From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 11 17:02:40 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2743E16A4CE for ; Wed, 11 Feb 2004 17:02:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from ozlabs.org (ozlabs.org [203.10.76.45]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C931543D1D for ; Wed, 11 Feb 2004 17:02:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from blackwater.lemis.com (blackwater.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFC412BD49 for ; Thu, 12 Feb 2004 12:02:37 +1100 (EST) Received: by blackwater.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id B84CD5120A; Thu, 12 Feb 2004 11:32:35 +1030 (CST) Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 11:32:35 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Stijn Hoop Message-ID: <20040212010235.GV8342@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20040204185203.GA14302@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="+W7ryvxEk4RRyt+P" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040204185203.GA14302@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 cc: dontspamhenk@xs4all.nl cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fixing vinum after removing a HDD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 01:02:40 -0000 --+W7ryvxEk4RRyt+P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wednesday, 4 February 2004 at 19:52:03 +0100, Stijn Hoop wrote: > On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 07:41:48PM +0100, dontspamhenk@xs4all.nl wrote: >> I'm running FreeBSD 4.8 on a system with 5 HDD's. ad0 is to be removed >> from the system. ad1, ad2 and ad3 contain my vinum drives. FreeBSD resid= es >> on the last disk (da0). >> >> Can anyone tell me if the following procedure is the right way to do it? >> 1. physically remove ad0 >> 2. vinum resetconfig >> 3. change drivenumbers in vinum.conf >> 4. run vinum with the new configfile > > As far as my (limited) vinum knowledge goes, you really don't need to do a > resetconfig. Correct. From the man page: resetconfig The resetconfig command completely obliterates the vinum confi= gu- ration on a system. Use this command only when you want to co= m- pletely delete the configuration.=20 I'm completely baffled that people want to use this command so much. The correct sequence is to remove the drive, replace it with something else with a Vinum partition, and then start the defective objects. It depends on the volume structures as to whether the data can still be recovered. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --+W7ryvxEk4RRyt+P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAKtCrIubykFB6QiMRAv82AJkBQ59h1xEex3/7TUsgXm6SQpq9YwCfdUAI aGX5Ds4J5A7opYQSivLzg2g= =alaM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --+W7ryvxEk4RRyt+P--