Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 15:32:07 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: gdunn@mac.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help With Vinum Syntax Message-ID: <20001031153207.G22110@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <00103113292800.04686@shf102107.hi.pac.army.mil>; from gdunng@mac.com on Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 01:14:52PM -1000 References: <00103113292800.04686@shf102107.hi.pac.army.mil>
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* Gary Dunn <gdunng@mac.com> [001031 15:28] wrote:
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> =-=-=-=-=
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> Stuck in vinum setup, Invalid argument error.
>
> FreeBSD 4.1 as server
> Two SCSI hard drives, da0 and da1
> Goal: - root, usr, small windows share on da0
> - apache web content on da1
> - mirrored volume for user mail storage
>
> Output of df:
>
> Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
> /dev/da0s2a 49583 26940 18677 59% /
> /dev/da0s3e 4359077 1 4010350 0% /p0
> /dev/da1s1e 4359077 1 4010350 0% /p1
--^^^^^^^^^^^ ummm...
> /dev/da0s2f 1348443 123768 1116800 10% /usr
> /dev/da0s2e 19815 242 17988 1% /var
> /dev/da0s4e 2280928 1 2098453 0% /win
> /dev/da1s2e 4242621 1 3903211 0% /www
> procfs 4 4 0 100% /proc
>
> Vinum configuration file (vinumcfg):
>
> drive a device /dev/da0s3e
> drive b device /dev/da1s1e
> volume profiles
> plex org concat
> sd length 4g drive a
> plex org concat
> sd length 4g drive b
>
using an already mounted filesystem to back a raid setup is a BAD idea.
>
> vinum -> create vinumcfg
> 1: drive a device /dev/da0s3e
> ** 1 : Invalid argument
> 2: drive b device /dev/da1s1e
> ** 2 : Invalid argument
of course, they're mounted and not fstype 'vinum' which the manpage
explains:
DRIVE LAYOUT CONSIDERATIONS
vinum drives are currently BSD disk partitions. They must be of type
vinum in order to avoid overwriting data used for other purposes. Use
disklabel -e to edit a partition type definition. The following display
shows a typical partition layout as shown by disklabel:
...
-Alfred
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