From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 26 21:20:56 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5218337B401 for ; Fri, 26 Jan 2001 21:20:34 -0800 (PST) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 9241F6A936; Sat, 27 Jan 2001 15:50:28 +1030 (CST) Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 15:50:28 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Alexey Koptsevich Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vinum detach Message-ID: <20010127155028.M12091@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from ak@astro.ioffe.rssi.ru on Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 08:16:44AM +0300 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Saturday, 27 January 2001 at 8:16:44 +0300, Alexey Koptsevich wrote: > > Greg, > >> Not quite. You're apparently talking about a single plex, either >> itself detached or the only plex in a volume. You can't move data to >> another subdisk, because that would destroy the data in the other >> subdisk. Under these circumstances, the detach would fail unless you >> use the -f option, in which case you would damage the plex. > > You are right, I am about to install volume with single plex, just to > concatenate drives. So I would better ask: is it possible to replace one > of subdisks in concatenated plex if there is enough free space on disks > which remain in the plex? Or the only way is to copy the data somewhere > and then rearrange the volume (i.e plex)? Presumably you're using the volume for a file system. The newfs program write the file system structure to the entire volume (or disk partition), so even if the file system had no data at all in it, you would damage it irreparably by removing a subdisk. Why do you want to do this? Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message