From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 29 6:56: 8 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from s1.uklinux.net (ns1.uklinux.net [212.1.130.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 974C937B71D for ; Thu, 29 Mar 2001 06:55:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from neil@darlow.co.uk) Received: from ideal.darlow.co.uk (mail@ppp-2a-162.3com.telinco.net [212.159.130.162]) by s1.uklinux.net (8.11.2/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f2TEtpT04693 for ; Thu, 29 Mar 2001 15:55:51 +0100 Envelope-To: Received: from ideal.darlow.co.uk ([172.16.0.1] ident=neil) by ideal.darlow.co.uk with smtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 14idoi-00053p-00 for ; Thu, 29 Mar 2001 15:54:28 +0100 From: Neil Darlow Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 14:54:28 GMT Message-ID: <20010329.14542800@ideal.darlow.co.uk> Subject: Can anyone help a newbie with vinum? To: FreeBSD Questions X-Mailer: Mozilla/3.0 (compatible; StarOffice/5.2;Linux) X-Priority: 3 (Normal) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi All, Can anyone please help this newbie with setting up a RAID1 mirror, using vinum, on freebsd-stable? I've done this sort of thing before on Linux and OpenBSD (RaidFrame) but the vinum documentation is confusing me somewhat. I'm assuming that I can't create a root-raid configuration, so I'd be happy with this setup: /dev/ad0s1a /root 256M /dev/ad2s1a /altroot 256M /dev/ad0s1b swap 256M /dev/ad2s1b swap 256M ??? /home 3G ??? /home 3G ??? /tmp 1G ??? /tmp 1G ??? /usr 2G ??? /usr 2G ??? /var 3G ??? /var 3G The two drives are 10G IDE and I'll scale the mirrored parts to fit the available capacity. These figures are illustrative only. My questions are: 1) What is the vinum filesystem type number (for partitioning)? 2) Do I create a single vinum partition to hold all the mirrored components, or do I create separate ones for each? 3) I can install a minimal system into / and then configure the vinum stuff afterwards. How do I best configure this? Any, and all, help will be greatfully received. Regards, Neil Darlow. -- 1024D/531F9048 1999-09-11 Neil Darlow Key fingerprint =3D 359D B8FF 6273 6C32 BEAA 43F9 E579 E24A 531F 9048 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message