On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 08:20:30PM +0100, Samuel Tardieu wrote: +> Hi. +> +> I just added two disks (ad4 & ad6, SATA 160Go) to my FreeBSD box. I want to +> use them in the following configuration: +> +> - ad4s1 & ad6s1: geom mirror of 80Go containing all my precious data (/, +> /usr, /var, /home) +> +> - ad4s2b: swap +> +> - ad4s2x, ad6s2x: non-important data +> +> On the mirror (ad4s1+ad6s1), I created partitions for /, /tmp, /usr, +> and /var. +> +> 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) +> +> I can't seem to place bootcode at the beginning of the mirror: +> +> # bsdlabel /dev/mirror/precious +> # /dev/mirror/precious: +> 8 partitions: +> # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] +> a: 524288 16 4.2BSD 2048 16384 32776 +> c: 167766731 0 unused 0 0 # "raw" part, don't edit +> d: 2097152 524304 4.2BSD 2048 16384 28552 +> e: 524288 2621456 4.2BSD 2048 16384 32776 +> f: 164620971 3145744 4.2BSD 2048 16384 28552 +> +> # bsdlabel -B /dev/mirror/precious +> bsdlabel: Geom not found +> +> 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. -- Pawel Jakub Dawidek http://www.wheel.pl [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer Am I Evil? Yes, I Am!
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