From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 26 21:34: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sydney.worldwide.lemis.com (asbestos.linuxcare.com.au [203.17.0.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F81737B42C for ; Tue, 26 Sep 2000 21:33:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from grog@localhost) by sydney.worldwide.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id PAA08617; Wed, 27 Sep 2000 15:33:31 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 15:33:31 +1100 From: Greg Lehey To: Alistair M Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: raid1 on vinum Message-ID: <20000927153331.K7583@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: ; from tlli@hotmail.com on Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 01:50:44PM -0500 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wednesday, 27 September 2000 at 13:50:44 -0500, Alistair M wrote: >> OK, now I don't understand what your problem is. The output above >> shows that all is OK. Can you newfs the volumes? Mount them? If >> not, what happens? > > I newfs-ed the vinum drives, and was able to mount them. I am not > sure what to do from here. Use them? > My final aim is to get my root partition mirrored. You'll have to wait for that. > Since I have mounted the vinum drives, do I need to copy over my / > directory to my vinum partition (eg. /m_root which is newly > mounted), because I thought by doing vinum start, data is > automatically copied over. No, that's not correct. > I am also not sure if I am supposed to do these steps: > * vinum create... > * newfs -v /dev/vinum/volume_name > * mount /dev/vinum/volume_name /mount_point > * vinum start No. vinum start is what you do after a reboot if you haven't set start_vinum. > * edit rc.conf and add start_vinum > * reboot machine You don't need to do that. > * Am I finally supposed to edit /etc/fstab and make my vinum drives > mountable instead of my original / partition. You need to add your file systems to /etc/fstab if you want them to be mounted automatically. It seems that your real problem is that you want to run vinum on the root file system. As the documentation says in a number of places, you can't do this yet. I'll try to get things in place relatively soon. For the other file systems, yes, you'll need to manually copy over the data from the old file system to the new file system. Then modify /etc/fstab to point to the new file systems. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key 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