offset 16 at bsdlabel step of gmirror config
Ken Gunderson
kgunders at teamcool.net
Tue Apr 26 07:04:33 PDT 2005
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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