From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 15 17:11:19 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lcmail2.lc.ca.gov (lcmail2.lc.ca.gov [165.107.12.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4290737B422 for ; Tue, 15 May 2001 17:11:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from drewt@writeme.com) Received: from CONVERSION-DAEMON by lcmail2.lc.ca.gov (PMDF V5.2-27 #40821) id <0GDE00H01J70OQ@lcmail2.lc.ca.gov> for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org; Tue, 15 May 2001 17:11:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tagalong ([165.107.42.167]) by lcmail2.lc.ca.gov (PMDF V5.2-27 #40821) with SMTP id <0GDE00JIRJ6Y8O@lcmail2.lc.ca.gov> for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org; Tue, 15 May 2001 17:11:23 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 17:11:04 -0700 From: Drew Tomlinson Subject: RE: www.vinumvm.org In-reply-to: <20010515082954.J17428@wantadilla.lemis.com> To: 'Greg Lehey' Cc: "FreeBSD Questions (E-mail)" Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook CWS, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) Content-type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Importance: Normal X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-priority: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > -----Original Message----- > From: Greg Lehey [mailto:grog@lemis.com] > Sent: Monday, May 14, 2001 4:00 PM > To: Drew Tomlinson > Cc: FreeBSD Questions (E-mail) > Subject: Re: www.vinumvm.org > > > On Monday, 14 May 2001 at 10:02:14 -0700, Drew Tomlinson wrote: > > Does anyone know the IP address of http://www.vinumvm.org or its > > status? > > It's up, but since it's a virtual host, an IP address won't get you > anywhere. Ah, but if I put it in my host table and then access it by name, I could still get to it. :) > > I'm trying to connect but am not getting any name resolution for > > this site. I have tried both through my work DNS and my ISP DNS > > with the same results. > > *sigh* Both name servers were taken down together by a link failure. > I'll try to get a backup Real Soon Now. It's up again, anyway. > > > I am trying to setup vinum on my 4.3 system for the first time and > > need some help as I'm not understanding this very well. > > Specifically, I have 3 4.3G drives with a 100M root partition on the > > first and a 192M swap partition on the other two. The remainder of > > the first drive has a second partition mounted as /usr. What I > > would really like to have to keep the 100M root partition (only > > because ASFAIK one can't use vinum on root) and have a striped 384M > > swap and the remainder all of the space on all of the drives as one > > large striped partition mounted as /usr. Is this possible? > > Only if all the Vinum drives (partitions) are thee same size. How would I do that? Take a backup of /usr, then delete it, create my Vinum drive, and then restore it? Or is there a better way? What "gotchas" might I come across? > > Can anyone point me to a tutorial for this type of arrangement? > > What's the problem with the man page? There's also something on the > web site. Nothing really. It was just a little overwhelming to me because it's (as it should be) general and covered all types of drives. I was having a difficult time extracting what I needed to do for my specific situation and was hoping for a tutorial specific to what I wanted to do. Thank you for your reply, Drew > A couple of people have written up tutorials. They all contained > significant mistakes. I'm reviewing them, but I haven't finished yet. > > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message