partitioning a gmirror (was Re: sysinstall vs gmirror)

2010-10-04 Thread perryh
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Re: sysinstall vs gmirror

2010-09-18 Thread Brandon Gooch
On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 1:20 AM, wrote: > Adam Vande More wrote: [SNIP] > The question is, how do I go about partitioning gm0 from Fixit? > I've seen nothing so far that describes how to go about creating > multiple partitions on a gmirror (or on anything else, for that > matter) without either

Re: sysinstall vs gmirror

2010-09-17 Thread perryh
Adam Vande More wrote: > On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 11:09 PM, wrote: > > > Next fdisk/gpart accordingly (don't forget to make it bootable). > > > > This is where I get stuck. I've partitioned the physical drives > > using sysinstall, but how do I go about partitioning gm0? > > Your problem is that

Re: sysinstall vs gmirror

2010-09-17 Thread Adam Vande More
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 11:09 PM, wrote: > > Next fdisk/gpart accordingly (don't forget to make it bootable). > > This is where I get stuck. I've partitioned the physical drives > using sysinstall, but how do I go about partitioning gm0? > Your problem is that you are still using sysinstall. Y

Re: sysinstall vs gmirror

2010-09-17 Thread perryh
Adam Vande More wrote: > On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 11:14 PM, wrote: > > The part I don't know how to do is partitioning gm0 by hand. > > (I suppose it would require some sort of arcane incantations > > involving bsdlabel.) For all its limitations, sysinstall > > seems at least to know how to tran

Re: sysinstall vs gmirror

2010-09-12 Thread Adam Vande More
On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 11:14 PM, wrote: > The part I don't know how to do is partitioning gm0 by hand. > (I suppose it would require some sort of arcane incantations > involving bsdlabel.) For all its limitations, sysinstall > seems at least to know how to translate a reasonably human- > readab

Re: sysinstall vs gmirror

2010-09-12 Thread perryh
Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 12/09/2010 05:09:04, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: > > How do I get sysinstall to recognize a gmirror? > > ... > I don't think sysinstall will do what you want. It certainly has been less than totally cooperative so far :( > However, what is your ultimate goal? > To in

Re: sysinstall vs gmirror

2010-09-12 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 12/09/2010 05:09:04, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: > How do I get sysinstall to recognize a gmirror? > > I've created the mirror -- which currently has only one provider -- > using Fixit#, followed by > > Fixit# ln -s /dist/boot/kernel /boot > Fixit# gmirror load > > after which /dev/m