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>
> How do I break a mirror in gvinum in FreeBSD 5.3?; gvinum detach
> doesn't seem to be implemented.
>
> I have a machine (colo, so no easy physical access) on which one of
> the disks on the root mirror seems to be corrupted, so I need to
> remove it from the mirror and rebuild.  But without detach, I'm at a
> loss...
>
> Any suggestions?

Would vinum detach work? I know gvinum will work with disks configured
using vinum so maybe the vinum command will detach things properly.

That is good to know. Now I need to figure out how to get my 5.3 system to
use vinum again instead of gvinum.

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Ean Kingston

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