From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 23 23: 5:42 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B009937B400 for ; Fri, 23 Aug 2002 23:05:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8A5043E42 for ; Fri, 23 Aug 2002 23:05:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 589CA81277; Sat, 24 Aug 2002 15:35:32 +0930 (CST) Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2002 15:35:32 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: pg@eth1.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /dev/vinum/vinum0 not configured Message-ID: <20020824060532.GF87563@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20020824053022.94683.qmail@web9708.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020824053022.94683.qmail@web9708.mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.99i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Friday, 23 August 2002 at 22:30:22 -0700, c/o Peter Gatsoulis wrote: > Hi > > i use vinum a lot but just now when i try to make the > following config i get a strange failed situation > > FBSD 4.5 > > there are (3) IDE 120GB disks > > i took enough space for the main FBSD slice on the > first disk, and i made 3 swap areas, 1 swap area per > disk. > > The rest of the space i allocate to a concat vinum > volume and it builds fine as /dev/vinum/vinum0 > > i lay out a newfs on it and run a fsck just to check > it out and it works great, i can now mount it, i can > start filling it up w/ files, make new dirs etc, all > seems well UNTIL a reboot > > upon a reboot i get that the /dev/vinum/vinum0 device > is not configured.. and i drop into single user mode > because i had put /dev/vinum/vinum0 into my fstab Do you have start_vinum=YES in your /etc/rc.conf? > i can't do anything, can't run fsck against it cause supposedly it > doesn't exist, i gotta resetconfig and do it over again w/ same > result .. No, that's not correct. There's a vinum subcommand to create the devices. You almost NEVER (YES, I'M SHOUTING) need to use vinum resetconfig. Read what the man page says: The resetconfig command completely obliterates the vinum configu- ration on a system. Use this command only when you want to completely delete the configuration. You don't want to delete the configuration, you're trying to get it back. Probably in your case 'vinum start' would do what you want. > is this because i have such large disk areas that i'm > assigning to this vinum volume? i'm assigning > 1st disk 60GB > 2nd disk 80GB > 3rd disk 80GB No. There are much larger Vinum volumes. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message