gmirror on slice

Wojciech Puchar wojtek at wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl
Sat Feb 23 16:16:48 UTC 2008


> Now I want to initialize gmirror on slice 1:
>
> ha-db1# gmirror label -v -b round-robin gm0 /dev/ad4s1
> gmirror: Can't store metadata on /dev/ad4s1: Operation not permitted.
> ha-db1# sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=16

you try to make a mirror on used slice or some partition of that

> kern.geom.debugflags: 0 -> 16
> ha-db1# gmirror label -v -b round-robin gm0 /dev/ad4s1
> gmirror: Can't store metadata on /dev/ad4s1: Operation not permitted.
>
> for additional information, I am including the following:
>
> ha-db1# fdisk -vp ad4
> # /dev/ad4
> g c1453521 h16 s63
> p 1 0xa5 63 72340632
> a 1
> p 2 0xa5 72340695 1392803370
>
> ha-db1# disklabel /dev/ad4s1
> # /dev/ad4s1:
> 8 partitions:
> #        size   offset    fstype   [fsize bsize bps/cpg]
>  a:  1048576        0    4.2BSD     2048 16384     8
>  b: 25165824  1048576      swap
>  c: 72340632        0    unused        0     0         # "raw" part, don't edit
>  d: 25165824 26214400    4.2BSD     2048 16384 28528
>  e: 20960408 51380224    4.2BSD     2048 16384 28528
>
>
> Any ideas will be much appreciated.
>
> -- 
> Best regards,
> Daniel                          mailto:danger at FreeBSD.org
>
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