From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 31 06:41:25 2004 Return-Path: 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 E59A916A4CE for ; Sun, 31 Oct 2004 06:41:25 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mattvirushome.dynu.com (h139-055-212-202.adsl.navix.net [139.55.212.202]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E08B143D3F for ; Sun, 31 Oct 2004 06:41:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mattvirus@navix.net) Received: from [192.168.0.27] (mattvirus.net [209.0.51.9]) i9V6fKUF053672 for ; Sun, 31 Oct 2004 01:41:21 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from mattvirus@navix.net) Message-ID: <41848906.20901@navix.net> Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 01:41:10 -0500 From: matt virus User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (Windows/20040913) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd References: <4180C06A.3050509@navix.net> In-Reply-To: <4180C06A.3050509@navix.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: vinum disklabel FBSD 5.2.1.... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 06:41:26 -0000 nobody ??? matt virus wrote: > Hi all! > > I have (8) maxtor 160gb drives I plan on constructing a vinum raid5 > array with. > > the devices are: > > ad4....ad11 > > All drives have been fdisk'd and such, > ad4s1d.....ad11s1d > > The first step of setting up vinum is changing the disklabel > disklabel -e /dev/ad4 > > The disk label says it has 8 partitions, but only the A and C partitions > are shown... > > **********MY DISKLABEL******** > # /dev/ad4: > 8 partitions: > # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] > a: 320173040 16 unused 0 0 > c: 320173056 0 unused 0 0 # "raw" part, don't edit > > ****************************** > > Now, i know i have to change *something* to "vinum" but i'm unsure > which one, or if I need to actually add a line or ??? > > This is my first time playing with vinum, i've read a handful of howtos > and all the documentation I find shows the disklabel looking like this: > > *****HOWTO's Disklabel******** > # disklabel da0 > [snip] > # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] > a: 1024000 1024000 4.2BSD 2048 16384 90 > b: 1024000 0 swap > c: 17912412 0 unused 0 0 > e: 15864412 2048000 vinum > ******************************** > > (source: http://org.netbase.org/vinum-mirrored.html) > > Any direction is appreciated :-) > > -matt > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- Matt Virus ("veer-iss") www.mattvirus.net