From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 14 19:11:09 2004 Return-Path: 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 62A8C16A4CE; Sun, 14 Mar 2004 19:11:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from inman.medianstrip.net (usg-test8.usg.tufts.edu [130.64.100.18]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D4F543D46; Sun, 14 Mar 2004 19:11:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ben@medianstrip.net) Received: by inman.medianstrip.net (Postfix, from userid 1038) id 94B8D17403; Sun, 14 Mar 2004 22:11:08 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by inman.medianstrip.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BD47F80A; Sun, 14 Mar 2004 22:11:08 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2004 22:11:08 -0500 (EST) From: Ben To: Greg Lehey In-Reply-To: <20040315010503.GI981@adelaide.lemis.com> Message-ID: <20040314201827.M38172-100000@inman.medianstrip.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vinum messages X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 03:11:09 -0000 sorry i didn't use the proper format, and sorry for being a dumb user. i eventually figured it out, i hadn't read the Gotcha's section of your man page. for those who are interested: i took the volume offline, reset the configuration (somehow one of my subdisks had gotten into a state where it was pointing to an invalid drive), redid the configuration, and did the all important vinum start on the secondary volume. it revived, and now i have a RAID-1 mirror. thanks for the help, Ben