I was initially hung up on the boot disk issue as well - everything in the handbook applies to a data-only drive as well, except the part about dumping the filesystem, etc. I presume your disks are uninitialized.
I suggest a look at the actual gmirror manpage, it has more & better examples, and I pretty much followed one of those exactly. There's really only 2 things to do: 1) make sure gmirror gets loaded on startup (specific directions are in the handbook/man) 2) initialize your disks with gmirror as per the man page. After that works, you'll have something like /dev/mirror/gm0 (you'll still have /dev/da1 and da2, but you want to use the gm0 in fstab instead, otherwise, it won't be mirrored). Then, if you are a newbie like me, you can just run sysinstall to fdisk and label (aka. 'partition/format') your new disk. It was quite easier than I expected, acutally, and my disks have live data on them - no problems ensued. Since it's a 'normal' disk after gmirror is configured, samba works with it just like the rest of your filesystem. Samba was a bit more work for me, but again, just followed the handbook and samba.org instructions, and I had no major issues. Steve On 4/19/07, L Goodwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hello. I have a server with 3 SCSI drives. FreeBSD is installed on da0 (4.3GB), and da1 and da2 (both identical 9GB drives) are to be used in a RAID 1 array for file storage on a LAN with Windows XP and Vista clients, using Samba to share the filesystem on da1. Backups will be taken from da2. Drives da1 and da2 are currently "unused" (reclaimed from a Windows server). I have not done anything to prepare these 2 drives yet. I also have not configured Samba yet. Please walk me through the process of setting up a FreeBSD 6.2 fileserver given these conditions? I tried configuring the RAID1 array using the following sources, but got judging from the errors I got, it looks like I need to prepare da1/da2 first: http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2005/11/10/FreeBSD_Basics.html http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/geom-mirror.html Both assume you only have 2 drives and want to mirror the drive containing FreeBSD. I only want to mirror the data drive da1, and would appreciate a concise set of steps for doing this right the first time. Thanks! --------------------------------- Ahhh...imagining that irresistible "new car" smell? Check outnew cars at Yahoo! Autos. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
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