On Sat, November 14, 2009 6:03 pm, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > Larry Rosenman wrote: >> NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM >> vault ONLINE 0 0 0 >> raidz1 ONLINE 0 0 0 >> ada1 ONLINE 0 0 0 >> ada2 ONLINE 0 0 0 >> ada3 ONLINE 0 0 0 >> ada4 ONLINE 0 0 0 >> ada5 ONLINE 0 0 0 >> ada0s1f ONLINE 0 0 0 >> ada0s1e ONLINE 0 0 0 >> ada0s1d ONLINE 0 0 0 >> >> errors: No known data errors >> # glabel label disk01 /dev/ada1 >> glabel: Can't store metadata on /dev/ada1: Operation not permitted. >> # >> >> Ideas? > > This is because glabel writes to the end of the disk (which is what it > uses to persist the label), if you haven't already labelled them it > can't add a one without destroying some data. > > I don't have this problem because I used GPT as a container and it has a > UUID for each partition made.
That makes sense. I guess if I ever rebuild this one, I'll be better about it :) and, now that we have raidz boot, I'll just make the whole mess ZFS. :) LER -- Larry Rosenman http://www.lerctr.org/~ler Phone: +1 512-248-2683 E-Mail: l...@lerctr.org US Mail: 430 Valona Loop, Round Rock, TX 78681-3893 _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"