Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 19:30:52 -0800 From: Micheas Herman <micheas@freep.org> To: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fixing vinum after removing a HDD Message-ID: <1076556652.846.24.camel@tux> In-Reply-To: <20040212010235.GV8342@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0402041701510.17812@shell.dds.nl> <20040204185203.GA14302@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> <20040212010235.GV8342@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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On Wed, 2004-02-11 at 17:02, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
> On Wednesday, 4 February 2004 at 19:52:03 +0100, Stijn Hoop wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 07:41:48PM +0100, dontspamhenk@xs4all.nl wrote:
> >> I'm running FreeBSD 4.8 on a system with 5 HDD's. ad0 is to be removed
> >> from the system. ad1, ad2 and ad3 contain my vinum drives. FreeBSD resides
> >> on the last disk (da0).
> >>
> >> Can anyone tell me if the following procedure is the right way to do it?
> >> 1. physically remove ad0
> >> 2. vinum resetconfig
> >> 3. change drivenumbers in vinum.conf
> >> 4. run vinum with the new configfile
> >
> > As far as my (limited) vinum knowledge goes, you really don't need to do a
> > resetconfig.
>
> Correct. From the man page:
>
> resetconfig
> The resetconfig command completely obliterates the vinum configu-
> ration on a system. Use this command only when you want to com-
> pletely delete the configuration.
>
> I'm completely baffled that people want to use this command so much.
> The correct sequence is to remove the drive, replace it with something
> else with a Vinum partition, and then start the defective objects.
Just a guess (arm chair psychology of users), but I suspect it
is because they are thinking that they need to "re-setup" their
drive.
Maybe deleteconfig would be a more self documenting flag.
Micheas
>
> It depends on the volume structures as to whether the data can still
> be recovered.
>
> Greg
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