Thursday, July 12, 2007

gmirror – Software RAID 1

Boot from a FreeBSD CD and choose "Fix-it" mode

chroot /dist

mount_devfs devfs /dev

gmirror clear /dev/ad4

gmirror clear /dev/ad6

gmirror load

gmirror label -v -b load gm0 /dev/ad4

mount /dev/mirror/gm0s2a /mnt

echo geom_mirror_load="YES" >> /mnt/boot/loader.conf

echo swapoff="YES" >> /mnt/etc/rc.conf

sed "s%ad4%mirror/gm0%" /mnt/etc/fstab > /mnt/etc/fstab.new

mv /mnt/etc/fstab /mnt/etc/fstab.old

mv /mnt/etc/fstab.new /mnt/etc/fstab

gmirror insert gm0 /dev/ad6



See:
http://freebsdwiki.net/index.php/RAID1,_Software,_How_to_setup

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