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Subject: Re: Gmirror question
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Guido van Rooij wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 11:07:14AM +0100, Tom Judge wrote:
>   
>> Guido van Rooij wrote:
>>     
>>> Is it possible to use gmirror to mirror a single BSD partition?
>>> If not: is it possible with other tools?
>>>       
>> Yes it is possible, I found this site had very good examples of setting 
>> it up:
>>
>> http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/mirror/
>>
>>     
>
> This only documents how to set it up on an entire disk or on a slice.
>
> -Guido
The instructions for mirroring a slice can be modified slightly (by 
using the correct devices) to do mirror a single partition. 

Tom