Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 10:52:35 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Markus Grundmann <mgrundmann@activezone.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Please help for a VINUM newbie Message-ID: <20011115105235.H33267@monorchid.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <001201c16b19$17d0f850$1a8292d9@activezone.org> References: <001201c16b19$17d0f850$1a8292d9@activezone.org>
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On Monday, 12 November 2001 at 2:26:32 +0100, Markus Grundmann wrote: > Hi, > > I have a complete FreeBSD 4.4 installation on my server. > The filesystem on this system has the following style: > > Primary IDE Disk (Bootsystem): > > / ad0s1a > /ftp ad0s1b You shouldn't use partition b for anything except swap. > /www ad0s1c You shouldn't use partition c for anything except the entire disk. > /db ad0s1d > /var ad0s1e > /tmp ad0s1f I rather doubt that you need that many partitions. Do you know exactly how big they need to be? Otherwise you're risking running out of space on one partition and having too much on another. > I need a (easy) RAID-1 solution with VINUM to mirror this disk to > the second device /dev/ad1 (the same drive model). You (currently) can't mirror existing partitions with Vinum. > How can i configure VINUM to hold my data on the boot disk > (/dev/ad0) and start automatic the mirroring sequence on /dev/ad1? You start again. You may find http://www.BGPBook.Com/vinum/ helpful. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html 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
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