From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 30 22:24:28 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 297BF16A4CE for ; Tue, 30 Dec 2003 22:24:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from ozlabs.org (ozlabs.org [203.10.76.45]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4CB043D39 for ; Tue, 30 Dec 2003 22:24:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from blackwater.lemis.com (blackwater.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FD652BD3A for ; Wed, 31 Dec 2003 17:24:23 +1100 (EST) Received: by blackwater.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 35C1F5120B; Wed, 31 Dec 2003 16:54:21 +1030 (CST) Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 16:54:21 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Micheas Herman Message-ID: <20031231062421.GS10758@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <1072672057.1411.22.camel@tux> <20031229062145.GB10758@wantadilla.lemis.com> <1072681819.1411.65.camel@tux> <1072684712.1411.97.camel@tux> <1072672057.1411.22.camel@tux> <20031229062145.GB10758@wantadilla.lemis.com> <1072681819.1411.65.camel@tux> <20031231053400.GO10758@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20031231055128.GA10523@sol> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="dngyMJhgXGAL5Gb8" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20031231055128.GA10523@sol> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Booting from vinum RAID 1: How should I edit my disk label? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 06:24:28 -0000 --dngyMJhgXGAL5Gb8 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Tuesday, 30 December 2003 at 21:51:35 -0800, Micheas Herman wrote: > On 31 Dec 03, 4:04PM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> On Sunday, 28 December 2003 at 23:10:20 -0800, Micheas Herman wrote: >>> On Sun, 2003-12-28 at 22:21, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >>>> On Sunday, 28 December 2003 at 20:27:37 -0800, Micheas Herman wrote: >>>>> Hi, >>>>> 8 partitions: >>>>> # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] >>>>> a: 9216000 14966784 4.2BSD 2048 16384 28552 >>>>> b: 20942848 24182784 4.2BSD 2048 16384 28552 >>>>> c: 45126522 0 unused 0 0 # "raw" part, don't edit >>>>> d: 286720 0 4.2BSD 0 0 0 >>>> >>>> That's wrong. It should be of type Vinum. It also looks very short. >>> >>> It's 138M of a 120G hard drive, which is probably about 60M >>> more than I'll use. (assuming that I don't put more in root than >>> I did with FreeBSD 4.x) >> >> That's a bad assumption, but 138 MB would probably still be enough for >> a root file system. But do you want to put only the root file system >> under Vinum? What's on the rest of this disk? > > Slices that are currenetly working fine under vinum (guess I violated > the golden rule in ignroance) Looks like it. >>> The only downside that i see from reading "The Vinum Volume >>> Manager" is that startup and shutdown will take longer, but I >>> don't see that being much more than a once a month activity at >>> the most. 1-200 days will be a much more frequent time between >>> booting for this system. >> >> And what's the corresponding upside? > > My dump scripts will still work without modification? No, that won't make any difference. It's even possible to correct the configuration on the fly, but it's more pain than I want to describe. > I Guess my problem is that I don't see how to declare an entire disk > a vinum file system and then make subdisks. I may be missing this > in the docs, but i really don't get it. It's pretty basic to the concepts. Have you read the chapter from "The Complete FreeBSD"? If you have, and you still have problems understanding it, I'd appreciate feedback about what's not described adequately. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --dngyMJhgXGAL5Gb8 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/8muVIubykFB6QiMRAt0rAJ9MRIkA5Z9deB/cpcRqrcLpK0iYOQCdF2St sCz1c75DDUCaTGxUy4GDu0I= =Endg -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --dngyMJhgXGAL5Gb8--