Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2001 19:10:35 -0000 From: "Kam Salisbury" <netalchemist@hotmail.com> To: grog@lemis.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Vinum volume restore help? *UPDATE#1 Message-ID: <F236WC9ddOOwjf55O8000002b9e@hotmail.com>
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Well, I have been trying to duplicate the situation using VMware (great program for anyone just "trying things out") and noticed that one of the steps for creating my vinum volumes from the FreeBSD Diary is that I have to "disklabel -e ad3" so that I can change the volume type to vinum. I do remember last night when looking at the volume types via this method that there was nothing in there. In other words, there was not an existing entry for a 4.2BSD slice to edit into a vinum type... Should I just fake it and put one in? Using VMware as a tool I saw the following... # /dev/ad1c: type: ESDI disk: ad1s1 label: flags: bytes/sector: 512 sectors/track: 63 tracks/cylinder: 255 sectors/cylinder: 16065 cylinders: 254 sectors/unit: 4095630 rpm: 3600 interleave: 1 trackskew: 0 cylinderskew: 0 headswitch: 0 # milliseconds track-to-track seek: 0 # milliseconds drivedata: 0 8 partitions: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] c: 4095630 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 254*) e: 4095630 0 vinum # (Cyl. 0 - 254*) There is not a second entry line for the slice in my system anymore. Since I am using the entire deidcated disk should I just duplicate the above line? Kam. >From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> >To: kam@salsolutions.net >CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: Re: Vinum volume restore help? >Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 10:18:01 +0930 > >On Sunday, 8 April 2001 at 15:58:41 -0000, Kam Salisbury wrote: > > Ok, I admit my cavalier attitude may have gotten me into more trouble >than a > > command shell can fix this time. > > > > I saved my configuration files for my vinum mirror and installed a new >root > > file system (ad4) 10GB. The vinum mirror is on ad6 and ad7, both 20GB > > drives. I can restore my vinum.conf but cannot figure out how to get the > > vinum mirror back. I am reluctant to issue a "newfs..." command like >what is > > found in the instructions at freebsddiary.org (how I made my mirror in >the > > first place) > >newfs blows away your data. There's no reason to do that. > > > "Any" help or even an admonishment is helpful and appreciated as there >is > > about 7GB of data on that mirror which is now backed up. > > > > I know, I know... I am not looking good because of the lack of a backup >for > > the data. I blame this on my click-n-play NT background where you can >just > > break the mirror and re-create it again. Problem is, I am so unfamiliar >with > > vinum I am afraid to issue commands in the man pages that say "for >emergency > > use only" > > > > Help? > >Well, having read this, I'm still not sure what problems you're >having. What happens when you try to start Vinum? You should >also take a look at http://www.vinumvm.org/vinum/how-to-debug.html and >supply me with any relevant information you have there. > >Greg >-- >When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. >If you don't, I may ignore the reply. >For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html >Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key >See complete headers for address and phone numbers > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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