From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 11 17:39:47 2003 Return-Path: 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 BF10437B401 for ; Wed, 11 Jun 2003 17:39:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1236B43FA3 for ; Wed, 11 Jun 2003 17:39:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 21A77527A7; Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:09:44 +0930 (CST) Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:09:44 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Mark Rowlands Message-ID: <20030612003944.GH57496@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <1055171436.1892.3.camel@big.dagerot.com> <20030610000220.GH23573@wantadilla.lemis.com> <200306112056.22474.mark.rowlands@minmail.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="PW0Eas8rCkcu1VkF" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200306112056.22474.mark.rowlands@minmail.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RAID, Vinum and different disksizes X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 00:39:48 -0000 --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--