Date: Tue, 07 Jul 2009 18:53:31 -0700 From: Drew Tomlinson <drew@mykitchentable.net> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Help With Custom Disk Layout For New Install Message-ID: <4A53FC1B.5090303@mykitchentable.net>
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I have a new box and have been trying to install 7.2 amd64 on it for the past week. I now see that 8.0-BETA1 is available and would be willing to install it if it supports my intended config below. I'm using this page as a guide but am at the console so I'm just using the Fix It CD: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/remote-install/installation.html I'm having two problems. gmirror fails silently (i.e. nothing exists in /dev/mirror). zpool command complains about libraries not being available or something to that effect. I only want to use FreeBSD on this box and I want to dedicate all drives to FreeBSD. The box has 4 SATA drives detected as follows: ad6 - 750 GB ad8 - 500 GB ad12 - 500 GB ad14 - 500 GB My thought is to break the disks up as so: ad6 a: 500M b: 500M d: 465G e: 225G (rest of drive) ad8 a: 500M b: 500M d: 465G (rest of drive) ad12 b: 1000M d: 465G (rest of drive) ad14 b: 1000M d: 465G (rest of drive) Then to install, I want to use gmirror and zfs as so: / - mirror ad6a and ad8a swap - all the b: partitions (if that's the right term) for a total of 3 GB swap. zfs - make a raid1z zpool with ad6d, ad8d, ad12d, and ad14d. in this pool I will create /usr and /var ad6e will just be extra space for some other use. So does my plan make sense? And if so, how can I best accomplish it? Is there a better guide somewhere? Should I use gpart and glabel instead of fdisk and bsdlabel? I've read the man pages for gpart and glabel but didn't really get it and thus returned to the more familiar fdisk and bsdlabel. Thanks, Drew -- Be a Great Magician! Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com
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