From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 9 10:43:48 2003 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 4E20816A4BF for ; Tue, 9 Sep 2003 10:43:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pfepa.post.tele.dk (pfepa.post.tele.dk [193.162.153.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 523FE43FFD for ; Tue, 9 Sep 2003 10:43:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from qj5nd7l02@sneakemail.com) Received: from [10.0.0.253] (0x50c4101e.boanxx9.adsl-dhcp.tele.dk [80.196.16.30]) by pfepa.post.tele.dk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D6A847FE77; Tue, 9 Sep 2003 19:43:31 +0200 (CEST) From: Simon Strandgaard To: Greg "Lehey grog-at-lemis.com "|stuff| , freebsd-questions In-Reply-To: <20030909152918.GA6224@adelaide.lemis.com> References: <1062927100.3117.18.camel@server.neoneye.home> <20030909152918.GA6224@adelaide.lemis.com> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Message-Id: <1063129621.2318.10.camel@server.neoneye.home> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.4 Date: 09 Sep 2003 19:47:05 +0200 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: vinum: no drives found && partitiontype=vinum ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: qj5nd7l02@sneakemail.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2003 17:43:48 -0000 On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 17:29, Greg Lehey grog-at-lemis.com |stuff| wrote: > On Sunday, 7 September 2003 at 11:31:41 +0200, Simon Strandgaard wrote: [snip] > > I can start it manualy: > > > > server# vinum create config1 > > 2 drives: > > D a State: up /dev/ad1s1c A: 39166/39266 MB (99%) > > D b State: up /dev/ad2s1c A: 229/329 MB (69%) > > This is a bug in Vinum. It shouldn't let you start it manually. It feelt really ackward. I had overseen the 'setupstate' flag and it solved the problem partialy for me :-) > >From the man page: > > DRIVE LAYOUT CONSIDERATIONS [snip] > In this example, partition ``g'' may be used as a vinum partition. Par- > titions ``a'', ``e'' and ``f'' may be used as UFS file systems or ccd > partitions. Partition ``b'' is a swap partition, and partition ``c'' > represents the whole disk and should not be used for any other purpose. [snip] > Choose a different partition, and reset partition c to "unused". Yes, I also oversaw this in the man pages. I figured it out last night with trial'n'error, Now im using partition 'e:'. Now vinum works perfectly for me. I appreciate your help, thanks :-) I find vinums man pages is very good, but maybe the dd/fdisk/disklabel sections are a bit vague and confusing for newcomers. What do you think? -- Simon Strandgaard