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Date:      Tue, 15 May 2001 08:29:55 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Drew Tomlinson <drewt@writeme.com>
Cc:        "FreeBSD Questions (E-mail)" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: www.vinumvm.org
Message-ID:  <20010515082954.J17428@wantadilla.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <BA5D0CE1CBB2D411B6AA00A0CC3F02390AF9DA@ldcmsx01.lc.ca.gov>; from drewt@writeme.com on Mon, May 14, 2001 at 10:02:14AM -0700
References:  <BA5D0CE1CBB2D411B6AA00A0CC3F02390AF9DA@ldcmsx01.lc.ca.gov>

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On Monday, 14 May 2001 at 10:02:14 -0700, Drew Tomlinson wrote:
> Does anyone know the IP address of http://www.vinumvm.org or its
> status?

It's up, but since it's a virtual host, an IP address won't get you
anywhere.

> I'm trying to connect but am not getting any name resolution for
> this site.  I have tried both through my work DNS and my ISP DNS
> with the same results.

*sigh* Both name servers were taken down together by a link failure.
I'll try to get a backup Real Soon Now.  It's up again, anyway.

> I am trying to setup vinum on my 4.3 system for the first time and
> need some help as I'm not understanding this very well.
> Specifically, I have 3 4.3G drives with a 100M root partition on the
> first and a 192M swap partition on the other two.  The remainder of
> the first drive has a second partition mounted as /usr.  What I
> would really like to have to keep the 100M root partition (only
> because ASFAIK one can't use vinum on root) and have a striped 384M
> swap and the remainder all of the space on all of the drives as one
> large striped partition mounted as /usr.  Is this possible?

Only if all the Vinum drives (partitions) are thee same size.

> Can anyone point me to a tutorial for this type of arrangement?

What's the problem with the man page?  There's also something on the
web site.

A couple of people have written up tutorials.  They all contained
significant mistakes.  I'm reviewing them, but I haven't finished yet.

Greg
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