Is there some way to determine the size of disks discovered with
`format'
An attempt to create a 2 disk mirror failed with the message that the
disks were different sizes, but I thought they were the same size... I
must have used the wrong identifier for one of the disks... so to find
the matching
On 22/11/10 01:44 PM, Harry Putnam wrote:
Is there some way to determine the size of disks discovered with
`format'
An attempt to create a 2 disk mirror failed with the message that the
disks were different sizes, but I thought they were the same size... I
must have used the wrong identifier for
McBofh writes:
> On 22/11/10 01:44 PM, Harry Putnam wrote:
>> Is there some way to determine the size of disks discovered with
>> `format'
>>
>> An attempt to create a 2 disk mirror failed with the message that the
>> disks were different sizes, but I thought they were the same size... I
>> must
On 22 Nov 2010, at 04:14, Harry Putnam wrote:
> McBofh writes:
>
>> It's mostly the cylinder numbers that you need to watch out for.
>> If you have devices with the same claimed manufacturer size but
>> different geometry, I'd create a slice of the maximum size on the
>> smaller disk, then crea
> Thanks... very helpful. I noticed though that once a disk is formatted
> or put into a zpool the cyl no. is no longer given, but then the size
> is shown
>
> I did also find a diffeent answer too.
>
> `iostat -En ' Appears to give both the names and the sizes. But
> not sure it would still be u
