From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 15 5:33: 6 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from out0.mx.skynet.be (out0.mx.skynet.be [195.238.2.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1A2914E9E for ; Mon, 15 Mar 1999 05:33:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from blk@foxbert.skynet.be) Received: from [195.238.1.121] (brad.techos.skynet.be [195.238.1.121]) by out0.mx.skynet.be (8.9.3/odie-relay-v1.0) with SMTP id OAA26717; Mon, 15 Mar 1999 14:32:24 +0100 (MET) In-Reply-To: <19990313085052.C429@lemis.com> X-Mailer: CTM PowerMail 2.3.1 X-URL: http://www.skynet.be x-sender: blk@foxbert.skynet.be Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 14:32:36 +0100 To: Greg Lehey , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Brad Knowles Subject: Re: Vinum questions? Message-Id: <19990315143236.017324@relay.skynet.be> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Mar 13, 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: >> Any suggestions? > >RTFM (vinum(8)): This is a case where the various FMs I had read were not sufficiently explicit to inform me as to what the root cause of this problem was. A direct pointer from another poster to this list indicated the need to go back in and re-run /stand/sysinstall so that I could format the drives and get newfs to run on them, and once that had happened I was able to rip off the filesystems, change the partition maps (to add an "e" partition that mirrored the "c" partion) and attempt to reconfigure them to have vinum on them instead. And with respect to vinum and the FM -- it would help if there was a default "Use entire disk/partition" mode (which would auto-calculate the space necessary for the overhead), so that configuration would become simpler and more "point-and-shoot". -- These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy ____________________________________________________________________ |o| Brad Knowles, Belgacom Skynet NV/SA |o| |o| Systems Architect, News/mail/FTP Admin Rue Col. Bourg, 124 |o| |o| Phone/Fax: +32-2-706.11.11/12.49 B-1140 Brussels |o| |o| http://www.skynet.be Belgium |o| \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ The Sky is no longer the limit To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message