offset 16 at bsdlabel step of gmirror config

[Ken Gunderson]

On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 09:02:35 -0400 (EDT)
Dru <dlavigne6 at sympatico.ca> wrote:

> 
> I've found Ralf's tutorial on configuring gmirror and have read through 
> the threads on this list. But I'm still unsure of the bsdlabel step 
> when configuring gmirror.
> 
> I know partition a is supposed to be offset 16 instead of 0. When I change 
> it, I get this message:
> 
> partitions a and b overlap!
> 
> If I bump up b's offset by 16, that message goes away, but I still have 
> this one:
> 
> bsdlabel: partition c doesn't cover the whole unit!
> 
> I get the same message if I bump up all the offsets (except c) by 16.
> 
> Should I:
> 
> 1. just bump a's offset up by 16 and ignore error messages?
> 2. bump a and b's offsets up by 16 and assume error message on c is due to
>     sysinstall bug and can be ignored?
> 3. bump up all the offsets by 16 (except for c which shouldn't be touched)
>     and ignore error message about c
> 
> Dru

When you increase partition a's offset by 16 you ALSO need to subtract
16 from the size of partition a.  Not doing so was what was causing
partitiona a and b to overlap. 

That's the simplest way anyhow.  Have fun. 

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Ken Gunderson
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