Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 09:44:21 +1000 From: Tony Landells <ahl@austclear.com.au> To: kam@salsolutions.net Cc: grog@lemis.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Vinum volume restore help? *UPDATE#1 Message-ID: <200104092344.JAA02675@tungsten.austclear.com.au> In-Reply-To: Message from "Kam Salisbury" <netalchemist@hotmail.com> of "Mon, 09 Apr 2001 19:10:35 GMT." <F236WC9ddOOwjf55O8000002b9e@hotmail.com>
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Hi Kam, Just to ask the bleeding obvious... I assume these disks are actually being detected during booting? As I understand it, you were already using these disks, and already had vinum running on them. If that's the case then the disklabels should still be there, and you should be able to inspect them with, for example, "disklabel -r ad3". If the disks are detected but you can't see the labels, then I'd say you're in a heap of trouble... The other thing I don't understand is exactly what changed on your system--I know you said you set up a new root partition, but was that a disk swap for the one that used to be the root partition, or were you running root from a different disk and have now added a new disk to the system that you've installed root on? The reason I ask is that vinum stores its configuration on each vinum "device" (as I understand it), so if all you did was a disk swap, then you shouldn't have to change anything for your mirror. At all. All the information should be sitting on the disks waiting to be accessed (disk labels, vinum configuration, ...). If you added a new disk to the system, then maybe you've changed your device numbers. If I'm off track, perhaps it would be helpful if you described what you started with, and how you changed it, which may then generate some ideas of how it might have broken. Cheers, Tony -- Tony Landells <ahl@austclear.com.au> Senior Network Engineer Ph: +61 3 9677 9319 Australian Clearing Services Pty Ltd Fax: +61 3 9677 9355 Level 4, Rialto North Tower 525 Collins Street Melbourne VIC 3000 Australia To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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