From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 21 17:55:17 2004 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 1B80716A4CE for ; Wed, 21 Apr 2004 17:55:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ozlabs.org (ozlabs.org [203.10.76.45]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B5DC43D41 for ; Wed, 21 Apr 2004 17:55:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from blackwater.lemis.com (blackwater.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 574342BD7B for ; Thu, 22 Apr 2004 10:55:13 +1000 (EST) Received: by blackwater.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id D48175122E; Thu, 22 Apr 2004 10:25:09 +0930 (CST) Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 10:25:09 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: "Shaun T. Erickson" Message-ID: <20040422005509.GC13249@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <4086E78C.1090008@smxy.org> <4086F59F.7080302@potentialtech.com> <20040421224616.GC76172@wantadilla.lemis.com> <4086FF84.5090404@smxy.org> <4087131E.2030000@smxy.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="dTy3Mrz/UPE2dbVg" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4087131E.2030000@smxy.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i 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: Bill Moran cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Need vinum info/advice, fast. 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, 22 Apr 2004 00:55:17 -0000 --dTy3Mrz/UPE2dbVg Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Wednesday, 21 April 2004 at 20:34:38 -0400, Shaun T. Erickson wrote: >> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/vinum-root.html > >> http://www.vinumvm.org/cfbsd/vinum.pdf > > Ok. I've read both documents, which were quite educational. Thanks. :) > > It seems that what I want to do is install to the first system disk, as > normally, and then convert that disk to a vinum disk, using the method > described starting on page 237 of the above vinum.pdf. > > The steps aren't entirely clear to me, after that, as to how to make the > second disk a vinum drive that is a mirror of the first. > > Do I just partition it as normally, but saying that the partition types > are type vinum? Then do I format those new partitions, and then describe > the volume, plexes and subdisks in the configuration file, adding each > subdisk to the existing setup so it will mirror? Do I ever even have to > format thos partitions, or does vinum just recreate the filesystems bit > by bit? > > I'm not sure I'm asking the right questions. Pointers are most > welcome. :) Page 229, "Adding plexes to an existing volume", tells you what to do. 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 Note: I discard all HTML mail unseen. Finger grog@FreeBSD.org for PGP public key. See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --dTy3Mrz/UPE2dbVg Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAhxftIubykFB6QiMRAndBAJ9sHnyrATIaWz3VDOADwIuq2pVmUACePEaL jNXGGCyoUmGfceW2gBkzj3g= =MZJv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --dTy3Mrz/UPE2dbVg--