From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 6 17:13:34 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9AF9337B400 for ; Tue, 6 Aug 2002 17:13:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E69D743E77 for ; Tue, 6 Aug 2002 17:13:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 0B085812E3; Wed, 7 Aug 2002 09:43:28 +0930 (CST) Delivered-To: grog@lemis.com Received: from mx2.freebsd.org (mx2.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.119]) by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id AEA6881277 for ; Wed, 7 Aug 2002 03:07:20 +0930 (CST) Received: from hub.freebsd.org (hub.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.18]) by mx2.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0F2655F20 for ; Tue, 6 Aug 2002 10:37:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from shooverfbn@442spot.com) Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) id E811237B405; Tue, 6 Aug 2002 10:37:18 -0700 (PDT) Delivered-To: grog@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1EBA37B401; Tue, 6 Aug 2002 10:37:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.dci-corp.com (mail.dci-corp.com [65.88.13.163]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 97F3D43E6A; Tue, 6 Aug 2002 10:37:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from shooverfbn@442spot.com) Received: from cutlass442 (adsl-208-191-192-100.dsl.rcsntx.swbell.net [208.191.192.100]) by mail.dci-corp.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 888A41FAC2; Tue, 6 Aug 2002 12:37:16 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <000f01c23d70$0209bfa0$6602a8c0@swbell.net> From: "Stephen Hoover" To: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" Cc: References: <023801c23cc0$61cbaa80$320210ac@dcicorp.com> <20020806010049.GP83171@wantadilla.lemis.com> <002f01c23cf3$ccc2c070$6602a8c0@swbell.net> <20020806025655.GH86771@wantadilla.lemis.com> Subject: Re: Questions about vinum and failure of root partition Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2002 12:37:59 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-100.0 required=5.0 tests=A_FROM_IN_AUTO_WLIST version=2.01 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Questions about vinum and failure of root partition > > Hmmm ok, I must be missing something here. Let's say I had /usr > > and /home mirrored. Now the root partition (that is the boot partition) > > is NOT mirrored and the first drive fails. (wiping out the FreeBSD > > config altogether.) > > What do you mean by "FreeBSD config"? > By that I mean all of / is gone - so essentially all of the FreeBSD install is gone - i.e. FreeBSD will not boot up and run upon failure of the first drive. It sounds like (from previous emails) that some vinum info is on the second drive and I should be able to regenerate the mirror set from the second drive. (After I have reinstalled/repartitioned FreeBSD correctly of course.) I will have to test this and see how it works exactly for myself. Thanks for the insight! Stephen Hoover Dallas, Texas To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message