Date: Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:04:45 -0700 From: Drew Tomlinson <drew@mykitchentable.net> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fix It CD, bsdlabel, and /dev? Message-ID: <4A4E807D.40007@mykitchentable.net> In-Reply-To: <20090703220406.d07ca7b4.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <4A4E5669.8070308@mykitchentable.net> <20090703220406.d07ca7b4.freebsd@edvax.de>
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Polytropon wrote: > On Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:05:13 -0700, Drew Tomlinson <drew@mykitchentable.net> wrote: > >> Next I used bsdlabel >> and created 500M a: partitions on two of the drives (ad6 & ad8). >> > ^ > There is no colon after the partition letter. The colon > is used to refer (or change) to the 1st DOS diskette drive. :-) > I'm not sure what you mean here. I showed it as "a:" as that's how bsdlabel reports it when displaying the label 'bsdlabel ad6' for example. >> However /dev/ad6s1a and /dev/ad8s1a do not exist. I do have entries such >> as /dev/ad6a and/dev/ad8a but gmirror doesn't like those. What must I do >> the get them to show after I've labeled? >> > > If you have /dev/ad[68]a, it indicates that you haven't created a > slice on those disks, instead you created one partition (a) on > each of the disks. > I think this was part of my problem. For example, I did 'bsdlabel ad6' instead of 'bsdlabel ad6s1'. Now I have entries such as /dev/ad6s1a and /dev/ad8s1a after using 'bsdlabel -e <dev>'. However now I use 'gmirror label root /dev/ad[68]s1a' as in the guide. No error is reported at the command line but /dev/mirror/root is not created either. Any ideas? Thanks, Drew -- Be a Great Magician! Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com
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