Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 10:36:29 -0600 (MDT) From: Randy Smith <randys@amigo.net> To: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Paul Mather <paul@gromit.dlib.vt.edu>, "freebsd-stable@freebsd.org" <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: vinum question Message-ID: <20020620101846.I6594-100000@stalker.amigo.net> In-Reply-To: <20020619235517.GK29978@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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On Thu, 20 Jun 2002, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 09:25:17 +0930 > From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> > To: Randy Smith <randys@amigo.net> > Cc: Paul Mather <paul@gromit.dlib.vt.edu>, > "freebsd-stable@freebsd.org" <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> > Subject: Re: vinum question > > > I didn't do it when I attached the second subdisk. (The volume has > > been in use a while and wiping the FS is not really an option.) > > That's what growfs is for. I didn't see a pointer to the growfs man page from vinum(8), newfs(8), or disklabel(8). Can I suggest that a link get added to, at least, vinum(8). > > > vinum(8) says that "It is possible to increase the size of a > > concatenated vinum plex ..." so I would think that it could handle > > it. Maybe I'm wrong. > > Vinum can handle it. But Vinum just gives you a storage medium, it > doesn't change the data on that medium. > > Greg BTW: I had to growfs -y to get it to work but it did finally work. (I was getting 'No Changes'.) Thank you for your help. -- Randy Smith Amigo.Net Systems Administrator 1-719-589-6100 x 4185 http://www.amigo.net/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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