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Date:      Tue, 10 Sep 2002 10:18:36 +0930
From:      Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Tim Strike <tstrike@zaq.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Vinum & disklabel - da1 through da3 vs da4s1
Message-ID:  <20020910004836.GR92060@wantadilla.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <0802E6A56AA390479CD80AD308CA66343F335E@zaq-msg-02.corp.zaq.com>
References:  <0802E6A56AA390479CD80AD308CA66343F335E@zaq-msg-02.corp.zaq.com>

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On Monday,  9 September 2002 at 17:55:17 -0400, Tim Strike wrote:
> I'm attempting to setup a vinum volume over four scsi drives (da1
> through da4) -- when I use disklabel to change the type from 'unused'
> to ' vinum', the disklabel -e <drive> works okay for da1, da2 and
> da3.  When I get to da4, it complains miserably -- so I tried
> disklabel -e da4s1 and this contains what I expect.  Is it normal to
> change the label'ing after the 4th disk (da4 would be the 5th disk)?

No.

> Any reason for this inconsistency -- it surely complicates matters
> for those unfamiliar with the internals of FBSD.

I'm sure there's a reason.  If you don't show more details, though,
it's difficult to know.  I'd guess you didn't have device nodes.

Greg
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