On 8/23/06, Andreas Maus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 8/23/06, Nick Guenther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Nick. > > Does anyone knows whats wrong or what I should do the fix this > > behaviour? > > My first guess is that something is wiping out the disklabel on wd1. > That is, some boundary is configured wrong and, in the process of > writing to the ccd, sometimes it "spills over" and smashes the > disklabel. In that case you'd also be losing whatever data is getting > put there when you fix the disklabel. Oh look, the disklabel is stored > in the first 512b of wd1a, and you are using wd1a as part of the ccd. Aha! This would explain the mysterious "works mostly" thing ;) Maybe the man page should mention something like this ? (Or I missed it while reading it ;)
Yay! I actually got the answer right. It's not really manpage material. You'd have to stick a note about it for every single command that is in any way related to partitions, to be sure. Instead, the FAQ makes it very clear that the disklabel is in the a partition, and shouldn't fuck with it, and for every other piece of documentation it's assumed you've read that. The example in ccdconfig(8) shows the use of e partitions.
O.K. Together with the reply from Kyle I will recreate the ccd0 next week (after a backup of several gigabytes).
Good to know.
So long,
I'll even say adieu -Nick
