From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 26 21:36:11 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from relay.ioffe.rssi.ru (relay.ioffe.rssi.ru [194.85.224.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A628F37B401 for ; Fri, 26 Jan 2001 21:35:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from astro.ioffe.rssi.ru (astro.ioffe.rssi.ru [194.85.229.130]) by relay.ioffe.rssi.ru (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id IAA12270; Sat, 27 Jan 2001 08:35:47 +0300 (MSK) Received: by astro.ioffe.rssi.ru (8.9.3/Clnt-2.14-AS-eef) id IAA86176; Sat, 27 Jan 2001 08:35:46 +0300 (MSK) Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 08:35:46 +0300 (MSK) From: Alexey Koptsevich To: Greg Lehey Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vinum detach In-Reply-To: <20010127155028.M12091@wantadilla.lemis.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Greg, > Presumably you're using the volume for a file system. The newfs > program write the file system structure to the entire volume (or disk > partition), so even if the file system had no data at all in it, you > would damage it irreparably by removing a subdisk. But how is it possible to add new subdisks if file system structure is created for the entire volume? > Why do you want to do this? I do not have resources to create several plexes but would like to be able to replace one of subdisks by other (of other size) if it fails by some reason. It is a pity I was mistaken. Thanks, Alex To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message