FreeBSD 5.3 and vinum upgrade #2

[Matthias Schuendehuette]

Am Montag, 20. Dezember 2004 00:04 schrieb Nikolaj Hansen:
> [...] The whole problem is, I cannot
> mount any thing without doing it this way. The reason for this is, as
> you pointed out , that my disk setup is different than the norm:
>
> $ sudo bsdlabel da1s1
> Password:
> # /dev/da1s1:
> 8 partitions:
> #        size   offset    fstype   [fsize bsize bps/cpg]
>   a:   512000        0    4.2BSD     2048 16384 32008
>   b:  1228535   512000      swap
>   c: 17767827        0    unused        0     0     # "raw" part...
>   h: 16027292  1740535     vinum
>
> Both sides of the mirror are made like this.

This disk setup seems to me perfectly legal. Your vinum-partition has an 
offset of 1740535 which is != 0, that's all that I meant.

> Of cause I _really_ want to keep the data on the disks. Is there an
> easy way to fix the disks for geom_vinum compability, or do they need
> to be rebuilt from the ground up?

I don't know any hints any more, sorry. I send a pointer to 
le at freebsd.org, which is the creator of geom_vinum, because he follows 
-current and not -stable AFAIK.

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Ciao/BSD - Matthias

Matthias Schuendehuette	<msch [at] snafu.de>, Berlin (Germany)
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