Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 12:28:22 +0200 (CEST) From: Lukas Ertl <le@FreeBSD.org> To: Stijn Hoop <stijn@win.tue.nl> Cc: Ryan Hunt <ryan@ryanhunt.net> Subject: Re: Geom Vinum backwards compatible? Message-ID: <20041013122714.M566@korben.prv.univie.ac.at> In-Reply-To: <20041013093207.GM98575@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> References: <200410121602.i9CG2kOr082691@hugo10.ka.punkt.de> <20041013071207.GL98575@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> <20041013093207.GM98575@pcwin002.win.tue.nl>
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On Wed, 13 Oct 2004, Stijn Hoop wrote: > I haven't tried this with geom_vinum, but using the old vinum I could > grow the BSD partition that contained my vinum "drive", then restart > vinum which would recognize more free space on it's "drive" and then add > another subdisk on that same drive. I've done this around a year ago, so > this might not work exactly as described but it is possible. That should work with geom_vinum as well, although I haven't tried yet. > Even more likely to work is just adding another BSD partition on your bigger > drive, add that as a new vinum drive and then add subdisks/plexes on top. That's the way to go, but just make sure you have only one vinum drive per disk. cheers, le -- Lukas Ertl http://homepage.univie.ac.at/l.ertl/ le@FreeBSD.org http://people.freebsd.org/~le/
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