Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2005 21:38:00 -0500 From: Karl Denninger <karl@denninger.net> To: Christian Caron <christian.caron@videotron.ca>, Tomas Zvala <tomas@zvala.cz>, freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mirroring two data disks (no system files on them) Message-ID: <20050404213800.A29631@denninger.net> In-Reply-To: <4251F631.3050707@videotron.ca>; from Christian Caron on Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 10:21:37PM -0400 References: <4250A400.50200@videotron.ca> <4250F778.3040903@zvala.cz> <4251F631.3050707@videotron.ca>
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On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 10:21:37PM -0400, Christian Caron wrote: > Tomas Zvala a écrit : > > did /dev/ad3s1 contain filesystem already? did you do newfs > > /dev/mirror/gm0s1 ? what does it mean "dies"? what does it say? > > Ok... man newfs shed some light on how to prepare a new disk... > > newfs -U /dev/mirror/gm0s1 > mkdir /mirror > mount /dev/mirror/gm0s1 /mirror > > did the trick. It boots ok and it seems to work (gmirror list does > return something, although it says "DIRTY" which doesn't sound > excellent...). > > I'll read the manual. > > Thanks! > > Christian "Dirty" is normal. It means the volume is mounted and has data on it, and is not "clean", just as a mounted disk is "dirty" while it is actually mounted. -- -- Karl Denninger (karl@denninger.net) Internet Consultant & Kids Rights Activist http://www.denninger.net My home on the net - links to everything I do! http://scubaforum.org Your UNCENSORED place to talk about DIVING! http://www.spamcuda.net SPAM FREE mailboxes - FREE FOR A LIMITED TIME! http://genesis3.blogspot.com Musings Of A Sentient Mind
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