From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 13 15:10:44 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31D0B16A4CE for ; Wed, 13 Oct 2004 15:10:44 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ip212-226-164-78.adsl.kpnqwest.fi (ip212-226-164-93.adsl.kpnqwest.fi [212.226.164.93]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F292343D58 for ; Wed, 13 Oct 2004 15:10:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mjraiha@ip212-226-164-78.adsl.kpnqwest.fi) Received: from ip212-226-164-78.adsl.kpnqwest.fi (localhost [127.0.0.1]) i9DFAfJU067548 for ; Wed, 13 Oct 2004 18:10:41 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from mjraiha@ip212-226-164-78.adsl.kpnqwest.fi) Received: (from mjraiha@localhost)i9DFAfXv067547 for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Wed, 13 Oct 2004 18:10:41 +0300 (EEST) Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 18:10:41 +0300 From: Marko Raiha To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20041013151041.GD60427@daemon.adsl.kpnqwest.fi> References: <200410121602.i9CG2kOr082691@hugo10.ka.punkt.de> <20041013071207.GL98575@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> <20041013093207.GM98575@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> <20041013122714.M566@korben.prv.univie.ac.at> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20041013122714.M566@korben.prv.univie.ac.at> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Time-Zone: FI EET, 3 hours east of GMT. X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE i386 Subject: Re: Geom Vinum backwards compatible? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 15:10:44 -0000 Hi, On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 12:28:22PM +0200, Lukas Ertl wrote: > On Wed, 13 Oct 2004, Stijn Hoop wrote: > >I haven't tried this with geom_vinum, but using the old vinum I could > >grow the BSD partition that contained my vinum "drive", then restart > >vinum which would recognize more free space on it's "drive" and then add > >another subdisk on that same drive. I've done this around a year ago, so > >this might not work exactly as described but it is possible. > > That should work with geom_vinum as well, although I haven't tried yet. Is it possible to grow vinumized BSD partition only from the end or also from the beginning? > >Even more likely to work is just adding another BSD partition on your > >bigger drive, add that as a new vinum drive and then add > >subdisks/plexes on top. > > That's the way to go, but just make sure you have only one vinum drive per > disk. I have more than one vinum drive per disk and thats why I'm asking about growing vinumized partition to get rid of other than one of them before upgrading from 5.2.1 to 5.3. Thanks, -- Marko Räihä