From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 24 17: 3:18 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 1492E37B401 for ; Tue, 24 Sep 2002 17:03:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ns5.eds.com (ns5.eds.com [203.17.185.230]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7103F43E4A for ; Tue, 24 Sep 2002 17:03:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from siegfried.pietralla@eds.com) Received: from nnsy.eds.com (nnsy-3.eds.com [192.168.1.1]) by ns5.eds.com (8.11.6/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g8ONmLX02848 for ; Wed, 25 Sep 2002 09:48:22 +1000 (EST) Received: from nnsy.eds.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nnsy.eds.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g8ONmJE01108 for ; Wed, 25 Sep 2002 09:48:20 +1000 (EST) Received: from ausym000.exau01.exch.eds.com ([134.251.177.117]) by nnsy.eds.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g8ONmJn01099 for ; Wed, 25 Sep 2002 09:48:19 +1000 (EST) Received: by AUSYM000 with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Wed, 25 Sep 2002 09:47:51 +1000 Message-ID: <16649A8D5C73D51183B80008C728EEB7CC0B18@AUSYM103> From: "Pietralla, Siegfried P" To: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: lost vinum config Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 09:48:22 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" 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 hi all, i'm running 4.3 on partition ad0s3. i tried to install 4.6.2 on ad3s2 and when i booted back up on ad0s3 i lost my vinum partition which lives in ad3s4a ( i did not note down the error message :( so don't ask :) ). i did a ' dd if=/dev/ad3s4a | od -c ' and it looked as though my vinum config was still there. so i reran my vinum create script and recreated all my volumes and i got back all my filesystems :) is there a one liner i can use to recover vinum under these circumstances ? or should i just keep a copy of the first nnn blocks of the vinum partition somewhere else as a backup ? or can you generate a vinum create script from your existing configuration ? thanx, siegfried. siegfried pietralla ( siegfried.pietralla@eds.com ) ph: +61(0)3 9675 3234 fax: +61(0)3 9675 3440 mob: +61(0)4 0481 6140 location: 15th floor 2-26 Elizabeth Street, Melbourne mail: Siegfried Pietralla 15/2, Colonial Account, EDS Australia, 436 St Kilda Rd, Melbourne Vic, 3004, Australia To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message