Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 11:09:41 -0800 From: "Mike Maltese" <mike@pcmedx.com> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Cc: Chris Howells <howells@kde.org> Subject: Re: Vinum and reserved space Message-ID: <006801c3a887$5c2473d0$f4f0a8c0@pcmedx.com> References: <3189.192.168.1.104.1068570867.squirrel@sauron>
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> I've just bought 2 x 160GB drives which I want to RAID 1 with vinum. I > used /stand/sysinstall to fdisk and disklabel them, mounted them as /temp1 > and /temp2 and checked the size of them using 'df' to stick into my > vinum.conf file. > > I'm a bit confused though; the output of df does not include the 8% or > whatever of the slice that is reserved for root by default. Therefore I > was wondering if I should turn the reserved space down to 0%, check the > space using df, and use that in my vinum.conf. The reasoning is that when > I run 'newfs /dev/vinum/sauron1', more drive space will be reserved, so > I'll have two lots of reserved space on each drive which seems wrong. > > Currently df -h output looks like this, which isn't too impressive for > 160GB drives: > > /dev/vinum/sauron1 131G 1.0K 120G 0% /vinum > > vinum.conf looks like: > > drive alpha device /dev/ad6s1e > drive beta device /dev/ad7s1e > volume sauron1 setupstate > plex org concat > sd length 141537128k drive alpha > plex org concat > sd length 141537128k drive beta man tunefs
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