From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 22 19:29:36 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0ACD116A4CE for ; Sun, 22 Feb 2004 19:29:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from ozlabs.org (ozlabs.org [203.10.76.45]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9C4643D1F for ; Sun, 22 Feb 2004 19:29:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from blackwater.lemis.com (blackwater.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD4522BD45 for ; Mon, 23 Feb 2004 14:29:33 +1100 (EST) Received: by blackwater.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 8FF4351212; Mon, 23 Feb 2004 13:59:31 +1030 (CST) Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 13:59:31 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Micheas Herman Message-ID: <20040223032931.GP87020@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20040204185203.GA14302@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> <20040212010235.GV8342@wantadilla.lemis.com> <1076556652.846.24.camel@tux> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="lG9v85r552aFjg4G" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1076556652.846.24.camel@tux> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 cc: dontspamhenk@xs4all.nl cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fixing vinum after removing a HDD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 03:29:36 -0000 --lG9v85r552aFjg4G Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Wednesday, 11 February 2004 at 19:30:52 -0800, Micheas Herman wrote: > On Wed, 2004-02-11 at 17:02, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> On Wednesday, 4 February 2004 at 19:52:03 +0100, Stijn Hoop wrote: >>> On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 07:41:48PM +0100, dontspamhenk@xs4all.nl wrote: >>>> I'm running FreeBSD 4.8 on a system with 5 HDD's. ad0 is to be removed >>>> from the system. ad1, ad2 and ad3 contain my vinum drives. FreeBSD resides >>>> on the last disk (da0). >>>> >>>> Can anyone tell me if the following procedure is the right way to do it? >>>> 1. physically remove ad0 >>>> 2. vinum resetconfig >>>> 3. change drivenumbers in vinum.conf >>>> 4. run vinum with the new configfile >>> >>> As far as my (limited) vinum knowledge goes, you really don't need to do a >>> resetconfig. >> >> Correct. From the man page: >> >> resetconfig >> The resetconfig command completely obliterates the vinum configu- >> ration on a system. Use this command only when you want to com- >> pletely delete the configuration. >> >> I'm completely baffled that people want to use this command so much. >> The correct sequence is to remove the drive, replace it with something >> else with a Vinum partition, and then start the defective objects. > > Just a guess (arm chair psychology of users), but I suspect it > is because they are thinking that they need to "re-setup" their > drive. > > Maybe deleteconfig would be a more self documenting flag. Hmm, maybe. I'll think about this. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Note: I discard all HTML mail unseen. Finger grog@FreeBSD.org for PGP public key. See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --lG9v85r552aFjg4G Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAOXObIubykFB6QiMRAg/jAKCHMYTmNA3USk0SvNu2hQMILIYMrwCfe/fc udyR/NBznAqBpAPoegiV+ag= =zE1I -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --lG9v85r552aFjg4G--