From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 31 18: 1:26 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 637A137B400 for ; Wed, 31 Jul 2002 18:01:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78B0543E70 for ; Wed, 31 Jul 2002 18:01:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id A90BF812EA; Thu, 1 Aug 2002 10:31:18 +0930 (CST) Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2002 10:31:18 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Drew Raines Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Striped Vinum on two drives Message-ID: <20020801010118.GM17787@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20020731211840.GN19920@mail.rain3s.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020731211840.GN19920@mail.rain3s.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.99i 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 Wednesday, 31 July 2002 at 16:18:40 -0500, Drew Raines wrote: > I have a machine with two hard drives: > > ad0 Maxtor 13 GB > da0 Fujitsu 36 GB > > I'd like to create root, swap, and usr partitions on the > beginning of ad0, and have the rest of the drive, as well as all > of da0 be one giant 45 GB filesystem. Something like: > > ad0 / > swap > /usr > /bigfs > da0 /bigfs (cont.) > > I read Bob Van Valzah's bootstrapping guide and successfully > created a Vinum-powered system with / on ad0 and /rootback on > da0, etc., etc.. I intended to just wet my feet before > customizing my configuration. > > Unfortunately, I'm still unsure of how to get to where I'm going > after doing this. In fact, I'm wondering if what I want is too > simple for Vinum, or even ccd. No, I'd consider this a fairly typical application. > So is this worth doing? Possibly. > Won't I be able to resize and move filesystems around afterward? No. You can't resize striped plexes. > Also, *can* I do it? I just want the two spindles to look like one > disk, striping the data accordingly. Yes, you can do that. But given the discrepancy in size between your disks, you might find it more useful to concatenate them. 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