mirror a GPT partition, what label?

[Koen Smits]

Ok, let's give that a shot then.
I still don't see the big picture here, but if it works I guess that's fine
with me too.

On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 22:06, Marcel Moolenaar <xcllnt at mac.com> wrote:

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> On Jan 8, 2009, at 11:35 AM, Koen Smits wrote:
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>  Hi,
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>> My new NAS will have the following disk layout:
>> ad0 -> 2gb CF
>> ad4 -> 1TB WD Green
>> ad6 -> 1TB WD Green
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>> The CF will boot the rig, the 2 1TB disks will be mirrored with ZFS. No
>> problem there, did it before.
>> The problem lies in the swap space, which I want to place at the first
>> gigabyte of the 1TB disks. The disks will use GPT layout. I want to
>> gmirror
>> the first 1GB partition on both disks. How should I accomplish this? Is it
>> sufficient to label both partitions 'freebsd'? According to man 8 gpart
>> 'freebsd' should not be used when using GPT. Any insight would be
>> appreciated.
>>
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> Use "freebsd-swap" as the partition type.
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> Marcel Moolenaar
> xcllnt at mac.com
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