Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 19:04:04 +0200 From: FreeBSD usergroup <freebsd@amadeus.demon.nl> To: Peter Clutton <peterclutton@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Help setting up Vinum mirror Message-ID: <334F213D-52A9-4157-B6B8-E961EF47DC31@amadeus.demon.nl> In-Reply-To: <57416b300509290428dc2bc97@mail.gmail.com> References: <57416b300509290428dc2bc97@mail.gmail.com>
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On 29 sep 2005, at 13:28, Peter Clutton wrote: > Hi, I have gone through the docs on this but am just missing a > couple of points > conceptually, and would be grateful for any help. > > Basically i have created two slices on two IDE drives and mounted them > (through fdisk, label etc), and had that all up and running correctly. > I then went into Vinum in interactive mode and (hopefully) created a > mirror by typing > mirror -d /dev/ad0s2d /dev/ad1s1d . It then gave me successful > messages and gave the drive a name and said it's "up". > > I'm just wondering after this point, can i just type quit and it's up > and running? I noticed on reboot the directories that were my mount > point for these partitions say they are "not a directory" now. Do i > need to go on and mount the mirror? Or did i make a mistake mounting > these partitions before creating the mirror. How do i utilize it after > issuing the mirror command. > Many thanks in advance. > Which FBSD release do you use? basically (FBSD < 5.3) for vinum you just have to type: vinum start after a reboot and it'll read the config from the disks and put the volume in /dev/vinum/ from there you can mount it manually or add a line to /etc/fstab Arno
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