From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 3 17:24:00 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E22A16A41A for ; Thu, 3 Jan 2008 17:24:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from john@jnielsen.net) Received: from ns1.jnielsen.net (ns1.jnielsen.net [69.55.238.237]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15EA313C455 for ; Thu, 3 Jan 2008 17:23:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from john@jnielsen.net) Received: from ns1.jnielsen.net (jn@ns1 [69.55.238.237]) by ns1.jnielsen.net (8.12.9p2/8.12.9) with ESMTP id m03H7cQV097436; Thu, 3 Jan 2008 12:07:39 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from john@jnielsen.net) Received: (from www@localhost) by ns1.jnielsen.net (8.12.9p2/8.12.9/Submit) id m03H7cZc097429; Thu, 3 Jan 2008 12:07:38 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from john@jnielsen.net) X-Authentication-Warning: ns1.jnielsen.net: www set sender to john@jnielsen.net using -f Received: from nc-2wac-zop08.wachovia.com (nc-2wac-zop08.wachovia.com [162.111.235.19]) by newwebmail.jnielsen.net (Horde MIME library) with HTTP; Thu, 03 Jan 2008 12:07:38 -0500 Message-ID: <20080103120738.ugay77sc8w0o84gw@newwebmail.jnielsen.net> Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2008 12:07:38 -0500 From: John Nielsen To: John Clement References: <5B88B3834A330D4280D10517A4B7C586F257@dst-ex-01.readingroom.local> In-Reply-To: <5B88B3834A330D4280D10517A4B7C586F257@dst-ex-01.readingroom.local> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format="flowed" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) H3 (4.0.4) / FreeBSD-4.9 X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.88.4, clamav-milter version 0.88.4 on ns1.jnielsen.net X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mounting geom partition 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: Thu, 03 Jan 2008 17:24:00 -0000 Quoting John Clement : > Quite some time ago I setup a machine with a couple of 250GB disks in > that were mirrored using geom, although I can't remember if I mounted it > as 1x 250GB partition or several smaller ones. The machine they were in > died, and I kept hold of one of the two disks so I could restore the > data. I'm now at that point and it occurs to me that I don't know for > sure how to remount it. > > Before I plug it in and accidentally write over the partition table or > something, I just wanted to check with someone that what I'm thinking is > about right. Having been going over the documentation again and from > what I remember the partition table should still be there (fdisk should > tell me this) and I should, in theory, be able to simply mount the > partition(s) as regular filesystem(s), is this correct? > > Thanks in advance! That's correct. Additionally, if you have the gmirror kernel module loaded it will recognize the mirror component(s) and you will be able to access it/them as (degraded) gmirror devices. JN