Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 18:26:24 +0100 From: rene@xs4all.nl To: Johan Pettersson <johpe159@student.liu.se> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vinum (again) Message-ID: <3768.000227@xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <38B955BB.11A2D435@student.liu.se> References: <38B955BB.11A2D435@student.liu.se>
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Hija Johan,
Sunday, February 27, 2000, 17:50:03, you seem to have written:
JP> Hello!
JP> have a newbie question about vinum!
JP> Have tried following config file:
Okay, I've been here before. I know what the 'invalid partition type'
thing is.
DISCLAIMER: I'm just a newbie too, but I happen to have gotten it
to work (with help) on my machine. I could be wrong anywhere, and
appreciate it if I'm corrected.
[root@messenger:/ date/time: Sun Feb 27/18:06:53]
13# disklabel -er wd0
results in editting, probably with vi if you have a
standard-installed system :
For more info on VI, type "man vi" on the commandline.
# /dev/rwd0c:
type: SCSI
disk: wd0s1
label:
flags:
bytes/sector: 512
sectors/track: 63
tracks/cylinder: 255
sectors/cylinder: 16065
cylinders: 1232
sectors/unit: 19807200
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]
c: 19807200 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 1232*)
d: 19807200 0 vinum # (Cyl. 0 - 1232*)
Now, at the bottom there's the interesting stuff, 2 partitions
defined, the last line being most important. It makes sure /dev/wd0d
is a vinum-type partition which I can use in my vinum config file.
If you're a Windoze/DOS loser like myself, then at first it might
seem strange that the two partition-definitions seem to overlap. But
I guess that's just the way
BTW: the command "-er" parameters for disklabel makes sure that
after you close vi, the information is ACTUALLY updated.
Do this for all drives you intend to use in your vinum config.
JP> drive a device /dev/wd1h <--is this right ?
JP> drive b device /dev/wd2h
No, that becomes
drive a device /dev/wd1d
drive b device /dev/wd2d
JP> volume myvol
JP> plex org concat
JP> sd length 512m drive a
JP> sd length 512m drive b
vinum->> create config
<snip>
After creating the thing, it still needs to be initialized and
formatted, check the docs on that (forgotten it myself)..
Okay, so creating your config should work now, and you should have
succeeded in formatting your vinum volume.
But then you ofcourse want to see it mounted at startup; I also had
problems with that, the docs tell you to put "start_vinum="YES"" in
/etc/rc.conf, but that doesn't start it up yet, unfortunately.
I've had to add the following lines to /etc/rc
if [ "$start_vinum" ]; then
vinum start
fi
The last step is that it needs to be mounted, at boot prefferably.
I didn't see a standard place for it, so I created /mnt/large for my
vinum volume. You need to tell the system to this aswell, so
/etc/fstab gets the following line added:
/dev/vinum/myvol /mnt/large ufs rw,noauto 1 2
this should work for you aswell
Greetings,
rene <mailto:rene@xs4all.nl>
http://www.business2.com/articles/2000/02/content/getalife_3.html
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