From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 22 08:16:51 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 1724416A516 for ; Thu, 22 Apr 2004 08:16:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.wirewalk.com (dsl092-100-221.nyc2.dsl.speakeasy.net [66.92.100.221]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B859C43D1D for ; Thu, 22 Apr 2004 08:16:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from synrat@wirewalk.com) Received: by mail.wirewalk.com (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 67645CDC3B; Thu, 22 Apr 2004 11:32:22 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 11:32:22 -0400 (EDT) From: synrat X-X-Sender: synrat@mail.wirewalk.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20040422110437.U73285@mail.wirewalk.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: vinum requirements 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 15:16:51 -0000 does vinum configuration need to be located in the beginning of the drive after bootstrap or is it possible to store at the end of the drive ? the reason I ask is I only have 60kb available in the beginining and the first partition is /. I should be able to shrink swap, which is at the end of the drive, but I'm not sure I understand how vinum stores it's configuration. Does there need to be a separate partition for vinum that has at least enough space for configuration, which doesn't overlap with anything else ? Is the rest of vinum partition supposed to overlap with everything that I want to configure as a plex ( I'm talking about mirroring exisiting partitions ) Or should there be 2 different vinum partitions, one for configuration and another one for plexes ? I'd appreciate any suggestions. thanx you all