Subdividing a gmirror
Pete French
petefrench at ticketswitch.com
Mon Oct 18 11:13:43 UTC 2010
> Using the 8.1 memstick distribution, I've created a gmirror (which
> currently contains only one provider -- the other is to be added
> later), and Fixit can see /dev/mirror/gm0* once I've executed
> "gmirror load", but neither gpart nor fdisk seems to recognize gm0
> as something on which it can operate. bsdlabel sees _something_,
> but it appears not to be valid.
try this...
diskabel -w /dev/mirror/gm0
That will write a disk label to the mirrored drive, and you can
then editit it using
disklabel -e /dev/mirror/gm0
to add your subdividions.
-pete.
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