vinum disklabel FBSD 5.2.1....

[matt virus]

nobody ???





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
> 
> ******************************
> 
> Now, i know i have to change *something* to   "vinum"  but i'm unsure 
> which one, or if I need to actually add a line or ???
> 
> This is my first time playing with vinum, i've read a handful of howtos 
> and all the documentation I find shows the disklabel looking like this:
> 
> *****HOWTO's Disklabel********
> # disklabel da0
> [snip]
> #        size   offset    fstype   [fsize bsize bps/cpg]
>   a:  1024000  1024000    4.2BSD     2048 16384    90
>   b:  1024000        0      swap
>   c: 17912412        0    unused        0     0
>   e: 15864412  2048000     vinum
> ********************************
> 
> (source: http://org.netbase.org/vinum-mirrored.html)
> 
> Any direction is appreciated :-)
> 
> -matt
> 
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