Stumped by gpart and gmirror, trying to set up RAID1 (10.0-Beta3)

[Mike.]

On 11/23/2013 at 10:29 PM Anton Sayetsky wrote:

|2013/11/23 Mike. <the.lists at mgm51.com>:
|{...}
|> [root at a20m /etc]# gpart show mirror/gm0
|> =>      1  1981438  mirror/gm0  MBR  (967M)
|>         1       31              - free -  (16K)
|>        32  1981376           1  freebsd  (967M)
|>   1981408       31              - free -  (16K)
|{...}
|> [root at a20m /etc]# gpart add -t freebsd-ufs  -a 4k -s 2g
|> mirror/gm0s1
|> gpart: autofill: No space left on device
|
|So you're trying create an 2G-sized partition inside a slice of
967
|mebibytes. Why'd you think that it should work?
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I knew it was something so obvious I'd look right past it.

I don't know what I was thinking...

Many thanks.