mounting geom partition

[John Nielsen]

Quoting John Clement <john.clement at readingroom.com>:

> 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