vinum disklabel FBSD 5.2.1....
Greg 'groggy' Lehey
grog at FreeBSD.org
Sat Nov 6 15:19:10 PST 2004
On Sunday, 31 October 2004 at 14:03:18 +0100, FreeBSD questions mailing list wrote:
>
> On 31 okt 2004, at 07:41, matt virus wrote:
>
>> matt virus wrote:
>>> Hi all!
>>> I have (8) maxtor 160gb drives I plan on constructing a vinum raid5
>>> array with.
>>> the devices are:
>>> ad4....ad11
>>> All drives have been fdisk'd and such,
>>> ad4s1d.....ad11s1d
>>> The first step of setting up vinum is changing the disklabel
>>> disklabel -e /dev/ad4
>>> The disk label says it has 8 partitions, but only the A and C
>>> partitions are shown...
>>> **********MY DISKLABEL********
>>> # /dev/ad4:
>>> 8 partitions:
>>> # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg]
>>> a: 320173040 16 unused 0 0
>>> c: 320173056 0 unused 0 0 # "raw" part, don't edit
>>> ******************************
>
> c: is not a valid disk label. You need to create one first. See the
> example below first: there's an "e" label. You can do this in
> sysinstall: Configure / Label / ad4 and then C to create one. Once
> that's done it'll show up in disklabel as you write below. Then in
> disklabel you can change the 4.2BSD to vinum.
You should also not use 'c' for Vinum.
Greg
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