Date: 09 Sep 2003 19:47:05 +0200 From: Simon Strandgaard <qj5nd7l02@sneakemail.com> To: Greg "Lehey grog-at-lemis.com "|stuff| <yyoohkydny0t@sneakemail.com>, freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: vinum: no drives found && partitiontype=vinum ? Message-ID: <1063129621.2318.10.camel@server.neoneye.home> In-Reply-To: <20030909152918.GA6224@adelaide.lemis.com> References: <1062927100.3117.18.camel@server.neoneye.home> <20030909152918.GA6224@adelaide.lemis.com>
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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
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