On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 08:20:30PM +0100, Samuel Tardieu wrote:
+> Hi.
+>
+> I just added two disks (ad4 & ad6, SATA 160Go) to my FreeBSD box. I
want to
+> use them in the following configuration:
+>
+> - ad4s1 & ad6s1: geom mirror of 80Go containing all my precious data
(/,
+> /usr, /var, /home)
+>
+> - ad4s2b: swap
+>
+> - ad4s2x, ad6s2x: non-important data
+>
+> On the mirror (ad4s1+ad6s1), I created partitions for /, /tmp, /usr,
+> and /var.
+>
+> Is there any pitfall in doing so? Do I have to be careful to keep extra
space
+> somewhere? (such as one sector at the end of ad4s1/ad6s1)
+>
+> I can't seem to place bootcode at the beginning of the mirror:
+>
+> # bsdlabel /dev/mirror/precious
+> # /dev/mirror/precious:
+> 8 partitions:
+> # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg]
+> a: 524288 16 4.2BSD 2048 16384 32776
+> c: 167766731 0 unused 0 0 # "raw"
part, don't edit
+> d: 2097152 524304 4.2BSD 2048 16384 28552
+> e: 524288 2621456 4.2BSD 2048 16384 32776
+> f: 164620971 3145744 4.2BSD 2048 16384 28552
+>
+> # bsdlabel -B /dev/mirror/precious
+> bsdlabel: Geom not found
+>
+> What does this error mean?
It could mean, that there is no such device.
Hard to say, as I can't reproduce it here - 'bsdlabel -B' works for
me.
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