On Monday, 6 December 2004 at 0:28:01 +0100, Markus Hoenicka wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm trying to set up vinum on a freshly installed FreeBSD 5.3-BETA7 > box. The system is installed on da0. I want to use three 18G SCSI > drives to create a vinum volume. > > For some reason vinum believes the disks hold a mere 255MB. This is > what vinum sets the subdisk length if I specify "0m" as the length > (meaning "use all available space" according to the manual). If I > specify any larger size manually, vinum complains that there is "No > space left on device" which strikes me odd. I *believe* that the fdisk > and bsdlabel outputs reprinted below show that the disks are indeed > 18G. According to my math, the appropriate size to specify in the > vinum configuration would be 35566215s, that is the number of sectors > of the smaller disks minus 265. > > I see only one minor problem: The disks are not identical, with > da1 having a slightly larger capacity than da2 and da3. > > Can anyone throw me a ring here?
You don't say whether you're using vinum or gvinum. I've never seen this problem before, but if you're getting incorrect subdisk sizes, try specifying them explicitly: sd length 35840952s drive ibma I wonder whether the problem is related to specifying the size as 0m instead of 0. It shouldn't be. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers.
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