Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 22:59:10 -0400 From: Tom Parquette <tparquet@twcny.rr.com> To: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog@FreeBSD.org> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org, ahl@austclear.com.au Subject: Re: First time Vinum user. Setup problems Message-ID: <3DAF78FE.1070007@twcny.rr.com> References: <3DAF5B95.9030905@twcny.rr.com> <20021018010848.GH20173@wantadilla.lemis.com> <3DAF673F.5050006@twcny.rr.com> <20021018015603.GA28167@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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Greg, Thank you. I got it running and I was able to mount /dev/vinum/public on /mnt. df -H shows 97Gig which is very close to what I was expecting. Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > There are no "-v values". -v says "be verbose". Stupid user error #1. > >>I've seen a couple of different things in the various articles and >>man pages. I concluded from my reading, possibly incorrectly, that >>I had to allocate filesystems on the disks for vinum to use. >>e.g. ad5s1e. >> > > Yes, that's incorrect. This is probably because you haven't allocated > type "vinum" to your slices. From the man page: > > DRIVE LAYOUT CONSIDERATIONS > vinum drives are currently BSD disk partitions. They must be of type > vinum in order to avoid overwriting data used for other purposes. Use > disklabel -e to edit a partition type definition. > I'm calling this Stupid user error #2. I focused on the section of the vinum man page you quoted then I went back and looked at the disklabel man page. disklabel -e /dev/ad5 got me some error about the drive not supporting this function. This was what was throwing me for a loop. The other times, I just continued on. disklabel -e /dev/ad5s1e gave me "e" that I could edit. Going back to the vinum man page, in 20-20 hindsight, I found the reference to using more than just ad5 to edit the label. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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