From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 5 12:14:15 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DA5E16A404 for ; Fri, 5 May 2006 12:14:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@webtent.net) Received: from genoa.webtent.org (static-70-110-70-42.tampfl.fios.verizon.net [70.110.70.42]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C246543D5D for ; Fri, 5 May 2006 12:14:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lists@webtent.net) Received: from columbus.webtent.org (columbus.webtent.org [192.168.1.25]) by genoa.webtent.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A38FA8A029 for ; Fri, 5 May 2006 08:14:09 -0400 (EDT) From: Robert Fitzpatrick To: FreeBSD Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 05 May 2006 08:14:09 -0400 Message-Id: <1146831249.11355.15.camel@columbus.webtent.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.4.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Problem using geom to mirror system X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 05 May 2006 12:14:15 -0000 I am following the doc at http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/mirror/ While using Approach 2, the initial dump and reboot using the new gm0 mirror worked fine, but having a problem trying to add my da0 drive to the mirror after the reboot. Can someone suggest what I've done wrong? files# gmirror configure -a gm0s1 No such device: gm0s1. files# df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/mirror/gm0s1a 8.3G 1.2G 6.4G 16% / devfs 1.0K 1.0K 0B 100% /dev /dev/mirror/datas1a 33G 4.0K 30G 0% /data files# ls -lah /dev/mirror/ total 1 dr-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Dec 31 1969 . dr-xr-xr-x 5 root wheel 512 Dec 31 1969 .. crw-r----- 1 root operator 0, 116 May 4 23:43 data crw-r----- 1 root operator 0, 118 May 4 23:43 datas1 crw-r----- 1 root operator 0, 121 May 4 19:43 datas1a crw-r----- 1 root operator 0, 122 May 4 23:43 datas1c crw-r----- 1 root operator 0, 109 May 4 23:43 gm0 crw-r----- 1 root operator 0, 117 May 4 23:43 gm0s1 crw-r----- 1 root operator 0, 119 May 4 19:43 gm0s1a crw-r----- 1 root operator 0, 120 May 4 23:43 gm0s1c files# dmesg|grep gm0 GEOM_MIRROR: Device gm0 created (id=982386906). GEOM_MIRROR: Device gm0: provider da1 detected. GEOM_MIRROR: Device gm0: provider da1 activated. GEOM_MIRROR: Device gm0: provider mirror/gm0 launched. Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/mirror/gm0s1a -- Robert