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Date:      Sun, 7 Nov 2004 09:49:06 +1030
From:      Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>
To:        FreeBSD questions mailing list <FreeBSD@amadeus.demon.nl>
Cc:        freebsd <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: vinum disklabel FBSD 5.2.1....
Message-ID:  <20041106231906.GH24507@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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On Sunday, 31 October 2004 at 14:03:18 +0100, FreeBSD questions mailing list wrote:
>
> On 31 okt 2004, at 07:41, matt virus wrote:
>
>> matt virus wrote:
>>> Hi all!
>>> I have (8) maxtor 160gb drives I plan on constructing a vinum raid5
>>> array with.
>>> the devices are:
>>> ad4....ad11
>>> All drives have been fdisk'd and such,
>>> ad4s1d.....ad11s1d
>>> The first step of setting up vinum is changing the disklabel
>>> disklabel -e /dev/ad4
>>> The disk label says it has 8 partitions, but only the A and C
>>> partitions are shown...
>>> **********MY DISKLABEL********
>>> # /dev/ad4:
>>> 8 partitions:
>>> #        size   offset    fstype   [fsize bsize bps/cpg]
>>>  a: 320173040       16    unused        0  0
>>>  c: 320173056        0    unused        0  0 # "raw" part, don't edit
>>> ******************************
>

> c: is not a valid disk label. You need to create one first. See the
> example below first: there's an "e" label.  You can do this in
> sysinstall: Configure / Label / ad4 and then C to create one.  Once
> that's done it'll show up in disklabel as you write below.  Then in
> disklabel you can change the 4.2BSD to vinum.

You should also not use 'c' for Vinum.

Greg
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