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| author | Manolis Kiagias <manolis@FreeBSD.org> | 2011-11-21 18:11:25 +0000 |
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| committer | Manolis Kiagias <manolis@FreeBSD.org> | 2011-11-21 18:11:25 +0000 |
| commit | 79b50061e138cc3f2dffec2447d2484367ca9848 (patch) | |
| tree | 7e4c2b2aa1d094ff14e0fda644ab0c8e57aba4e5 /en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/geom | |
| parent | 8cc501e87d1975e9b6984dbeae9ebbde81d5e5d0 (diff) | |
| download | doc-79b50061e138cc3f2dffec2447d2484367ca9848.tar.gz doc-79b50061e138cc3f2dffec2447d2484367ca9848.zip | |
Add a warning on using GEOM mirroring on GPT partitioned disks, the
default scheme used on FreeBSD 9.X
PR: docs/162723
Submitted by: Michael W. Lucas <mwlucas at blackhelicopters dot org>
Notes
Notes:
svn path=/head/; revision=37963
Diffstat (limited to 'en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/geom')
| -rw-r--r-- | en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/geom/chapter.sgml | 7 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/geom/chapter.sgml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/geom/chapter.sgml index 86388a1fcb..b74b700ef2 100644 --- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/geom/chapter.sgml +++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/geom/chapter.sgml @@ -268,7 +268,12 @@ Done.</screen> <para>Creating a mirror out of the boot drive may result in data loss if any data has been stored on the last sector of the disk. This risk is reduced if creating the mirror is - done promptly after a fresh install of &os;.</para> + done promptly after a fresh install of &os;. The following + procedure is also incompatible with the default installation + settings of &os; 9.<replaceable>X</replaceable> which + use the new <acronym>GPT</acronym> partition scheme. GEOM + will overwrite <acronym>GPT</acronym> metadata, causing data + loss and possibly an unbootable system.</para> </warning> <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>gmirror label -vb round-robin gm0 /dev/da0</userinput></screen> |