror/gm0s1 to create root partition a: 995951 16 4.2BSD 2048 16384 8 c: 995967 0 unused 0 0 # "raw" part 8) newfs, mount, dump/restore to /dev/mirror/gm0s1a, modify fstab, loader.conf, create boot.config to boot off mirror 9) reboot ... and at that point I get "Not ufs" and "No /boot/loader". Any kind of input, be it a link to some material on the web or a proper sequence of command is much appreciated. I've googled a lot and haven't found any examples/howtos/tutorials on how to set up what I'm trying to do. Thanks, -- Nino
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