Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 15:10:32 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Hari Bhaskaran <subscr@spider.netmails.net> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bootvinum and multiple pc-partitions Message-ID: <20021220044032.GD90976@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20021219223457.A89899@spider.netmails.net> References: <20021219213350.A89777@spider.netmails.net> <20021220035634.GC90976@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20021219223457.A89899@spider.netmails.net>
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On Thursday, 19 December 2002 at 22:34:57 -0600, Hari Bhaskaran wrote: > On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 02:26:34PM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > >> I must confess to being a bit baffled. You seem to be confused on a >> number of points. Certainly there's never any reason to put more than >> one Vinum volume on a physical disk. > > Are you asking where the second hard-drive is attached to the same > cable? No. > Yes, one is the master, other is slave. I guess this could be > problem if the master is dead. But they are still two separate > harddisks. /dev/ad1s1 and /dev/ad1s2 are both the same disk. > I was following the article > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/vinum/index.html > > After a search, I found some other articles > http://org.netbase.org/vinum-mirrored.html. May be I will try to > follow this one. > > Here is a summary of what I was trying to do:- > > I began a normal FreeBSD install with a single 120G disk. I needed the > following partitions > > / 1G > swap 6G (may be a bit too much!) > /var 3G > /var/log 1G > /var/tmp 1G > /tmp 3G > /usr 3G > /usr/home 3G > /fs1 2G > /fs2 20G > /fs3 40G > /fs4 31G > > Since I don't seem to be able to create more than 7 or so FreeBSD > fs partitions per PC-partition, I split the PC-partition into two. > That's why I have ad0s1 & ad0s2. You don't need more than one partition. > Now I need the whole disk mirrored on the second 120G disk. I may > not want to mirror /fs4, that's all. > >> create.ThruBank >> create.YouCrazy > > There are default files (I didn't care to change the default names) > generated by bootvinum. > >> You shouldn't be specifying explicit drive offsets. It's also not a >> good idea to specify names for pleses or subdisks. In addition, >> you've detected a bug in the Vinum parser: you can't have / characters >> in object names. > [snip] >> >> You're creating a lot of unattached plexes here. Why? > > I just ran the script. So please ignore these. > >> I don't know why you're going to so much trouble when it's *much* >> easier to do it manually. I can't help you with bootvinum, beyond >> to suggest not to use it. I can only repeat that. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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