SOLVED: Re: cannot partition HP 73GB disks

[Anton Shterenlikht]

On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 05:07:40PM -0600, ToyoRunner wrote:
> 
> BTW, did you have any luck with gmirror?

# gpart show
=>       34  143374671  da0  GPT  (68G)
         34     819200    1  efi  (400M)
     819234    1048576    2  freebsd-ufs  (512M)
    1867810    4194304    3  freebsd-swap  (2.0G)
    6062114    2097152    4  freebsd-ufs  (1.0G)
    8159266    2097152    5  freebsd-ufs  (1.0G)
   10256418  133118287    6  freebsd-ufs  (63G)

=>       34  143374671  da1  GPT  (68G)
         34     819200    1  efi  (400M)
     819234    1048576    2  freebsd-ufs  (512M)
    1867810    4194304    3  freebsd-swap  (2.0G)
    6062114    2097152    4  freebsd-ufs  (1.0G)
    8159266    2097152    5  freebsd-ufs  (1.0G)
   10256418  133118287    6  freebsd-ufs  (63G)

#


# gmirror status
       Name    Status  Components
 mirror/efi  COMPLETE  da0p1
                       da1p1
mirror/root  COMPLETE  da1p2
                       da0p2
mirror/swap  COMPLETE  da1p3
                       da0p3
 mirror/usr  DEGRADED  da0p6
                       da1p6 (25%)
 mirror/tmp  COMPLETE  da0p5
                       da1p5
 mirror/var  COMPLETE  da0p4
                       da1p4
#

why is rebuilding such a slow process? there are less than 300MB of
data on /usr as of fresh minimal install. However the partition is
63GB. But does the partition size matter? I'd imagine only data need
to be rebuild. I've got to 25% after about 10 minutes. The data
transfer rate for these disks supposed to be 300 MB/s according to
dmesg:

da0: 320.000MB/s transfers (160.000MHz, offset 63, 16bit)

I'm surely missing something simple.

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