Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 13:28:05 -0500 (EST) From: brad miele <bmiele@ipnstock.com> To: "Gustavo A. Baratto" <gbaratto@superb.net> Cc: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Subject: Re: First Use of GEOM advice Message-ID: <20060329132614.D73721@shanty.ipnstock.com> In-Reply-To: <01ca01c65354$d5c2ceb0$6500a8c0@garrincha> References: <20060329115659.T73721@shanty.ipnstock.com> <01ca01c65354$d5c2ceb0$6500a8c0@garrincha>
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Thanks, I had looked through this, and reading it through a second time made it a little clearer. What I don;t understand is how to prep the 60G drives, do i just create them as single partition ufs2? or do i have to segment them for these plex things. really sorry for my densness about this. Brad --------------------- Brad Miele IPNStock.com bmiele@ipnstock.com On Wed, 29 Mar 2006, Gustavo A. Baratto wrote: > there are step-by-step instructions in the handbook: > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/vinum-vinum.html > > Cheers > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "brad miele" <bmiele@ipnstock.com> > To: <freebsd-geom@freebsd.org> > Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2006 9:04 AM > Subject: First Use of GEOM advice > > >> Hello, >> >> I apologize in advance if this is documented somewhere, I really tried to >> find out how to do it on my own. >> >> I have a machine with 9 drives in it, one is a 40G boot drive, running >> 6.0-RELEASE from Nov 3 (a new install, i am planning to cvsup today). >> >> the other 8 are 60G Maxtor drives. Ideally i want to create a raid5 volume >> from them. Can I do this with gvinum? what are the steps, what am i not >> telling you that you need to know... >> >> Any how-to instraictions, from fdisk through setup would be greatly >> appreciated. >> >> best regards >> >> Brad >> --------------------- >> Brad Miele >> IPNStock.com >> bmiele@ipnstock.com >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-geom@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-geom >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-geom-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> > > >
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