From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 11 11:09:40 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 492E416A4CF for ; Tue, 11 Nov 2003 11:09:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from out008.verizon.net (out008pub.verizon.net [206.46.170.108]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2279043FBF for ; Tue, 11 Nov 2003 11:09:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@pcmedx.com) Received: from duron.pcmedx.com ([4.46.22.189]) by out008.verizon.net (InterMail vM.5.01.05.33 201-253-122-126-133-20030313) with ESMTP id <20031111190932.NQPT3808.out008.verizon.net@duron.pcmedx.com>; Tue, 11 Nov 2003 13:09:32 -0600 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by duron.pcmedx.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C371DA9F4; Tue, 11 Nov 2003 11:09:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from mike (mike.pcmedx.com [192.168.240.244]) by duron.pcmedx.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 0E77BA99C; Tue, 11 Nov 2003 11:09:31 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <006801c3a887$5c2473d0$f4f0a8c0@pcmedx.com> From: "Mike Maltese" To: References: <3189.192.168.1.104.1068570867.squirrel@sauron> Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 11:09:41 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd (http://www.amavis.org) and f-prot (http://www.f-prot.com) at pcmedx.com X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at out008.verizon.net from [4.46.22.189] at Tue, 11 Nov 2003 13:09:32 -0600 cc: Chris Howells Subject: Re: Vinum and reserved space X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 19:09:40 -0000 > I've just bought 2 x 160GB drives which I want to RAID 1 with vinum. I > used /stand/sysinstall to fdisk and disklabel them, mounted them as /temp1 > and /temp2 and checked the size of them using 'df' to stick into my > vinum.conf file. > > I'm a bit confused though; the output of df does not include the 8% or > whatever of the slice that is reserved for root by default. Therefore I > was wondering if I should turn the reserved space down to 0%, check the > space using df, and use that in my vinum.conf. The reasoning is that when > I run 'newfs /dev/vinum/sauron1', more drive space will be reserved, so > I'll have two lots of reserved space on each drive which seems wrong. > > Currently df -h output looks like this, which isn't too impressive for > 160GB drives: > > /dev/vinum/sauron1 131G 1.0K 120G 0% /vinum > > vinum.conf looks like: > > drive alpha device /dev/ad6s1e > drive beta device /dev/ad7s1e > volume sauron1 setupstate > plex org concat > sd length 141537128k drive alpha > plex org concat > sd length 141537128k drive beta man tunefs