From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 8 17:43:22 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 AE46A16A4CE; Mon, 8 Nov 2004 17:43:22 +0000 (GMT) Received: from post-23.mail.nl.demon.net (post-23.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.193]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 417DA43D6E; Mon, 8 Nov 2004 17:43:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from FreeBSD@amadeus.demon.nl) Received: from amadeus.demon.nl ([82.161.18.200]:49480 helo=[10.0.1.1]) by post-23.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CRDY1-000J2F-2S; Mon, 08 Nov 2004 17:43:21 +0000 In-Reply-To: <20041106231906.GH24507@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <4180C06A.3050509@navix.net> <41848906.20901@navix.net> <3BFD1887-2B3D-11D9-9DDD-0003939726F0@amadeus.demon.nl> <20041106231906.GH24507@wantadilla.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: FreeBSD questions mailing list Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2004 18:43:14 +0100 To: Greg 'groggy' Lehey X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619) cc: freebsd cc: matt virus Subject: Re: vinum disklabel FBSD 5.2.1.... 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, 08 Nov 2004 17:43:22 -0000 On 07 nov 2004, at 00:19, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > On Sunday, 31 October 2004 at 14:03:18 +0100, FreeBSD questions > mailing list wrote: >> >> On 31 okt 2004, at 07:41, matt virus wrote: >> >>> matt virus wrote: >>>> Hi all! >>>> I have (8) maxtor 160gb drives I plan on constructing a vinum raid5 >>>> array with. >>>> the devices are: >>>> ad4....ad11 >>>> All drives have been fdisk'd and such, >>>> ad4s1d.....ad11s1d >>>> The first step of setting up vinum is changing the disklabel >>>> disklabel -e /dev/ad4 >>>> The disk label says it has 8 partitions, but only the A and C >>>> partitions are shown... >>>> **********MY DISKLABEL******** >>>> # /dev/ad4: >>>> 8 partitions: >>>> # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] >>>> a: 320173040 16 unused 0 0 >>>> c: 320173056 0 unused 0 0 # "raw" part, don't >>>> edit >>>> ****************************** >> > >> c: is not a valid disk label. You need to create one first. See the >> example below first: there's an "e" label. You can do this in >> sysinstall: Configure / Label / ad4 and then C to create one. Once >> that's done it'll show up in disklabel as you write below. Then in >> disklabel you can change the 4.2BSD to vinum. > > You should also not use 'c' for Vinum. > > Greg > -- Bit of confusion from my side: I meant C as the key that should be pressed to create a new slice not as a name for a disklabel Arno