Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 07:32:49 -0500 (EST) From: "Dan Mahoney, System Admin" <danm@prime.gushi.org> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: vinum Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0101260724560.69768-100000@prime.gushi.org>
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Okay, I've been at this the better part of the night, and reading the mailing list doesn't seem to help. I'm pertty much at this point: I need to label a partition for vinum. From what I can gather from Greg's postings the disk does not have to have any partitions on it, nor does it have to have any slices labeled. All it seems to need is disklabel -e. >>> At this point I have not done anything to the disk's (like newfs or >>> /stand/sysinstall) they are low-level formatted only. >> >> That's all you need. I'm assuming that you're using an older version >> of FreeBSD. Do 'disklabel -e da0' and it should work. (in my case it's ad4 and ad6, but...) # /dev/ad4: type: unknown disk: amnesiac label: fictitious flags: bytes/sector: 512 sectors/track: 63 tracks/cylinder: 16 sectors/cylinder: 1008 cylinders: 39693 sectors/unit: 40011300 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: 40011300 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 39693*) ---End Now I've also seen the vinum docs say that partition C is not usable, as it refers to the entire disk. Well, there aren't any others there. Here's the funny part. I've tried creating FreeBSD partitions on the disks (but never labeled them) using /stand/sysinstall. The above did not change at all. Even if I make no changes to the file, I get: disklabel: Operation not supported by device re-edit the label? [y]: Greg, help please! Thanks, Dan Mahoney -- "Don't try to out-wierd me. I get stranger things than you free with my breakfast cereal." -Button seen at I-CON XVII (and subsequently purchased) --------Dan Mahoney-------- Techie, Sysadmin, WebGeek Gushi on efnet/undernet IRC ICQ: 13735144 AIM: LarpGM Web: http://prime.gushi.org finger danm@prime.gushi.org for pgp public key and tel# --------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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