From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 15 18:36:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57ADA15197 for ; Wed, 15 Sep 1999 18:36:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id LAA54829; Thu, 16 Sep 1999 11:06:19 +0930 (CST) Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 11:06:19 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: hsengyip@singnet.com.sg Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Vinum Mirroring Message-ID: <19990916110619.F30655@freebie.lemis.com> References: <199909160130.JAA01477@www.thatweb.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <199909160130.JAA01477@www.thatweb.com>; from hsengyip@singnet.com.sg on Thu, Sep 16, 1999 at 09:30:26AM +0000 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 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] On Thursday, 16 September 1999 at 9:30:26 +0000, hsengyip@singnet.com.sg wrote: > Hi, > > I will like to mirror my existing paritions on my primary hard disk > to my newly installed second hard disk. I read around the postings > in the mailing list and realised that Vinum could accomplished this. > > Before I start using Vinum, I will like to know if the existing data > on my primary hard disk will be affected if I convert it into a > Vinum partition? Yes. You will lose everything. Vinum partitions reserve 131 kB at the beginning of the partition for configuration information. This makes them incompatible with 4.2BSD partitions, but it also means that you can't lose them. If you pull or swap a disk in a normal 4.2BSD-based system, the drive names will change, and you'll have to go searching for them. Vinum will still find its partitions. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message