Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:09:44 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Mark Rowlands <mark.rowlands@minmail.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RAID, Vinum and different disksizes Message-ID: <20030612003944.GH57496@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <200306112056.22474.mark.rowlands@minmail.net> References: <1055171436.1892.3.camel@big.dagerot.com> <20030610000220.GH23573@wantadilla.lemis.com> <200306112056.22474.mark.rowlands@minmail.net>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
--PW0Eas8rCkcu1VkF Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Wednesday, 11 June 2003 at 20:56:22 +0200, Mark Rowlands wrote: > 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 ? Sure. But that's not what I was suggesting. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers --PW0Eas8rCkcu1VkF Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+58vQIubykFB6QiMRAk8RAKCC5FjeGHeggKPzbUUrMqAbYkDlOgCgjO/z HxfpTsdfP7QehZ+H07YyNC0= =b1or -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --PW0Eas8rCkcu1VkF--
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20030612003944.GH57496>