From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 9 17:48:41 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 A355837B400 for ; Mon, 9 Sep 2002 17:48:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 648FD43E4A for ; Mon, 9 Sep 2002 17:48:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 1868F81442; Tue, 10 Sep 2002 10:18:36 +0930 (CST) Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 10:18:36 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Tim Strike Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Vinum & disklabel - da1 through da3 vs da4s1 Message-ID: <20020910004836.GR92060@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <0802E6A56AA390479CD80AD308CA66343F335E@zaq-msg-02.corp.zaq.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <0802E6A56AA390479CD80AD308CA66343F335E@zaq-msg-02.corp.zaq.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 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 [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 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