From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 11 11:25:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from uberhacker.org (uberhacker.org [207.229.158.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B297637BCE9 for ; Sat, 11 Mar 2000 11:25:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from pds@uberhacker.org) Received: (qmail 59248 invoked by uid 1000); 11 Mar 2000 19:25:44 -0000 Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2000 13:25:44 -0600 From: "Paul D. Schmidt" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: vinum partition type question Message-ID: <20000311132544.G40345@uberhacker.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I had a concat vinum volume up and running for several months, then today I went and tried to create a raid10 volume, but I am getting the following error when trying to do a vinum create: vinum -> create vinum.conf 1: drive a device /dev/wd1s1 ** 1 Drive a has invalid partition type: Inappropriate file type or format 2: drive b device /dev/wd3s1 ** 2 Drive b has invalid partition type: Inappropriate file type or format According to the manual, mailing list postings, etc, you're supposed to have the partition type set to 'vinum', which I do: (or think I do) ------------------ /dev/wd1s1: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] c: 25414767 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 1581*) e: 25414767 0 vinum # (Cyl. 0 - 1581*) ------------------- /dev/wd3s1: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] c: 33750801 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 33482*) e: 33750801 0 vinum # (Cyl. 0 - 33482*) -------------------- I know the second drive is bigger than the first one, but I'm just using a volume that is big enough to fit on the first drive: drive a device /dev/wd1s1 drive b device /dev/wd3s1 volume raid10_1 plex org striped 256k sd length 6204m drive a sd length 6204m drive b plex org striped 256k sd length 6204m drive b sd length 6204m drive a Suggestions, flames, etc welcome. -Paul -- [Paul D. Schmidt....................][..................pds@enteract.com] [Data Systems Programmer............][................pds@uberhacker.org] [EnterAct, a 21st Century Company...][...........http://www.enteract.com] A closed mouth gathers no feet. --Anonymous To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message