Mike Jakubik wrote, On 25.6.2006 20:14: > Matthew Seaman wrote: >> Václav Haisman wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> I want to set up GEOM mirror of whole existing partitioned 250G disk. >>> The procedure described at <http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/mirror/> >>> seems to be rather long/complicated. I thought about using this: >>> >>> # Boot into single user, then... >>> # First change fstab. >>> cp -p /etc/fstab /etc/fstab.orig >>> sed -e 's/dev\/ad0/dev\/mirror\/gm0/g' </etc/fstab.orig >/etc/fstab >>> # Then create the mirror. >>> gmirror label -v -b split -s 2048 mymirror ad0 >>> gmirror insert -h mymirror ad2 >>> # Reboot into the new World order. >>> shutdown -r now >>> >>> Will this work or is it wrong? I appreciate any comment to this. >>> >> >> http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2005/11/10/FreeBSD_Basics.html >> > > The problem with these instructions is that they don't take in to > account the last sector. You may very well end up writing the metadata > on the file system. Hmm, this is goot to know. However in my case it will be ok, I have some spare space at the end of the disk.
-- Vaclav Haisman
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