From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 26 21:52:56 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DF6F37B401 for ; Fri, 26 Jan 2001 21:52:38 -0800 (PST) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 32BD56A90D; Sat, 27 Jan 2001 16:22:36 +1030 (CST) Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 16:22:36 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Alexey Koptsevich Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vinum detach Message-ID: <20010127162236.N12091@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20010127155028.M12091@wantadilla.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from ak@astro.ioffe.rssi.ru on Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 08:35:46AM +0300 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 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 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Saturday, 27 January 2001 at 8:35:46 +0300, Alexey Koptsevich wrote: > > 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? There's a new program, growfs, which adjusts the size of the file system. It's available in -CURRENT only. >> 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. You can use RAID-5 for this. But you don't need detach to do it; it will happen automatically if one drive fails. 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