vinum disklabel FBSD 5.2.1....

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On 07 nov 2004, at 00:19, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:

> 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
> --

Bit of confusion from my side: I meant C as the key that should be 
pressed to create a new slice not as a name for a disklabel
Arno