Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 10:25:50 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Drew Tomlinson <drew@mykitchentable.net> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: How To Repair Vinum Subdisk? Message-ID: <20030425005550.GV49736@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <056601c30abf$661a0b40$6e2a6ba5@tagalong> References: <056601c30abf$661a0b40$6e2a6ba5@tagalong>
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--7XuS4gr/+Xj300Yp Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Thursday, 24 April 2003 at 17:12:28 -0700, Drew Tomlinson wrote: > I recently added a new drive to a concatenated plex in vinum on a > 4.8-RELEASE machine. I edited the disklabel to type 'vinum' and then > defined the drive as a subdisk in the plex. The vinum 'list' command showed > everything up and running so I used growfs to expand the file system. > Everything appeared to finish OK. > > However upon my first reboot of the system, the vinum volume won't mount and > the newly added subdisk shows a state of 'crashed'. If I stop and restart > the subdisk, then it shows a state of 'up' but the volume still won't mount > as it is 'dirty' and needs to be fsck'ed. But when I fsck the volume, the > system core dumps on a signal 6. > > This particular volume consists of 3 80GB IDE drives. The first two drives > I've had running successfully in the machine for about a year. Then when > the volume filled, I bought an additional drive, put it in a firewire > enclosure (I was out of space in the machine case), made the necessary mods > to the kernel, and then plugged the drive into the machine. Because I > haven't added any additional data to the volume, there is nothing on the new > subdisk to lose but I do want to preserve the data on the first two > subdisks. I also mention the firewire in case it makes a difference. > > Please let me know if there's any other information I can provide. I > attempted to go to www.vinumvm.org to find the details required for > assistance but the site is unreachable as of 17:10 Pacific Daylight Time on > April 24. I see accesses round this time in the web log. Anyway, I've checked, and it's accessible now. Take a look at http://www.vinumvm.org/vinum/how-to-debug.html. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers --7XuS4gr/+Xj300Yp Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+qIeWIubykFB6QiMRAgUKAJ9BfNhHs7npJe1yt3tEQMd9WY3TfQCgsQxY BZWUMuj/udg8X06P2Lb5gnI= =iMuo -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --7XuS4gr/+Xj300Yp--
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