From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 9 21:11:09 2005 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 D2F1E16A4CE for ; Wed, 9 Mar 2005 21:11:09 +0000 (GMT) Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.194]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BB6343D1F for ; Wed, 9 Mar 2005 21:11:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from motionsiren@gmail.com) Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 70so348547wra for ; Wed, 09 Mar 2005 13:11:08 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=mTjWQpVW3aZt9RXoWlMk3fjVkLGT1y1nZeWSe3sCU79bUjr6bj2UFj0M6dA2bTgmx0qgE3Iqn3/DHFlNE882V3MICVK2V7fRACwPH0qklbwabN+k9aRJeJ8kPs7wKe+/LCeqHgjLx8VBpLLPNw1DGy/ufZ+1IRn9kK1+Ui7mA3Q= Received: by 10.54.72.6 with SMTP id u6mr1031628wra; Wed, 09 Mar 2005 13:11:08 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.54.72.20 with HTTP; Wed, 9 Mar 2005 13:11:08 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <781e2bc00503091311457b78c5@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 13:11:08 -0800 From: Benjamin Keating To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Vinum, newfs: could not open special device X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Benjamin Keating List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2005 21:11:10 -0000 Hey all. Running FreeBSD 5.3 with GENERIC kernel. This isn't high priority, but I've never had problems with Vinum before and this one's got me stumped. ######################## #### /etc/vinum.conf ### ######################## bigbang# cat /etc/vinum.conf drive a device /dev/ad4e drive b device /dev/ad5e drive c device /dev/ad6e volume backup plex org raid5 384k sd length 0 drive a sd length 0 drive b sd length 0 drive c ######################## ### MY STEPS ### 1). bsdlabel -w /dev/ad{4,5,6} 2). bsdlabel -e /dev/ad{4,5,6} 2.1). removed partiion "a" copied partition "c" and changed fstype to "vinum" :wq 3). vinum config -f /etc/vinum.conf 4). newfs /dev/vinum/backup ### PROBLEM ### newfs: /dev/vinum/backup: could not open special device