On Sunday, 7 September 2003 at 11:31:41 +0200, Simon Strandgaard wrote: > one question; Why does vinum not start at system startup ? > > At the bottom of my rc.conf file, I have added: > start_vinum="YES" > > When I reboot the system, all I see in dmesg is: > vinum: no drives found > > > I can start it manualy: > > server# vinum create config1 > 2 drives: > D a State: up /dev/ad1s1c A: 39166/39266 MB (99%) > D b State: up /dev/ad2s1c A: 229/329 MB (69%)
This is a bug in Vinum. It shouldn't let you start it manually. >From the man page: DRIVE LAYOUT CONSIDERATIONS vinum drives are currently BSD disk partitions. They must be of type vinum in order to avoid overwriting data used for other purposes. Use disklabel -e to edit a partition type definition. The following display shows a typical partition layout as shown by disklabel(8): 8 partitions: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a: 81920 344064 4.2BSD 0 0 0 # (Cyl. 240*- 297*) b: 262144 81920 swap # (Cyl. 57*- 240*) c: 4226725 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 2955*) e: 81920 0 4.2BSD 0 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 57*) f: 1900000 425984 4.2BSD 0 0 0 # (Cyl. 297*- 1626*) g: 1900741 2325984 vinum 0 0 0 # (Cyl. 1626*- 2955*) In this example, partition ``g'' may be used as a vinum partition. Par- titions ``a'', ``e'' and ``f'' may be used as UFS file systems or ccd partitions. Partition ``b'' is a swap partition, and partition ``c'' represents the whole disk and should not be used for any other purpose. The vinum utility uses the first 265 sectors on each partition for con- figuration information, so the maximum size of a subdisk is 265 sectors smaller than the drive. Choose a different partition, and reset partition c to "unused". Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"