Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 09:04:49 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Drew Raines <drew-dated-1028646153.33b208@rain3s.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Striped Vinum on two drives Message-ID: <20020801233449.GB466@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20020801150427.GJ26818@mail.rain3s.net> References: <20020731211840.GN19920@mail.rain3s.net> <20020801010118.GM17787@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20020801150427.GJ26818@mail.rain3s.net>
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On Thursday, 1 August 2002 at 10:04:27 -0500, Drew Raines wrote: > Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> >> On Wednesday, 31 July 2002 at 16:18:40 -0500, Drew Raines wrote: >>> I have a machine with two hard drives: >>> >>> ad0 Maxtor 13 GB >>> da0 Fujitsu 36 GB >>> >>> I'd like to create root, swap, and usr partitions on the >>> beginning of ad0, and have the rest of the drive, as well as >>> all of da0 be one giant 45 GB filesystem. Something like: >>> >>> ad0 / >>> swap >>> /usr >>> /bigfs >>> da0 /bigfs (cont.) > > [...] > >> No, I'd consider this a fairly typical application. > > [...] > >>> Also, *can* I do it? I just want the two spindles to look >>> like one disk, striping the data accordingly. >> >> Yes, you can do that. But given the discrepancy in size >> between your disks, you might find it more useful to >> concatenate them. > > OK. I've done that, but I have a few questions. > > (1) Where did my space on /bigfs go? > > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/da0s1a 99742 33574 58190 37% / > /dev/da0s1e 3096462 81006 2767740 3% /usr > procfs 4 4 0 100% /proc > /dev/vinum/1 43187825 1 39732798 0% /bigfs > > Does it really take 3.5 GB for Vinum to store information? No. > I thought it was 265 blocks. Correct, but this is on the drive, not in the volume. The size of the volume is what you get. The file system size looks right to me. Don't forget that UFS reserves approximately 10% of the total space for root, and the value you see looks right to me. 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 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
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