From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 12 0:58:53 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from relay.ioffe.rssi.ru (relay.ioffe.rssi.ru [194.85.224.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A2C337B783 for ; Mon, 12 Mar 2001 00:58:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kopts@astro.ioffe.rssi.ru) Received: from astro.ioffe.rssi.ru (astro.ioffe.rssi.ru [194.85.229.130]) by relay.ioffe.rssi.ru (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id LAA24010; Mon, 12 Mar 2001 11:58:28 +0300 (MSK) Received: by astro.ioffe.rssi.ru (8.9.3/Clnt-2.14-AS-eef) id LAA03702; Mon, 12 Mar 2001 11:58:27 +0300 (MSK) Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 11:58:27 +0300 (MSK) From: Alexey Koptsevich To: Greg Lehey Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: recover of failed vinum partition In-Reply-To: <20010312094232.U57126@wantadilla.lemis.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, > > I have simple vinum concat partition of two drives of different sizes, but > > they reside on identical drives. One (the first) drive has crashed and it > > is completely unavailable for the moment. Unfortunately I have made an > > error when tried to revive partition and at the moment I have this failed > > drive replaced by another vinum partition in the vinum configuration. This > > partition has different size than the original (failed) one. Is there a > > way to restore the part of the disc which resides on the drive which has > > not crashed? I.e., is there a way to recreate the old vinum configuration > > somehow and then carry out correct revival procedure? I know parameters of > > the drive, they are identical to those which has not failed. > > It would be nice to have a few details of your current situation. The > output of "vinum list" would help. >vinum list 1 drives: D a State: up Device /dev/ad2s1f Avail: 99/100 MB (100%) D b State: referenced Device Avail: 0/0 MB 1 volumes: V mega State: up Plexes: 2 Size: 8601 MB 2 plexes: P mega.p0 C State: faulty Subdisks: 1 Size: 8601 MB P mega.p1 C State: up Subdisks: 0 Size: 0 B 1 subdisks: S mega.p0.s1 State: crashed PO: 0 B Size: 8601 MB > If you only have one plex in the volume, you're basically hosed. ufs > doesn't provide for recovery of partial file systems. Yes, I have only one plex. So, it is impossible in princile to recover the data which reside on partially lost filesystem? Yours, Alex To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message