How to grow partition size on RAID volume?
Hi all- I need some help figuring out how to expand the existing partition on my RAID volume to take advantage of a new disk I just added -- without newfs'ing the volume and starting from scratch. I added a 4th 750GB disk to my existing 1.5TB 3ware RAID5 volume, in an attempt to bring my total capacity up to ~2.25TB (4x750GB RAID5). I successfully used the 3ware 'tw-cli' utility to perform Online Capacity Expansion. The controller migrated the existing data across all 4 disks, and it now reports a total volume capacity of 2095.44GB. Now, I'm not quite sure how to get FreeBSD to recognize the extra space. I know that in order to use growfs, I first have to use disklabel to increase the partition size. However, disklabel doesn't like this big RAID volume: # disklabel /dev/da0 disklabel: disks with more than 2^32-1 sectors are not supported and the existing partition doesn't seem to have a label: # disklabel /dev/da0s1 disklabel: /dev/da0s1: no valid label found I'm unsure how to proceed here. CAn anyone shed some light as to how I might proceed? Thanks in advance for any and all help, Darren David ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: disklabel not returning values for large RAID
Darren David wrote: Hi all- I recently added a 4th 750GB disk to my existing 1.5TB 3ware RAID5 volume, in an attempt to bring my total capacity up to ~2.25TB (4x750GB RAID5). I successfully used the 3ware 'tw-cli' utility to perform Online Capacity Expansion. The controller migrated the existing data across all 4 disks, and it now reports a total volume capacity of 2095.44GB. Excellent. So, the issue I'm having is with getting FreeBSD 7.0-Release to recognize the additional space. I've seen scant few articles on the subject, the best of which is here: http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200111/growfs.html My primary issue right now is that when I attempt to run disklabel on the volume (/dev/da0) in order to get my calculations for fdisk, i get: # disklabel /dev/da0 disklabel: disks with more than 2^32-1 sectors are not supported and when I attempt it on the slice, i get: # disklabel /dev/da0s1 disklabel: /dev/da0s1: no valid label found What's the trick here? Thanks in advance, Darren David Update: OK, I discovered gpt. Here's the output: # gpt show /dev/da0 startsize index contents 0 1 MBR 1 62 63 2929629402 1 MBR part 165 2929629465 1464835815 Can anyone please give me some insight as to where to go from here? Cheers, Darren ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
disklabel not returning values for large RAID
Hi all- I recently added a 4th 750GB disk to my existing 1.5TB 3ware RAID5 volume, in an attempt to bring my total capacity up to ~2.25TB (4x750GB RAID5). I successfully used the 3ware 'tw-cli' utility to perform Online Capacity Expansion. The controller migrated the existing data across all 4 disks, and it now reports a total volume capacity of 2095.44GB. Excellent. So, the issue I'm having is with getting FreeBSD 7.0-Release to recognize the additional space. I've seen scant few articles on the subject, the best of which is here: http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200111/growfs.html My primary issue right now is that when I attempt to run disklabel on the volume (/dev/da0) in order to get my calculations for fdisk, i get: # disklabel /dev/da0 disklabel: disks with more than 2^32-1 sectors are not supported and when I attempt it on the slice, i get: # disklabel /dev/da0s1 disklabel: /dev/da0s1: no valid label found What's the trick here? Thanks in advance, Darren David ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Xorg/Gnome 2.16 stops responding to mouse clicks
hey all- I've got an issue where Xorg/Gnome 2.16 stops responding to mouse clicks - I can click, say, 3 or 4 times once Xorg first launches, but then it's hit and miss. Some interface elements are clickable, most are not. I have no problem moving the mouse around. Sometimes, intermittently, the ability to click will be restored. I was eager to blame my wireless logitech mouse, but if connectivity were an issue then I would also have issues moving the pointer around. I can't tell you when the problem started or for how long it's been going on, I haven't been running Xorg for many months now, so it's all new to me. PRior to this issue, my entire nautils desktop background vanished, and I reinstalled Gnome to fix it. Corruption somewhere? Driver issue? Any thoughts? Thanks in advance, Darren David ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FreeBSD 6.1 installer doesn't recognize ICH5R RAID1
hi all- doing a clean install to 6.1, and i've decided to set up my system drives as RAID 1 now that I see that 6.1 has support for the ICH5R raid controller. My BIOS recognizes the SATA RAID 1 array correctly, but the FreeBSD installer still sees 'ad4' and 'ad6' as two separate drives. The installer has no problem with my 3ware 9500-based RAID5 array. FWIW, ad4 and ad6 both have old installs of freebsd 5.4 on them, including bootloaders, not sure if that's causing some of the confusion here. any thoughts? thanks, darren david ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Need help switching between two FreeBSD boot drives
hi all- i've got one i've been tearing my hair out over here, and even after finding some information out there, i'm still totally lost. this may take a while to explain, so please bear with me. I've got 2 80GB SATA drives in my FreeBSD machine, which are mapped as /dev/ad4 and /dev/ad6. I've got 5_STABLE installed on 1 drive, and my plan is to get a working install of 6_STABLE on the other drive, so i can take my time to work out the kinks with the upgrade on the 2nd drive (it hasn't been straighforward) and be able to switch back to my working 5_STABLE machine as needed. That's the plan, anyway. So I followed the general instructions here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.html#NEW-HUGE-DISK to clone drive 1 over to drive 2. very cool, no problems, i can pick either drive in the bootloader and boot up there. so all is well and good until i boot into drive 2 and start the upgrade process. I realize the /dev/ad4 and /dev/ad6 are not exactly fixed. It seems almost arbitrary which drive ends up mapped as /dev/ad6 and /dev/ad4, and this caused me to nearly munge all of the data on the working 5_STABLE install before i caught myself. If i boot into drive 1 at boot time, everything ends up being mounted at /dev/ad6. If i mount into drive 2 at boot time, the same thing happens. Mind you, i /did/ check /etc/fstab to ensure that all was well, but i ended up with a weird situation where, say, / would be /dev/ad4s1a and all of the other mountpoints were at /dev/ad6*. ugh. confusing! I found this page, which explains the problem /somewhat/: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-steps.html but to be completely honest, the concept didn't stick. What i need help with, since these drives are exactly the same size and make, is how i can do the following: 1) determine the relationship between Drive 1/Drive 2 and ad4/ad6 2) determine exactly which physical drive i am working on at any given time, since the /dev node mappings seem to be malleable 3) enable an environment where i can safely and surely boot into either drive and know for a fact that the right partitions are mounted ( all of the data on all of the partitions aside from / is mirrored, so it's practically impossible to tell which drive is which ) 4) (bonus points) My bootloader shows the following on boot: F1: FreeBSD F2: FreeBSD F5: Drive 1 a) I've only got 1 FreeBSD install on this drive, so what is F2? It just beeps at me when i try it b) I assume that F5: Drive 1 means that the drive i'm staring at the options for is Drive 2, adn that selecting F5 will toggle to Drive 1? Just clarifying! i hope this is an easy one to solve. i look forward to any and all help! thanks in advance, darren david ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
fsck woes: no '-b' option?
hi all- i had a wonderful crash ( my fault, don't mess with hardware while the box is still running, no matter how steady your hands :| ). anyhoo, my 3ware RAID 5 volume is a bit unhappy now. when running fsck, i get the following: # fsck -y /dev/da0s1d ** /dev/da0s1d CANNOT READ BLK: 1464762144 CONTINUE? yes THE FOLLOWING DISK SECTORS COULD NOT BE READ: 1464762144, 1464762145, 1464762146, 1464762147, LOOK FOR ALTERNATE SUPERBLOCKS? yes 32 is not a file system superblock CANNOT READ BLK: 458687976 CONTINUE? yes THE FOLLOWING DISK SECTORS COULD NOT BE READ: 458687976, 458687977, 458687978, 458687979, 458687980, 458687981, 458687982, 458687983, 458687984, 458687985, 458687986, 458687987, 458687988, 458687989, 458687990, 458687991, CANNOT READ BLK: 917375920 CONTINUE? yes THE FOLLOWING DISK SECTORS COULD NOT BE READ: 917375920, 917375921, 917375922, 917375923, 917375924, 917375925, 917375926, 917375927, 917375928, 917375929, 917375930, 917375931, 917375932, 917375933, 917375934, 917375935, CANNOT READ BLK: 1376063864 CONTINUE? yes THE FOLLOWING DISK SECTORS COULD NOT BE READ: 1376063864, 1376063865, 1376063866, 1376063867, 1376063868, 1376063869, 1376063870, 1376063871, 1376063872, 1376063873, 1376063874, 1376063875, 1376063876, 1376063877, 1376063878, 1376063879, SEARCH FOR ALTERNATE SUPER-BLOCK FAILED. YOU MUST USE THE -b OPTION TO FSCK TO SPECIFY THE LOCATION OF AN ALTERNATE SUPER-BLOCK TO SUPPLY NEEDED INFORMATION; SEE fsck(8). this is all well and good, but according to 'man 8 fsck', there is no '-b' option. any thoughts on way around this? I'm running on 5.4-STABLE. thanks in advance, darren david ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: fsck woes: no '-b' option?
fair enough, that seemed to get it working again. so now the question is... how does one go about selecting which block to use as a new superblock? i realize this may be a trivial question regarding filesystems ( it's over my head) so i will happily take a link to a comprehensive resource as a response, unless it really is an easy answer... thanks again, darren david David Kirchner wrote: On 10/18/05, darren david [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SEARCH FOR ALTERNATE SUPER-BLOCK FAILED. YOU MUST USE THE -b OPTION TO FSCK TO SPECIFY THE LOCATION OF AN ALTERNATE SUPER-BLOCK TO SUPPLY NEEDED INFORMATION; SEE fsck(8). this is all well and good, but according to 'man 8 fsck', there is no '-b' option. any thoughts on way around this? I'm running on 5.4-STABLE. It looks like the fsck man page needs to be clarified, and the fsck output needs to be modified. What is actually telling you to use -b is fsck_ffs. !DSPAM:4355ecc0544949158843437! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
newfs options for .75TB RAID 5 unit
hey all- in the somewhat pending case that i may not be able to retrieve my data from RAID 5 unit, I'm wondering what my best option is for blocksize on a .75TB RAID 5 volume. does the 64k RAID stripe size have any impact on these figures? It was previously set to the default( 16384 blocksize, 2048 fragment ) without any noticeable perf issues, but i'm just wondering if, well, size matters? ;) thanks, darren david ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: newfs options for .75TB RAID 5 unit
darren david wrote: hey all- in the somewhat pending case that i may not be able to retrieve my data from RAID 5 unit, I'm wondering what my best option is for blocksize on a .75TB RAID 5 volume. does the 64k RAID stripe size have any impact on these figures? It was previously set to the default( 16384 blocksize, 2048 fragment ) without any noticeable perf issues, but i'm just wondering if, well, size matters? ;) thanks, darren david I should add that this .75 TB unit is in fact a 4x250GB drive array, for .75TB of total space. not that it makes a difference, but more info can't hurt. cheers, darren ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: newfs options for .75TB RAID 5 unit
Matt Virus wrote: darren david wrote: hey all- in the somewhat pending case that i may not be able to retrieve my data from RAID 5 unit, I'm wondering what my best option is for blocksize on a .75TB RAID 5 volume. does the 64k RAID stripe size have any impact on these figures? It was previously set to the default( 16384 blocksize, 2048 fragment ) without any noticeable perf issues, but i'm just wondering if, well, size matters? ;) thanks, darren david ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You shouldn't have any problems. Read about tunefs if you wish, it may help you. I have a 6x250gb array (1.25tb RAID5). FBSD 5.2.1 refused to support a filesystem larger than 1.0tb, so i chunked it into 2 partitions to get around that problem and then I mounted them back using mount_nullfs so it appears as though all dirs are on the same partition in a single directory. Not sure if the 1TB filesystem limit problem is unique to me or not, but you will be fine with your .75tb no question. Coolness. What was /your/ blocksize for your filesystem, and why did you choose it? darren ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Setting up Xorg in a jail
G. Felter wrote: On Wed, 25 May 2005 17:56:36 -0700, darren david wrote Hi all- So I've got designs on running Windows Server 2003 in VMWare 3 in a jail as a way to have a SQL Server machine to develop against without having to keep another machine running. I want to jail it for security reasons, but maybe that's just overkill... regardless, I'm trying to set up Xorg inside the jail so i can manage all the VMWare bits, but I can't for the life of me figure out how to configure Xorg inside the jail, since it's technically headless and i only have ssh access to it. Any thoughts? Thanks, as always, Darren David ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm not sure if we are on the same page but I have a couple of jails that I installed xorg and tightvnc. I then use the default twm (tabbed window manager) to bring up the applications I want to use by vnc'ing to the jail. I don't know if it is useful but it was fun to set up. Hope this helps. G ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] !DSPAM:42952a63631901062018743! Cool. I'm going to give that a shot. FWIW, did you have to do anything with your Xorg.conf file? Obviously, running Xorg -configure in the jail fails since there's no display. thanks, darren ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Setting up Xorg in a jail
Hi all- So I've got designs on running Windows Server 2003 in VMWare 3 in a jail as a way to have a SQL Server machine to develop against without having to keep another machine running. I want to jail it for security reasons, but maybe that's just overkill... regardless, I'm trying to set up Xorg inside the jail so i can manage all the VMWare bits, but I can't for the life of me figure out how to configure Xorg inside the jail, since it's technically headless and i only have ssh access to it. Any thoughts? Thanks, as always, Darren David ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Server-based address book with LDAP
Hi all- So having sold my Mac (boo!) and being stuck with FreeBSD (yay!), I'm looking for a server-based address book replacement. LDAP seems like the way to go, but i have yet to find a good HOWTO and/or GUI based application for administering said contact repository. I'd ultimately like to be able to wire up a lightweight web-based solution for browsing addresses remotely, but first i need to get LDAP off the ground. If i ever get a Mac again, i'd likely use the new Auto LDAP-sync features in Tiger's Address Book, but for now, can anyone point me in the right direction? thanks in advance, darren david ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
gnome_upgrade hangs on accessibility/gnomespeech
arguments... (cached) 65536 checking command to parse /usr/bin/nm -B output from cc object... ok checking for objdir... .libs checking for ar... ar checking for ranlib... ranlib checking for strip... strip checking if cc static flag works... yes checking if cc supports -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions... no checking for cc option to produce PIC... -fPIC checking if cc PIC flag -fPIC works... yes checking if cc supports -c -o file.o... yes checking whether the cc linker (/usr/bin/ld) supports shared libraries... yes checking whether -lc should be explicitly linked in... yes checking dynamic linker characteristics... freebsd5.3 ld.so checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate checking whether stripping libraries is possible... yes checking if libtool supports shared libraries... yes checking whether to build shared libraries... yes checking whether to build static libraries... yes configure: creating libtool appending configuration tag CXX to libtool checking for ld used by c++... /usr/bin/ld checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes checking whether the c++ linker (/usr/bin/ld) supports shared libraries... yes checking for c++ option to produce PIC... -fPIC checking if c++ PIC flag -fPIC works... yes checking if c++ supports -c -o file.o... yes checking whether the c++ linker (/usr/bin/ld) supports shared libraries... yes checking dynamic linker characteristics... freebsd5.3 ld.so checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate checking whether stripping libraries is possible... yes appending configuration tag F77 to libtool checking if libtool supports shared libraries... yes checking whether to build shared libraries... yes checking whether to build static libraries... yes checking for f77 option to produce PIC... -fPIC checking if f77 PIC flag -fPIC works... yes checking if f77 supports -c -o file.o... yes checking whether the f77 linker (/usr/bin/ld) supports shared libraries... yes checking dynamic linker characteristics... freebsd5.3 ld.so checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate checking whether stripping libraries is possible... yes checking for pkg-config... /usr/local/bin/pkg-config checking for bonobo-activation-2.0 = 0.9.1 libbonobo-2.0 = 1.97.0 ORBit-2.0 = 2.3.94... yes checking gnome_speech_CFLAGS... -DORBIT2=1 -D_REENTRANT -I/usr/local/include/bonobo-activation-2.0 -I/usr/local/include/ glib-2.0 -I/usr/local/lib/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/local/include/orbit-2.0 -I/usr/local/include/libbonobo-2.0 checking gnome_speech_LIBS... -Wl,--export-dynamic -pthread -L/usr/local/lib -lbonobo-2 -lbonobo-activation -lORBit-2 -l m -lgmodule-2.0 -lgthread-2.0 -lglib-2.0 -liconv checking for eciNew in -libmeci... no checking for TextToSpeechSync in -ltts... no test: x: unexpected operator checking for /bin/theta-config... no checking for /usr/local/bin/java... yes checking for /usr/local/bin/javac... yes cheers, darren david ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
easy VPN config HOWTO?
Hi all- I have been searching high and low for a straightforward VPN configuration HOWTO with no luck. everything i've found is way over my head and very convoluted (to me, at least). Perhaps such is the nature of VPN. My goal is simply to allow users running Windows to VPN in to my home server and gain access to the private LAN. Sure, i can get in via ssh, but i have several less technical users who need to access to shared resources and for them, ssh is not a realistic solution. I've heard that OpenVPN is a bit simpler to set up, but it too is a complicated matter. All of the examples i've seen/googled involve unix-unix machines. I'm tracking 5.3-STABLE with pf controlling traffic. Can anyone point me in a good direction? Thanks in advance, darren david ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
