Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 14:33:36 -0600 (MDT) From: Brad Waite <brad@ssbaptist.net> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: problem newfsing vinum volume Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10005231427170.29319-100000@hobbes> In-Reply-To: <20000524110521.B96290@freebie.lemis.com>
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On Wed, 24 May 2000, Greg Lehey wrote: > > 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? > > Because it's down. > > It's difficult to know why, since you haven't supplied the information > asked for in the man page and http://www.lemis.com/vinum/how-to-debug.html. It's difficult to supply the information asked for, since I wasn't aware of that url. :) As it turns out, it's happily newfsing now. I hadn't init'ed it, so it couldn't be up, and couldn't be newfsed. I read the part about a raid starting in the init state, but couldn't find anything about the init command until I stumbled across it in the list archives. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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