From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 5 15:42:56 2004 Return-Path: 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 5C25416A4CE for ; Mon, 5 Apr 2004 15:42:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ozlabs.org (ozlabs.org [203.10.76.45]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1487243D53 for ; Mon, 5 Apr 2004 15:42:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from blackwater.lemis.com (blackwater.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFB412BD7B for ; Tue, 6 Apr 2004 08:42:51 +1000 (EST) Received: by blackwater.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id E33F151215; Tue, 6 Apr 2004 08:12:49 +0930 (CST) Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2004 08:12:49 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Rob Ellis , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20040405224249.GX99363@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20040405164212.GB58790@web.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="NSMZpQbVhecteEXU" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040405164212.GB58790@web.ca> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i 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 Subject: Re: Vinum + new disk for mirror X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 05 Apr 2004 22:42:56 -0000 --NSMZpQbVhecteEXU Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Monday, 5 April 2004 at 12:42:12 -0400, Rob Ellis wrote: > We have a machine with a vinum mirror, all the partitions except > the root partition mirrored between two disks. The second > disk has died and I want to replace it. I can't find a disk exactly > the same, so I have a disk that's bigger (80GB, old one was 60GB). That's not a problem. Vinum doesn't use disks. > Can I... > > - shutdown, replace the bad disk with the bigger new disk > - boot single user, mount / > - copy the good disk to the new disk with: > dd bs=128k if=/dev/ad0 of=/dev/ad2 > - vinum start > - restart any stale subdisks (?) > - ... You can, though you'll need a couple more steps. But why don't you follow the instructions? http://www.vinumvm.org/vinum/replacing-drive.html or http://www.vinumvm.org/cfbsd/vinum.pdf. 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 Note: I discard all HTML mail unseen. Finger grog@FreeBSD.org for PGP public key. See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --NSMZpQbVhecteEXU Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAceDpIubykFB6QiMRAqGWAJ9d0dvvU3UvBZiAGSarcis/QYCZYwCeOsLD w21InGvMcQEaOfVL3pRJpBI= =Ml5J -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --NSMZpQbVhecteEXU--