Re: failed to create gmirror with the handbook instructions

2013-10-08 Thread Andy Zammy
Thanks very much. Please could I make a suggestion that this be included in the handbook page? On 8 Oct 2013 01:31, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: On Tue, 8 Oct 2013, Andy Zammy wrote: Hi, I used the second section of the handbook (20.4) to create a gmirror. In my particular setup

Re: failed to create gmirror with the handbook instructions

2013-10-08 Thread Andy Zammy
This is actually trickier than it first looked. First I got into single user mode by supplying 'shutdown now', but the tunefs commands all failed with the following: #tunefs -j disable /dev/ada0s1a Clearing journal flags from inode 4 tunefs: Failed to write journal inode: Operation not permitted

Re: failed to create gmirror with the handbook instructions

2013-10-08 Thread Andy Zammy
I On 8 October 2013 01:31, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: On Tue, 8 Oct 2013, Andy Zammy wrote: Hi, I used the second section of the handbook (20.4) to create a gmirror. In my particular setup I had a 1GB /, 6GB swap, 1GB /tmp and the rest of the 1TB drive was left for /usr I

Re: failed to create gmirror with the handbook instructions

2013-10-08 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 8 Oct 2013, Andy Zammy wrote: This is actually trickier than it first looked. First I got into single user mode by supplying 'shutdown now', but the tunefs commands all failed with the following: #tunefs -j disable /dev/ada0s1a Clearing journal flags from inode 4 tunefs: Failed to

Re: failed to create gmirror with the handbook instructions

2013-10-08 Thread Andy Zammy
# gpart show ada0s1 gpart: No such geom: ada0s1 By the way, this is after a restart of the machine. There's nothing to back up, I'm installing a fresh os, so I just install on one drive, plug the other in, and start following the handbook instructions for this method. So the only thing in

Re: failed to create gmirror with the handbook instructions

2013-10-08 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 8 Oct 2013, Andy Zammy wrote: Thanks very much. Please could I make a suggestion that this be included in the handbook page? Please do not top-post, it makes replies more difficult. I have added a warning about SUJ to the top of the gmirror section in the Handbook.

Re: failed to create gmirror with the handbook instructions

2013-10-08 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 8 Oct 2013, Andy Zammy wrote: # gpart show ada0s1 gpart: No such geom: ada0s1 By the way, this is after a restart of the machine. There's nothing to back up, I'm installing a fresh os, so I just install on one drive, plug the other in, and start following the handbook instructions

Re: failed to create gmirror with the handbook instructions

2013-10-08 Thread Michael Powell
Andy Zammy wrote: # gpart show ada0s1 gpart: No such geom: ada0s1 By the way, this is after a restart of the machine. There's nothing to back up, I'm installing a fresh os, so I just install on one drive, plug the other in, and start following the handbook instructions for this method.

Re: failed to create gmirror with the handbook instructions

2013-10-08 Thread Andy Zammy
I tried creating the mirror before the install. As the drives are now mirrored, the installer picked up on the face that there are two gm0 nodes - one on each hard drive. I installed onto ada0's gm0 node. After it reboots, the bootloader stops at the manual prompt. From what I can see that's not

failed to create gmirror with the handbook instructions

2013-10-07 Thread Andy Zammy
Hi, I used the second section of the handbook (20.4) to create a gmirror. In my particular setup I had a 1GB /, 6GB swap, 1GB /tmp and the rest of the 1TB drive was left for /usr I had to deviate from the handbook when it came to running the dump + restore commands, as the dump failed due to an

Re: failed to create gmirror with the handbook instructions

2013-10-07 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 8 Oct 2013, Andy Zammy wrote: Hi, I used the second section of the handbook (20.4) to create a gmirror. In my particular setup I had a 1GB /, 6GB swap, 1GB /tmp and the rest of the 1TB drive was left for /usr I had to deviate from the handbook when it came to running the dump +