vinum setup

[Lenny Shovsky]

nevermind. I figured this out.
still, Greg is one smart guy :).

I just wish disklabel was at least a bit
more user friendly. Every time I use it I have to
understand it all over :)

/boot/loader.conf

vinum_load="YES"
vinum.root="root"
vinum.drives="/dev/ad2 /dev/ad3"



synrat wrote:
> thanx Greg, you're right as always.
> I booted into single user from start up and sure enough everything was
> editable then.
> 
> I got another problem though.
> 
> I set up 2 disks for vinum and want to allocate exisiting partitions to
> vinum mirrored volumes. I left 16 blocks at the begining, moved first
> partition ( swap ) to 281, recalculated offsets in vinum config with -16, run vinum
> config, everything's peachy, drives rebuild, fsck sees no errors, I edit
> fstab, reboot, vinum module loads but root can not be mounted as a vinum
> device, I still have to manually specify my regular root (
> /dev/das1a ) partition. dmesg output below and vinum/disklabel too.
> 
> thanx a million. Greg for US president :)
> 
> Mounting root from ufs:/dev/vinum/root
> missing unit number
> setrootbyname failed
> ffs_mountroot: can't find rootvp
> Root mount failed: 6
> 
> 
> disklabel ( similar for both disks )
> ---------------------------------
> 
>   a: 21094400  2109440    4.2BSD     2048 16384    89   # (Cyl.  131*- 1444*)
>   b:  2109159      281      swap                        # (Cyl.    0*- 131*)
>   c: 156248127        0    unused        0     0        # (Cyl.    0 - 9725*)
>   e: 133044287 23203840    4.2BSD     2048 16384    89  # (Cyl. 1444*- 9725*)
>   h: 156248111       16     vinum                       # (Cyl.    0*- 9725*)
> 
> vinum
> ------------------
> 
> drive a device /dev/ad2s1h
> drive b device /dev/ad3s1h
> 
> volume root
> plex org concat
> sd length  21094400s driveoffset 2109424s drive a
> plex org concat
> sd length  21094400s driveoffset 2109424s drive
> 
> volume home
> plex org concat
> sd length 133044287s driveoffset 23203824s drive a
> plex org concat
> sd length 133044287s driveoffset 23203824s drive b
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, 18 Jun 2004, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
> 
> 
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>>Output wrapped.
>>
>>On Thursday, 17 June 2004 at 12:04:01 -0400, synrat wrote:
>>
>>>4.8
>>>
>>>I'm trying to setup partitions for vinum.
>>>I am in single user mode, but every time I try
>>>to modify swap size to accomodate for vinum confuration
>>>I get
>>>
>>>disklabel: ioctl DIOCWDINFO: open partition would move or shrink
>>>re-edit the label? [y]
>>>
>>>#        size   offset    fstype   [fsize bsize bps/cpg]
>>>  a: 21094400  2109440    4.2BSD     2048 16384    89   # (Cyl.  131*- 1444*)
>>>  b:  2109000      430      swap                        # (Cyl.    0 - 131*)
>>>  c: 156248127        0    unused        0     0        # (Cyl.    0 - 9725*)
>>>  e: 133044287 23203840    4.2BSD     2048 16384    89  # (Cyl. 1444*- 9725*)
>>>  h: 156248111       16     vinum                       # (Cyl.    0*- 9725*)
>>
>>You can't change open partitions.  You also can't unmount swap.  If
>>you go from multi-user to single user mode, the swap remains mounted.
>>You'll need to boot to single user mode to do that.
>>
>>If this doesn't answer your question, more details, please, including
>>any log messages.  Please don't wrap them.
>>
>>Greg
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