I poseted this via DejaNews a week ago and received no response, so I am sending directly to the mailing list in hopes of reaching more people. (Does it make a difference?) I kept it cryptic to save readers' time, but maybe too cryptic.

Basically I'm looking for start-up help with vinum, the disk mirroring software. I have read Lehey ch. 14 and the vinum man page, but still can't get it going. Obviously stuck on some trivial detail that has escaped me. If you can help I'd sure appreciate it.

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Stuck in vinum setup, Invalid argument error.

FreeBSD 4.1 as server Two SCSI hard drives, da0 and da1 Goal: - root, usr, small windows share on da0 - apache web content on da1 - mirrored volume for user mail storage

Output of df:

Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/da0s2a 49583 26940 18677 59% / /dev/da0s3e 4359077 1 4010350 0% /p0 /dev/da1s1e 4359077 1 4010350 0% /p1 /dev/da0s2f 1348443 123768 1116800 10% /usr /dev/da0s2e 19815 242 17988 1% /var /dev/da0s4e 2280928 1 2098453 0% /win /dev/da1s2e 4242621 1 3903211 0% /www procfs 4 4 0 100% /proc

Vinum configuration file (vinumcfg):

drive a device /dev/da0s3e drive b device /dev/da1s1e volume profiles plex org concat sd length 4g drive a plex org concat sd length 4g drive b

vinum -> create vinumcfg 1: drive a device /dev/da0s3e ** 1 : Invalid argument 2: drive b device /dev/da1s1e ** 2 : Invalid argument 0 drives: 1 volumes: V profiles State: down Plexes: 2 Size: 4096 MB

2 plexes: P profiles.p0 C State: faulty Subdisks: 1 Size: 4096 MB P profiles.p1 C State: faulty Subdisks: 1 Size: 4096 MB

2 subdisks: S profiles.p0.s0 State: crashed PO: 0 B Size: 4096 MB S profiles.p1.s0 State: crashed PO: 0 B Size: 4096 MB

Excerpted from man vinum:

device devicename

Specify the device on which the drive resides. devicename must be the name of a disk parti- tion, for example /dev/da1e or /dev/wd3s2h, and it must be of type vinum. Do not use the c par- tition, which is reserved for the complete disk.

My hunch is I am either using the wrong name form, or when I created the slice
I used the wrong type (freebsd).

Thanks in advance for your thoughts.

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