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Date:      Mon, 5 May 2003 11:56:16 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Harti Brandt <brandt@fokus.fraunhofer.de>
To:        James Taylor <jtx@hatesville.com>
Cc:        freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Vinum under Sparc64
Message-ID:  <20030505115350.I53365@beagle.fokus.fraunhofer.de>
In-Reply-To: <009e01c31053$b8e23bb0$4500a8c0@theplague>
References:  <009e01c31053$b8e23bb0$4500a8c0@theplague>

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On Thu, 1 May 2003, James Taylor wrote:

JT>I'm trying to get vinum setup to create a raid5 array, but am running
JT>into some snags due to the lack of disklabel support.  From what I
JT>understand, to do any partition management you need to run sysinstall to
JT>create your partitions.  The only options here after creating partitions
JT>however is to set it up as either ufs or swap.  How would you go about
JT>setting the partition type to vinum without being able to run disklabel
JT>-e?

I did a newfs on my partitions for vinum and then just called vinum to
build the array. I don't know why that worked, but it did.

harti
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