gmirror: Provider ad6 too small.

[ustuntas]

Hi all,

I have a problem on gmirror. I have two identical SATA disks.
I installed on gmirror ad4 as says as FreeBSD Documentation.

My disk informations as follows;

Disk name: ad4 FDISK Partition Editor
DISK Geometry: 30401 cyls/255 heads/63 sectors = 488392065 sectors (238472MB)

Disk name: ad6 FDISK Partition Editor
DISK Geometry: 30401 cyls/255 heads/63 sectors = 488392065 sectors (238472MB)

when inserting ad6 in gm0
# gmirror insert gm0 /dev/ad6
the FreeBSD says, `gmirror: Provider ad6 too small.`

What is the problem? I install gmirror too many system with
identical disks. But, i coultnt take any message like that.

Regards,

ustuntas

 

[Orige]

Hi I saw your doubts and I have the same problem. You managed to solve it?
If you did, how did you?

Thanks...

 

[semi-ambivalent]

Perhaps unknown partitioning?

ustuntas,

I've had this problem twice with some old SCSI disks. First, the smaller disk really was a tiny bit smaller, even though it was the same "size" and the same model number. I installed a minimal system on the smaller disk, mounted it on the system and copied the valid system to it, and told the controller to boot the smaller disk. then I told gmirror to forget the first raid and inserted it into the raid based on the smaller disk. A lot of work, but less work than re-doing the original install.

The second case was fixed by dd-ing /dev/zero to the "smaller" disk, which was then accepted by gmirror on the larger. Can't say why. Don't care.

sa

 

[Orige]

Gmirror commands

Hi all..

Man , i believe which your problem happened because the commands of gmirror on Freebsd was wrong.
I tried these commands and not worked:

gmirror label -vb round-robin gm0 ad4 ad6

Try these commands:
Here is working ..

gmirror label -vb load gm0 ad4 ad6
gmirror load

gmirror rebuild gm0 ad6
gmirror configure -a

Don't forget edit /etc/fstab and /boot/loader.conf

I was send two private emails with all explanations,
I hope I have helped

Regards,

Orige