Labeling disks

Artis Caune artis.caune at gmail.com
Tue Jan 6 13:04:17 PST 2009


2008/12/5 Stefan Bethke <stb at 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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Artis Caune

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