From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 6 8: 7:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.telestream.com (mail.telestream.com [205.238.4.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACFFA37B66C for ; Fri, 6 Oct 2000 08:07:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (keith@localhost) by mail.telestream.com (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id e96F7Gx16839 for ; Fri, 6 Oct 2000 08:07:16 -0700 Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2000 08:07:16 -0700 (PDT) From: To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: vinum HOWTO 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 Is there a vinum HOWTO somewhere? I've read through it all in "The Complete FreeBSD 3rd edition" but it all seems so non-intuitive to my way of thinking and I'm puzzled to no end now. I'm sure I am missing a step someplace. All I've done so far is install two new 4.5Gig scsi drives. Gone into sysinstall and ran the disk label and slice editor on each of the drives then ran vinum. Here is what I enter into vinum vinum -> create #Then I enter this into the vi session. drive a device /dev/da0s1e drive b device /dev/da1s1e volume stripe plex org striped 512k sd length 4300m drive a sd length 4300m drive b When I write quite the vi session this is what vinum says. 3: drive a device /dev/da0s1e ** 3 : Invalid argument 4: drive b device /dev/da1s1e ** 4 : Invalid argument 0 drives: 1 volumes: V stripe State: down Plexes: 1 Size: 8600 MB 1 plexes: P stripe.p0 S State: faulty Subdisks: 2 Size: 8600 MB 2 subdisks: S stripe.p0.s0 State: crashed PO: 0 B Size: 4300 MB S stripe.p0.s1 State: crashed PO: 512 kB Size: 4300 MB vinum -> ================================= Keith W. At the helm My non work related site www.cydonia.net ================================= To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message