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Subject: Re: RAID, Vinum and different disksizes
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On Tuesday 10 June 2003 2:02 am, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
> On Monday,  9 June 2003 at 17:10:37 +0200, freeBSD wrote:
> > I have three 120GB disks and one 170GB disk. The first three is forming
> > a raid-5 volume using Vinum and the last one is just fooling around
> > without any purpose.

>
> > I do realise that I will loose 50Gb, but that's better than not
> > using it at all.
>
> You can make another volume out of that.
>

Really?  Every time I think I have understand some of the vinum man page, 
along comes groggy to bugger me up.........so I could label a disk with a 
vinum partition and a freebsd partion (if I can figure out the maths 
correctly)?


f: 29696000        0           4.2BSD  0     0    0   # (Cyl.    0 - 29460*)
h: 1020280   29696000     vinum                      # (Cyl. 29460*- 30472*)
c: 30716280        0          unused        0     0    # (Cyl.    0 - 30472*)

sort of like that ?