That should work. Softraid offsets 64 blocks so that should be the start of your disk. Btw making this work is not for the faint hearted or people who are attached to their data.
On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 11:07:43PM +0100, Nick Nauwelaerts wrote: > On Tue, 3 Mar 2009 14:14:22 -0500 > Ted Unangst <ted.unan...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 2:02 PM, Nick Nauwelaerts > > <n...@nauwelaerts.net> wrote: > > > # bioctl -C force -c 1 -l /dev/sd1d softraid0 > > > bioctl: not enough disks > > > > > > Any clues? I'm looking for a way to use it with just one disk while > > > the other gets replaced. > > > > Since there's no special format for raid1, as a last resort you can > > adjust the disklabel location and change the type to ffs, then mount > > it normally without going through softraid. scanffs can probably make > > this easier. > > Just for the record, changing your fstype to 4.2BSD and trying to mount > the partition is a no-go. I also got confirmation that partial bringup > is currently not there yet, so I'll just make sure I have a spare drive > lying around. > > thx > > // nick
