From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 15 19:12:36 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 390B837B423 for ; Tue, 15 May 2001 19:12:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id E04816ACBC; Wed, 16 May 2001 11:42:23 +0930 (CST) Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 11:42:23 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Drew Tomlinson Cc: "FreeBSD Questions (E-mail)" Subject: Re: www.vinumvm.org Message-ID: <20010516114223.C35292@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20010515082954.J17428@wantadilla.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from drewt@writeme.com on Tue, May 15, 2001 at 05:11:04PM -0700 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 Tuesday, 15 May 2001 at 17:11:04 -0700, Drew Tomlinson wrote: > On Monday, May 14, 2001 4:00 PM, Greg Lehey wrote: >> >> 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. :) Hmm, yes. Anyway, I'm getting an off-site name server, so that shouldn't happen again. >>> 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? Well, in fact, all you need is to have same-sized subdisks. But if you only want one volume, you'd have space left over if the drives weren't all the same size. The trick way to turn /usr into a Vinum volume is to make swap 265 sectors longer when installing, then place /usr immediately after swap. After installation, reboot in single user mode, shorten swap by 265 sectors and make an overlapping Vinum drive start there. The real /usr will then be at the beginning of the subdisk space, so you just need to define a plex with the same location as the /usr partition. I'll write this up in more detail some day. 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