2.4.1 Reinstall, ZFS Mirror, GEOM "Operation not permitted"
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I'm doing a fresh install of 2.4.1. Box previously had 2.3.4_1 installed in GEOM mirror. I want to try out ZFS mirror. When I do an AUTO ZFS install, I choose MIRROR, and choose the 2 256GB SSD disks. I hit INSTALL, and I see:
gpart: geom 'ada0' : Operation not permitted
I've done a quick search on these forums but am not seeing anything related to ZFS. I've also tried to break the mirror from the installer MANUAL method. But I'm not seeing a way to break that mirror. Every time I try to break the mirror, I'm told the root partition must exist and am taken back to the manual mode. I can't break the mirror at all. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!
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OK, so I read up a bit on RAID1 in FreeBSD. I ran the following in the SHELL in pfSense 2.4.1 installer:
gmirror list | less
This outputted the GEOM name: pfSenseMirror
I then ran:
gmirror destroy -f pfSenseMirror
Then:
gmirror clear ada0
gmirror clear ada1That finally killed the old partition and allowed me to install ZFS mirror.
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Years old but saved me tonight
Only thing is no need to rungmirror clear adax: with gmirror destroy, adax are already de-associated. It was giving me error.-S
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another three years later and saved me too!! thanks
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Saved me too with just the gmirror destroy...
Odd the memstick installer doesn't do the gmirror destroy as an option. -
