From owner-freebsd-geom@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 29 17:04:24 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83B6A16A400 for ; Wed, 29 Mar 2006 17:04:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bmiele@ipnstock.com) Received: from shanty.ipnstock.com (static-71-241-222-63.port.east.verizon.net [71.241.222.63]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4F0443D82 for ; Wed, 29 Mar 2006 17:04:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bmiele@ipnstock.com) Received: from shanty.ipnstock.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by shanty.ipnstock.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k2TH4JTK085993 for ; Wed, 29 Mar 2006 12:04:19 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from bmiele@ipnstock.com) Received: from localhost (brad@localhost) by shanty.ipnstock.com (8.13.4/8.13.3/Submit) with ESMTP id k2TH4JUH085990 for ; Wed, 29 Mar 2006 12:04:19 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from bmiele@ipnstock.com) X-Authentication-Warning: shanty.ipnstock.com: brad owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 12:04:18 -0500 (EST) From: brad miele X-X-Sender: brad@shanty.ipnstock.com To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20060329115659.T73721@shanty.ipnstock.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Subject: First Use of GEOM advice X-BeenThere: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GEOM-specific discussions and implementations List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 17:04:24 -0000 Hello, I apologize in advance if this is documented somewhere, I really tried to find out how to do it on my own. I have a machine with 9 drives in it, one is a 40G boot drive, running 6.0-RELEASE from Nov 3 (a new install, i am planning to cvsup today). the other 8 are 60G Maxtor drives. Ideally i want to create a raid5 volume from them. Can I do this with gvinum? what are the steps, what am i not telling you that you need to know... Any how-to instraictions, from fdisk through setup would be greatly appreciated. best regards Brad --------------------- Brad Miele IPNStock.com bmiele@ipnstock.com