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From: Bob Collins <bobc@anything-inc.com>
To: Marc Smits <msmits@dds.nl>
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Subject: Re: Vinum error "Can't initialize drive a: Invalid argument"
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On Fri, Dec 19, 2003, Bob Collins wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 19, 2003, Marc Smits wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I am running FreeBSD-4.7-realease and want to create a striped plex from 
> > 2 new 80Gb disks.
> > 
> > Here's my vinum-description:
> >  drive a device /dev/ad2s1e
[snippage]
> > 76GB
> > 
> > I used sysinstall to fdisk and label the partitions. 
> > 
> > What do need to do diffrent to get vinum to use the partitions?
> 
> Did you disklabel the slices to be of type vinum? I had a similar
> trouble due to the fact I had labeled the disks as BSD4.0 or some such.
> Once you have the disks labeled, you have to disklabel -d ad2 I think
                                                       ^^^^^^^
That should be disklabel -e ad2


Bob

typing too fast...