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From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To: jhendrex <jhendrex@freewwweb.com>
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Subject: Re: Vinum install
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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
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