From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 9 14:34: 4 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00DFE37B718 for ; Fri, 9 Mar 2001 14:34:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id F03F16A90D; Sat, 10 Mar 2001 09:03:57 +1030 (CST) Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2001 09:03:57 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Wayne Pascoe Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Starting out with vinum - Going nowhere Message-ID: <20010310090357.S69598@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <3AA8B796.B12EB320@paradise.net.nz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from wayne.pascoe@realtime.co.uk on Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 12:20:18PM +0000 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Friday, 9 March 2001 at 12:20:18 +0000, Wayne Pascoe wrote: > Mark Ibell writes: > >> Try the following: >> >> # vi /etc/vinum.conf >> drive a device /dev/ad0s1e >> drive b device /dev/ad2s1f >> >> volume mirror setupstate >> plex org concat >> sd length 0 drive a >> plex org concat >> sd length 0 drive b >> # vinum >> vinum -> resetconfig >> vinum -> create -v /etc/vinum.conf >> vinum -> quit > > Great! This has fixed one problem for me :) THANKS! > > I have now created /dev/vinum/home, /dev/vinum/usr and /dev/vinum/var All on separate drives, I fear. > When I try to newfs them I get the following message: > > # newfs /dev/vinum/var > newfs: /dev/vinum/var: can't figure out file system partition > > If I do a newfs -v /dev/vinum/var I get the following > # newfs -v /dev/vinum/var > Warning: 266 sector(s) in last cylinder unallocated > /dev/vinum/var: 2096886 sectors in 512 cylinders of 1 tracks, 4096 sectors > 1023.9MB in 32 cyl groups (16 c/g, 32.00MB/g, 7936 i/g) > super-block backups (for fsck -b #) at: > > Is the warning about 266 sectoes in the last cylinder unallocated a > problem? No. It's normal. > Also, is it a problem that it works with a -v, but not without ? No, it's normal, and described in the man page. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message