From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 23 13:47: 1 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hobbes.ssbaptist.net (linux.ssbaptist.net [216.17.141.70]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA5F137B967 for ; Tue, 23 May 2000 13:46:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brad@ssbaptist.net) Received: from localhost (brad@localhost) by hobbes.ssbaptist.net (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id HAA29380 for ; Tue, 23 May 2000 07:51:55 -0600 Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 07:51:55 -0600 (MDT) From: Brad Waite X-Sender: brad@hobbes To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: problem newfsing vinum volume Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Okay, I finally got my drives installed and partitioned as follows: ad0: a: 7473152 0 4.2BSD 0 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 465*) b: 524288 7473152 swap # (Cyl. 465*- 497*) c: 80035767 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 4981*) e: 72038327 7997440 vinum # (Cyl. 497*- 4981*) ad1: c: 80041248 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 635247) e: 80041248 0 vinum # (Cyl. 0 - 635247) ad2: c: 80041248 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 635247) e: 80041248 0 vinum # (Cyl. 0 - 635247) 4 gigs of ad0 are used for FBSD and swap. The rest of ad0 and all of ad1 & ad2 are intended for vinum. Since, as I understand it, vinum requires all the subdisks to be the same size, I split the drives into 3908MB subdisks, 10 sd's on ad1 & ad2, and 9 on ad0 for a total of 29 subdisks. Here's my vinum cfg file: drive a device /dev/ad0s1e drive b device /dev/ad1s1e drive c device /dev/ad2s1e volume whopper plex org raid5 512k sd length 3908m drive a sd length 3908m drive b sd length 3908m drive c [ all 3 lines repeated 8 times ] sd length 3908m drive b sd length 3908m drive c Now I try to do a newfs: # newfs -v /dev/vinum/whopper newfs: /dev/vinum/whopper: Input/output error # vinum l whopper V whopper State: down Plexes: 1 Size: 106 GB Why can't I newfs the volume? -Brad To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message