From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 28 18: 1:51 2002 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 979BD37B401 for ; Thu, 28 Nov 2002 18:01:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2154B43E4A for ; Thu, 28 Nov 2002 18:01:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 3DE8651916; Fri, 29 Nov 2002 12:31:37 +1030 (CST) Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2002 12:31:37 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Adam Laurie Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vinum documentation Message-ID: <20021129020137.GC8307@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <3DE244ED.8000903@algroup.co.uk> <20021125224557.GJ41068@wantadilla.lemis.com> <3DE353C7.5080704@algroup.co.uk> <20021126232050.GB21404@wantadilla.lemis.com> <3DE5EAA0.4030009@algroup.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3DE5EAA0.4030009@algroup.co.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i 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 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thursday, 28 November 2002 at 10:06:24 +0000, Adam Laurie wrote: > Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > >>> >>> yep. like all the others i've found, this deals with fixing problems >>> within the raid itself, not moving a working raid onto a new system >>> (which is effectively what i was doing). >> >> >> No, it addresses exactly your problem, modulo the fact that your >> plexes were RAID-5. I'd be interested in what makes you think it's >> different. > > ok, i'm obviously not making myself clear... my problem wasn't > replacing a drive in the RAID, it was replacing the root disk. the > system booted off a seperate stand alone root disk. the RAID is entirely > independant of the root/boot drive. Yes, you're certainly not making yourself clear. Why did you need to do anything? In a previous message you stated that you did a 'vinum create', though it's not clear why. I suggest you send me (in private mail) the information I ask for in the man page. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message