Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 13:59:57 +0200 From: Emil Stoyanov <emosto@web.de> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gvinum help Message-ID: <442A76BD.7080707@web.de>
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brad miele wrote: >> Profuse apologies for any wrong list, missed faqs, etc. But I am >> looking for help with using gvinum to set up a raid volume. I have >> read the handbook, and I sort of understand how it works, I just >> cannot seem to figure out how to "do" it. >> >> My setup is a box running 6.0-RELEASE, I have 1 200G wd drive that I >> have set up as the os and I have 6 200G wd drives that I want to >> combine in a raid (hopefully 5, but just knowing how to do any would >> be great). >> >> Any pointers to howto docs ins the form of "first do this, then do >> thiis, etc." would be helpful mostly I don't understand ow to prepare >> the drives in the array to be used by gvinum. I could probably figure >> out he rest on my own given enough time and monkeys. >> > > There is an article on the O'Reilly BSD Devcenter about setting up software RAID 1 with FreeBSD as a step by step tutorial. Here is the link: http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2005/11/10/FreeBSD_Basics.html I hope it helps. Cheers, Emil
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