On Wed, 17 May 2006 12:46:41 +0300 Rostislav Krasny <rosti.bsd_at_gmail.com> wrote: > Certainly. I'm only wondering now, why it wasn't fixed in sysinstall > during so many years? No idea. One simply needs to know, you have to set up your the discs manually if you intend to, eg gmirror the / partition. I think on geom_at_ Pawel once explained why this wasn't changed in sysinstall, but I can't find the mail. > And had those hacks in UFS and Swap been made > because of sysinstall or because of something else? These are historically grown. > By the way, how could one change offset of first bsd partitions on > already installed FreeBSD without destroying it? You can't. dump(1) and restore(1), that's all you've got. Mirroring partitions on a already running FreeBSD is counter-intuitive anyway. Set the second disc to sane values, dump your partitions, set up the mirrors/... in single-user mode (even for / but here only with the a partition of the second disc), restore your dumps, boot the second disc, add and sync a from the first disc. Utilizing `tunefs -L` and glabel for /etc/fstab eases the pain. Adding Raid 0/1/3/10 (plain and/or geli encrypted) via geom afterwards to a fully configured system with wrong offsets is possible (done it once, don't intend to do it twice), but there are many ways to shoot your knee-caps while doing so. Joerg -- | /"\ ASCII ribbon | GnuPG Key ID | e86d b753 3deb e749 6c3a | | \ / campaign against | 0xbbcaad24 | 5706 1f7d 6cfd bbca ad24 | | X HTML in email | .the next sentence is true. | | / \ and news | .the previous sentence was a lie. |
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