GMirror problem updating from FreeBSD 6.2 to 7.0

[Jeremie Le Hen]

Hi Andrea,

On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 12:08:59PM +0100, Andrea Brancatelli wrote:
> On 6/23/2008, "Andrea Brancatelli" <andrea at ragedrecords.com> wrote:
> 
> [.....]
> 
> >What should I do? Maybe write a new bsdlabel and hope it matches the
> >previous one (it should as I think)
> 
> Should I try to restart the old 6.2 installation and see if it can see
> the mirror?
> 
> Maybe I should try to mount the partition directly bypassing the mirror?
> 
> Thank you very much for your help, the situation's pretty much
> critical...

You can use "gmirror clear <provider>" to remove the metadata, so it
won't be tasted as a gmirror component anymore.  Don't forget to "stop"
the mirror first.

Regards,
-- 
Jeremie Le Hen
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