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| author | Tom Rhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org> | 2008-12-23 12:07:28 +0000 |
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| committer | Tom Rhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org> | 2008-12-23 12:07:28 +0000 |
| commit | ae6381451fb69dfdd6d79eb83364812e1bb4fe0c (patch) | |
| tree | f28ca5dc756bdda6612232bbbf87e09de17d8358 /en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/geom | |
| parent | 3a79129cfeb2a21db9ce5ceb5b8f298267fd0181 (diff) | |
| download | doc-ae6381451fb69dfdd6d79eb83364812e1bb4fe0c.tar.gz doc-ae6381451fb69dfdd6d79eb83364812e1bb4fe0c.zip | |
Add a warning about gmirror truncating the last sector, which may, in
some cases, cause data loss.
PR: 128804
Reviewed by: keramida, pgj, rene (as part of a larger change set)
Notes
Notes:
svn path=/head/; revision=33494
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, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/geom/chapter.sgml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/geom/chapter.sgml index 5a77ca0352..f3553fed31 100644 --- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/geom/chapter.sgml +++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/geom/chapter.sgml @@ -264,6 +264,13 @@ Done.</screen> <filename class="devicefile">/dev/mirror/gm</filename> device using the following command:</para> + <warning> + <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> + </warning> + <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>gmirror label -vb round-robin gm0 /dev/da0</userinput></screen> <para>The system should respond with:</para> |