On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 5:41 PM, Aragon Gouveia <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Between MBR and GPT, I'm struggling to find the right partitioning scheme to > meet my requirements. Suggestions on below would be highly appreciated. > > I have 2 disks. I want 2 independent gmirror volumes, ie. 2 partitions on > each disk, with one partition from each disk in a gmirror volume. Each > gmirror volume would contain a bootable FreeBSD system (BSD label), and I'd > selectively boot between them when testing new releases or other big > changes. > > Then I'd like a 3rd partition on each disk, both of which for swap space. > > Then a 4th partition on each disk which I plan to use as a ZFS mirrored ZIL. > > Finally, a 5th partition on each disk which would both serve as ZFS L2ARC. > > My dilemma: > > All documentation and mailing list discussion about GPT seems to indicate > that creating BSD labels inside GPT partitions is a Bad Idea, which would > mean putting two GPT partitions into a gmirror volume is a bad idea. Is > this still the case? >
Use the -l option to gpart to create a label for the partition: gpart add -s 4G -t freebsd-swap -l swap0 ad0 The label would then show up under /dev/gpt (i.e. /dev/gpt/swap0). Scot _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-geom To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
