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Date:      Sat, 10 Mar 2001 09:03:57 +1030
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Wayne Pascoe <wayne.pascoe@realtime.co.uk>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Starting out with vinum - Going nowhere
Message-ID:  <20010310090357.S69598@wantadilla.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <m14rx3w2v1.fsf@zaphod.realtime.co.uk>; from wayne.pascoe@realtime.co.uk on Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 12:20:18PM %2B0000
References:  <m1elw7w7h7.fsf@zaphod.realtime.co.uk> <3AA8B796.B12EB320@paradise.net.nz> <m14rx3w2v1.fsf@zaphod.realtime.co.uk>

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On Friday,  9 March 2001 at 12:20:18 +0000, Wayne Pascoe wrote:
> Mark Ibell <marki@paradise.net.nz> 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
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