2010/3/30 Matthew Seaman <m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk> > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 29/03/2010 21:10:42, krad wrote: > > You will need to newfs the gmirror device > > after that so backup the data currently on /, then copy it back > afterwards. > > This is counter to all my experience of dealing with gmirror -- it's > carefully designed so that the metadata it writes to the drive > *doesn't* interfere with the filesystem. While it is always a good > idea to have backups, I do not believe that destroying and recreating > the filesystem should be necessary. > > Cheers, > > Matthew > > - -- > Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard > Flat 3 > PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate > Kent, CT11 9PW > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.14 (Darwin) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ > > iEYEARECAAYFAkuxopAACgkQ8Mjk52CukIxvZwCaAgTijPzbHoL5whM6F3GQax2N > eN4An3/HZSRgUml7jy+IpYRyK0rEfGRr > =e+4T > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >
Im pretty sure that it will nick the last sector from the slice, so you will at least need to fsck it. If its a production system i would always go for the cleaner approach as well and newfs is about as clean as it gets. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"