From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 23 1:57:33 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99DA514C16 for ; Fri, 23 Jul 1999 01:57:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id SAA01056; Fri, 23 Jul 1999 18:27:25 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id SAA34613; Fri, 23 Jul 1999 18:27:24 +0930 (CST) Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 18:27:23 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Joao Carlos Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vinum Message-ID: <19990723182723.K84734@freebie.lemis.com> References: <000701bed49f$66e7abe0$fa58dfc8@bahianet.com.br> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <000701bed49f$66e7abe0$fa58dfc8@bahianet.com.br>; from Joao Carlos on Thu, Jul 22, 1999 at 09:07:38PM -0300 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thursday, 22 July 1999 at 21:07:38 -0300, Joao Carlos wrote: > may i use vinum to mirror a disk is already working without losing data ??? Well, not if you mean to mirror the existing partition with a new one. Vinum takes up about 128 kB of space at the beginning of the partition. > i mean...i have a 6gb disk with many (important) data. I bought another 6gb > disk (identical) and wat to mirror it.... can i do it without losing data?? One way you could do it is like this: 1. Create a new volume with one plex, on the second disk only. 2. Copy the existing data to the vinum volume. 3. Check that everything worked! 4. Remove the original data and create another plex in its place. 5. Attach the plex to your volume. 6. Start the plex. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message