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Subject: Re: Pre-geom vinum compatibility
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> I have a 4.11-R box that I'm planning on reinstalling a fresh 6.2-R on.  Not an "upgrade", but a fresh binary install after newfsing the system partitions.
>
> A remaining planning issue is that I have a pre-GEOM vinum data volume on other disks.  The handbook mentions gvinum retaining the same disk metadata.  Does this mean that I should be able to mount that 4.11 vinum volume after 6.2 and gvinum is installed on the system disk?
>
> Anything I should watch out for?
>
to be sure export vinum definitions to file (it includes beginning and 
ending sector of each subdisk) and if gvinum won't take it itself, just 
use it file with create