Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 23:26:48 -0700 From: Thomas Smith <tom@openadventures.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Need Vinum help Message-ID: <3F4AFDA8.1000801@openadventures.org> In-Reply-To: <20030826013415.GK45617@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <3F4AB59D.1010802@openadventures.org> <20030826013415.GK45617@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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Okay, I'm getting closer. I've got the drives relabeled with a FSType of
vinum. Now, I can't seem to get them both up. When I run "vinum create
-f /etc/vinum.conf" it creates the a1 drive but shows a2 as "State:
referenced". The config file is as follows:
drive a1 device /dev/ad0a
drive a2 device /dev/ad1e
volume root setupstate
plex org concat
sd length 36g drive a1
plex org concat
sd length 36g drive a2
The previous error no longer occurs since I'm now setting the FStype to
vinum via disklabel.
Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
>On Monday, 25 August 2003 at 18:19:25 -0700, Thomas Smith wrote:
>
>
>>I think I have the process of creating a Vinum volume but I'm missing
>>something.
>>
>>My config file (config1) contains:
>>
>>drive a device /dev/ad0
>>volume root
>> plex org concat
>> sd length 36g drive a
>>
>>When I run /vinum create config1/ I get the error "Can't initialize
>>device a: Operation not supported by device"
>>
>>I've huffed, and I've puffed, and I've blown over many a page of docs
>>and can't seem to figure out what gives.
>>
>>
>
>Try this part of the man page:
>
>DRIVE LAYOUT CONSIDERATIONS
> vinum drives are currently BSD disk partitions. They must be of type
> vinum in order to avoid overwriting data used for other purposes. Use
> disklabel -e to edit a partition type definition. The following display
> shows a typical partition layout as shown by disklabel(8):
>
> 8 partitions:
> # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg]
> a: 81920 344064 4.2BSD 0 0 0 # (Cyl. 240*- 297*)
> b: 262144 81920 swap # (Cyl. 57*- 240*)
> c: 4226725 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 2955*)
> e: 81920 0 4.2BSD 0 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 57*)
> f: 1900000 425984 4.2BSD 0 0 0 # (Cyl. 297*- 1626*)
> g: 1900741 2325984 vinum 0 0 0 # (Cyl. 1626*- 2955*)
>
> In this example, partition ``g'' may be used as a vinum partition. Par-
> titions ``a'', ``e'' and ``f'' may be used as UFS file systems or ccd
> partitions. Partition ``b'' is a swap partition, and partition ``c''
> represents the whole disk and should not be used for any other purpose.
>
> The vinum utility uses the first 265 sectors on each partition for con-
> figuration information, so the maximum size of a subdisk is 265 sectors
> smaller than the drive.
>
>
>
>>The FStype in /etc/fstab for / is ufs--as I understand it, Vinum
>>needs an FStype of vinum.
>>
>>
>
>No. It requires a partition type 'vinum'
>
>Greg
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