From owner-freebsd-stable Wed May 24 19:48:30 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from peak.mountin.net (peak.mountin.net [207.227.119.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E35C337B83B for ; Wed, 24 May 2000 19:48:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jeff-ml@mountin.net) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by peak.mountin.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) id VAA02032; Wed, 24 May 2000 21:47:46 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from jeff-ml@mountin.net) Received: from dial-106.max1.wa.cyberlynk.net(207.227.118.106) by peak.mountin.net via smap (V1.3) id sma002030; Wed May 24 21:47:45 2000 Message-Id: <4.3.2.20000524214116.00c7c100@207.227.119.2> X-Sender: jeff-ml@207.227.119.2 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3 Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 21:46:27 -0500 To: "Brandon D. Valentine" , Ben Carlson From: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" Subject: Re: Vinum Question Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: References: <4.3.0.20000524085507.00aca1e0@pilot.msu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 03:51 PM 5/24/00 -0400, Brandon D. Valentine wrote: >On Wed, 24 May 2000, Ben Carlson wrote: > > > > >I just got the Vinum working on FreeBSD 4.0 stable, everything worked great. > >I have two 30 gig drives that concatenated together just great. I did > have one > >quick question, I have a 20 gig drive that I want to add to the two 30 gig > >drives, > >but it has stuff on it, will putting it together with the other two drives > >destroy the > >data that is on the drive? > >Erm, why not copy the data off of the 20GB drive onto the 60GB vinum >disk, then add that 20GB drive to the plex? Because you cannot expand the file system on the 60GB volume. Until this is possible the ability to expand a volume isn't very useful. You can add the 20GB drive and make an 80GB volume, but without a 'newfs' you will not be able to use the extra 20GB. Jeff Mountin - jeff@mountin.net Systems/Network Administrator FreeBSD - the power to serve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message