From owner-freebsd-geom@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 29 18:28:08 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4D2616A420 for ; Wed, 29 Mar 2006 18:28:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bmiele@ipnstock.com) Received: from shanty.ipnstock.com (static-71-241-222-63.port.east.verizon.net [71.241.222.63]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5629043D46 for ; Wed, 29 Mar 2006 18:28:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bmiele@ipnstock.com) Received: from shanty.ipnstock.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by shanty.ipnstock.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k2TIS6Zf086385; Wed, 29 Mar 2006 13:28:06 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from bmiele@ipnstock.com) Received: from localhost (brad@localhost) by shanty.ipnstock.com (8.13.4/8.13.3/Submit) with ESMTP id k2TIS5u3086382; Wed, 29 Mar 2006 13:28:06 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from bmiele@ipnstock.com) X-Authentication-Warning: shanty.ipnstock.com: brad owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 13:28:05 -0500 (EST) From: brad miele X-X-Sender: brad@shanty.ipnstock.com To: "Gustavo A. Baratto" In-Reply-To: <01ca01c65354$d5c2ceb0$6500a8c0@garrincha> Message-ID: <20060329132614.D73721@shanty.ipnstock.com> References: <20060329115659.T73721@shanty.ipnstock.com> <01ca01c65354$d5c2ceb0$6500a8c0@garrincha> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Subject: Re: First Use of GEOM advice X-BeenThere: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GEOM-specific discussions and implementations List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 18:28:09 -0000 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" > To: > 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" >> > > >