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Re: format /dev/ad10 or /dev/ad10s0 for getting the whole Disk as one volume in hammer
On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 7:47 AM, Matthew Dillon
<dillon@apollo.backplane.com> wrote:
> 's0' is the dummy slice for drives which do not have slice tables on
> them. I usually format a slice table with fdisk.
>
> e.g. (note: this completely destroys/reformats the hd):
>
> fdisk -IB /dev/ad8
> disklabel64 -r -w /dev/ad8s1 auto
> disklabel64 -e /dev/ad8s1
> (add 'd' partition covering the whole disk)
> (newfs_hammer -L LABEL /dev/ad8s1d)
>
>
Thanks a million Matt :-)
I got it done this way
dfly-bkpsrv# fdisk -IB /dev/ad8
******* Working on device /dev/ad8 *******
fdisk: invalid fdisk partition table found
Warning: ending cylinder wraps, using all 1's
dfly-bkpsrv# disklabel64 -r -w /dev/ad8s1 auto
dfly-bkpsrv# disklabel64 -e /dev/ad8s1
# /dev/ad8s1:
#
# Informational fields calculated from the above
# All byte equivalent offsets must be aligned
#
# boot space: 1044992 bytes
# data space: 488385523 blocks # 476938.99 MB (500106776064 bytes)
#
# NOTE: If the partition data base looks odd it may be
# physically aligned instead of slice-aligned
#
diskid: bd17ba53-02b4-11e0-b134-011617202aa6
label:
boot2 data base: 0x000000001000
partitions data base: 0x000000100200
partitions data stop: 0x007470bfd000
backup label: 0x007470bfd000
total size: 0x007470bfe200 # 476939.99 MB
alignment: 4096
display block size: 1024 # for partition display only
16 partitions:
# size offset fstype fsuuid
# EXAMPLE
#a: 4g 0 4.2BSD
#a: * * 4.2BSD
d: * * HAMMER
~
~
:wq
/tmp/EdDk.7GFS5BsOrI: 27 lines, 806 characters.
dfly-bkpsrv# disklabel64 /dev/ad8s1
# /dev/ad8s1:
#
# Informational fields calculated from the above
# All byte equivalent offsets must be aligned
#
# boot space: 1044992 bytes
# data space: 488385523 blocks # 476938.99 MB (500106776064 bytes)
#
# NOTE: If the partition data base looks odd it may be
# physically aligned instead of slice-aligned
#
diskid: bd17ba53-02b4-11e0-b134-011617202aa6
label:
boot2 data base: 0x000000001000
partitions data base: 0x000000100200
partitions data stop: 0x007470bfd000
backup label: 0x007470bfd000
total size: 0x007470bfe200 # 476939.99 MB
alignment: 4096
display block size: 1024 # for partition display only
16 partitions:
# size offset fstype fsuuid
d: 488385520 0 HAMMER # 476938.984MB
d-stor_uuid: f9fde1cd-02b4-11e0-b134-011617202aa6
dfly-bkpsrv# newfs_hammer -L Backup3 /dev/ad8s1d
Volume 0 DEVICE /dev/ad8s1d size 465.76GB
initialize freemap volume 0
initializing the undo map (480 MB)
---------------------------------------------
1 volume total size 465.76GB version 4
boot-area-size: 64.00MB
memory-log-size: 1.00GB
undo-buffer-size: 480.00MB
total-pre-allocated: 496.00MB
fsid: 652066f3-02b5-11e0-b134-011617202aa6
NOTE: Please remember that you may have to manually set up a
cron(8) job to prune and reblock the filesystem regularly.
--Siju
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