On Fri, Jul 03, 2009 at 10:04:06PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: > On Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:05:13 -0700, Drew Tomlinson <d...@mykitchentable.net> > wrote: > > Next I used bsdlabel > > and created 500M a: partitions on two of the drives (ad6 & ad8). > ^ > There is no colon after the partition letter. The colon > is used to refer (or change) to the 1st DOS diskette drive. :-) > > > > > However /dev/ad6s1a and /dev/ad8s1a do not exist. I do have entries such > > as /dev/ad6a and/dev/ad8a but gmirror doesn't like those. What must I do > > the get them to show after I've labeled? > > If you have /dev/ad[68]a, it indicates that you haven't created a > slice on those disks, instead you created one partition (a) on > each of the disks. > > If you are a lazy guy (as I am), then use sysinstall to create the > slices and the partition. Choose "standard MBR" after the slice > editor and go ahead with the partition editor.
why not give gpart(8) a go? -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 928 8233 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423 _______________________________________________ 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"
