Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 11:34:40 -0700 From: Drew Tomlinson <drewt@writeme.com> To: "FreeBSD Questions (E-mail)" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Vinum Help Message-ID: <BA5D0CE1CBB2D411B6AA00A0CC3F02390AF9DB@ldcmsx01.lc.ca.gov>
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I am trying to setup vinum on my 4.3 system for the first time and need some
help as I'm not understanding this very well. Specifically, I have 3 4.3G
drives with a 100M root partition on the first and a 192M swap partition on
the other two. The remainder of the first drive has a second partition
mounted as /usr. What I would really like to have to keep the 100M root
partition (only because ASFAIK one can't use vinum on root) and have a
striped 384M swap and the remainder all of the space on all of the drives as
one large striped partition mounted as /usr. Is this possible? Can anyone
point me to a tutorial for this type of arrangement?
My first quest is an attempt to take the free space left on da1 and da2 and
create a stripe set. Here is my feeble attempt at a configuration file:
drive disk1 /dev/da1h
drive disk2 /dev/da2h
volume user
plex org striped 510k
sd length 3899m drive disk1
sd length 3899m drive disk2
When trying to create the stripe set, I get the following error from vinum:
vinum -> create -f /path/to/vinum.conf
1: drive disk1 /dev/da1h
** 1 Drive disk1, invalid keyword: /dev/da1h: Invalid argument
2: drive disk2 /dev/da2h
** 2 Drive disk2, invalid keyword: /dev/da2h: Invalid argument
0 drives:
1 volumes:
V user State: down Plexes: 1 Size: 7797 MB
1 plexes:
P user.p0 S State: faulty Subdisks: 2 Size: 7797 MB
2 subdisks:
S user.p0.s0 State: crashed PO: 0 B Size: 3898 MB
S user.p0.s1 State: crashed PO: 510 kB Size: 3898 MB
Both of these disks are identical and this is the output of disklabel:
blacklamb# disklabel da1
# /dev/da1c:
type: SCSI
disk: da1s1
label:
flags:
bytes/sector: 512
sectors/track: 9
tracks/cylinder: 64
sectors/cylinder: 576
cylinders: 14548
sectors/unit: 8380080
rpm: 3600
interleave: 1
trackskew: 0
cylinderskew: 0
headswitch: 0 # milliseconds
track-to-track seek: 0 # milliseconds
drivedata: 0
8 partitions:
# size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg]
b: 393216 0 swap # (Cyl. 0 - 682*)
c: 8380080 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 -
14548*)
In my vinum.conf file, I am using the "h" partition only because that is
what is shown in the man page examples. What I don't understand is do I
have to somehow use disklabel to create a vinum file partition? The
/stand/sysinstall only allows me to create a file system or swap partition.
I've tried the man page for disklabel but have failed to see how or if I can
create a vinum partition.
Thanks for your help. As you can probably tell, this is very new to me and
I'm just not getting it yet.
Thanks,
Drew
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