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Date:      Tue, 6 Jan 2009 22:34:58 +0200
From:      "Artis Caune" <artis.caune@gmail.com>
To:        "Stefan Bethke" <stb@lassitu.de>
Cc:        FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Labeling disks
Message-ID:  <9e20d71e0901061234n2b6a526ap3290abdca4ef7527@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <F6680BFC-39C5-48F9-B159-D2C6DE705BBD@lassitu.de>
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2008/12/5 Stefan Bethke <stb@lassitu.de>:
> - Using glabel to label the disks, and then fdisk/bsdlabel partioning them,
> works nicely. As soon as I put a gmirror on the label/disk?s1a partitions,
> *all* labels disappear. Huh? I can understand removing the labels for the
> partitions that are now the providers used by the gmirror, but why to the
> other get removed? Also, it seems that gmirror references the actual disks
> (see gmirror output below) instead of the labels. I was under the impression
> that glabel would consume a provider and provide it minus the last sector,
> so /dev/label/foo and /dev/ad22 are not the same device (but do overlap).

Have you tried to label gmirror with -h flag?




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regards,
Artis Caune

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