From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 17 19:59:17 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 0ADB637B401; Thu, 17 Oct 2002 19:59:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailout6-0.nyroc.rr.com (mailout6-1.nyroc.rr.com [24.92.226.177]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9D2543E7B; Thu, 17 Oct 2002 19:59:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tparquet@twcny.rr.com) Received: from twcny.rr.com (syr-24-169-90-105.twcny.rr.com [24.169.90.105]) by mailout6-0.nyroc.rr.com (8.11.6/RoadRunner 1.20) with ESMTP id g9I2xBL04514; Thu, 17 Oct 2002 22:59:11 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3DAF78FE.1070007@twcny.rr.com> Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 22:59:10 -0400 From: Tom Parquette User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i386; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011126 Netscape6/6.2.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org, ahl@austclear.com.au Subject: Re: First time Vinum user. Setup problems References: <3DAF5B95.9030905@twcny.rr.com> <20021018010848.GH20173@wantadilla.lemis.com> <3DAF673F.5050006@twcny.rr.com> <20021018015603.GA28167@wantadilla.lemis.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 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