From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 8 9:17:55 2002 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 68C2C37B401 for ; Sun, 8 Dec 2002 09:17:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from web14508.mail.yahoo.com (web14508.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.224.71]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1E64243EBE for ; Sun, 8 Dec 2002 09:17:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mruby2003@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20021208171753.30498.qmail@web14508.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [64.192.122.173] by web14508.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sun, 08 Dec 2002 09:17:53 PST Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2002 09:17:53 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Ruby Subject: vinum question - Is this possible? To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This is my plan: 1. Set up an empty 40G drive with vinum. 2. Copy what I need from another 40G drive to it. 3. Erase the second drive and set it up with vinum, too, so that I have a mirrored set containing the original data (or most of it, anyway). Is this possible? If so, I'm not at all clear about how I should go about it. In a trial run, I had no problems with setting up the empty drive with vinum, but then writing a second configuration to the same drive as an experiment resulted in a non-functioning system. (Further research confirms this was the wrong thing to do.) I originally assumed I could simply follow the instructions for replacing a failed drive, but after reading them, am puzzled about how (if it's possible at all) to "create the impression" of there having been a drive that now needs to be rebuilt. Can anyone offer some suggestions? Many thanks, Matt __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message