Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 09:13:15 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: jhendrex <jhendrex@freewwweb.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Vinum install Message-ID: <20000518091315.A31123@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <3922DC0B.94BD81C7@freewwweb.com> References: <3922DC0B.94BD81C7@freewwweb.com>
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On Wednesday, 17 May 2000 at 12:51:07 -0500, jhendrex wrote: > Hi All, > This newbie's (eternal student/newbie) having trouble getting started > and a quick question. I have always detested the slackspace loss on hard > drives. Correct me if I'm wrong, Vinum seems a way to so arrange drive > configuration that a more efficient usage results (ie.,less slackspace). > > Q1) Is this not one of the potential benefits of Vinum? I don't think so, but I'm not sure what you mean by "slackspace". > Have read & studied 'til I'm blue in the face, but I am missing > something. New nstall. wd0=8.4 Gb and wd1=13 Gb. I want to setup > about 2 Gb for Dos & Win3.11, the balance to be FreeBSD 3.4. (I just > bought the 10 cdrom set including 3rd edition)I think I would like > to do a Vinum volume (concat) for each physical drive? I don't see any advantage in that. > Volume names sDc_1 & sDc_2 (either as prefix or sufix if other > verbage is needed.) Call them what you want. I personally wouldn't go for such complicated names. > We've fdisked first for DOS and left 6 Gb unused. I've experience > with a couple of Linux & FreeBSD 3.4 installs. Not much help on the > newsgroups on Vinum. <comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc> That's reasonable. Come here with your questions. > Q2) "HOW" do I start to setup and actually INSTALL Vinum. Can you > outline HOW to start? Sure: RTFM. In this case, vinum(8) and vinum(4). If you prefer, take a look at http://www.lemis.com/vinum.html, which will also explain to you what Vinum is. Or read the Book, pages 266-280. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. 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
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