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Date:      Sat, 23 Jan 1999 06:24:17 +0800
From:      Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>
To:        Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
Cc:        Jake <jake@checker.org>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: vinum read no longer works 
Message-ID:  <199901222224.GAA36415@spinner.netplex.com.au>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 23 Jan 1999 08:17:08 %2B1030." <19990123081708.I5697@freebie.lemis.com> 

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Greg Lehey wrote:
> On Friday, 22 January 1999 at  9:23:48 -0800, Jake wrote:
> > I can no longer bring up my vinum volume with the vinum read
> > command:
> >
> > vinum read /dev/wd0s1e /dev/wd2s1f
> > vinum read /dev/wd0s1e
> > vinum read /dev/wd2s1f
> >
> > all come back with
> > vinum: no drives
> 
> Correct.  As I explained in detail in my HEADS UP message a couple of
> days ago, you must now specify drives, not partitions.  The correct
> command might be
> 
>   vinum read /dev/wd0 /dev/wd2

Does vinum scan the slices?  What if there are two freebsd slices?  From
vinumhdr.h, it looks like it totally ignores slices.  If somebody is
working on a disk shared with something else (eg: DOS/windoze), then
perhaps the examples should be:  vinum read /dev/wd0s1 /dev/wd2s1

Cheers,
-Peter



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