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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[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Message on a single line. 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 -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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