Re: Help with Vinum disk crash...

2004-02-24 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Tuesday, 24 February 2004 at 8:56:58 +0100, Danny Carroll wrote: No, that's not correct. It does happen if you choose too small a stripe size, but that's the best reason for choosing larger stripes. That's described in much detail in the man page. How can it not be correct? When you

Re: Help on kernel debugger

2004-02-24 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Tuesday, 24 February 2004 at 11:23:40 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need to use a kernel debugger on FreeBSD 4.8 to check if my messages to the kernel have all the info required and if Is being processed. I don't really understand what you mean here. DDB is the debugger mentioned in

Re: Help with Vinum disk crash...

2004-02-23 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Monday, 23 February 2004 at 12:44:19 +0100, Danny Carroll wrote: Greg, Thanks for all the responses. Unfortunatly I ran out of time and resorted to a restore of week old data. No big loss for me, but I really wanted to debug this to better understand what happened. I think it went

Re: Help with Vinum disk crash...

2004-02-23 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Tuesday, 24 February 2004 at 8:30:15 +0100, Danny Carroll wrote: vinum and ide on my system results is very poor disk performance, I see a 10-fold increase in read/write actions. I'll be interested in revisiting vinum with some SCSI disks sometime soon. How did you test it? I have 4

Re: Growfs Vinum on 5.2-RELEASE

2004-02-22 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Sunday, 8 February 2004 at 21:43:19 +1030, Michael Ritchie wrote: I have followed the method advocated by Drew Tomlinson on this list (October 2002) to create a Vinum volume without losing data. Everything worked ok for the first drive... and then I added the second, and grew the file

Re: Growfs Vinum on 5.2-RELEASE

2004-02-22 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Monday, 23 February 2004 at 13:51:52 +1030, Michael Ritchie wrote: Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: What file system? UFS 1 or UFS 2? growfs is suffering a bit from lack of love at the moment. It might be worth putting in a PR. Thanks for the response, File system UFS2 (with softupdates

Re: Fixing vinum after removing a HDD

2004-02-22 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Wednesday, 11 February 2004 at 19:30:52 -0800, Micheas Herman wrote: On Wed, 2004-02-11 at 17:02, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Wednesday, 4 February 2004 at 19:52:03 +0100, Stijn Hoop wrote: On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 07:41:48PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm running FreeBSD 4.8

Re: Help with Vinum disk crash...

2004-02-22 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Wednesday, 18 February 2004 at 9:34:29 +0100, Danny Carroll wrote: Quoting Greg 'groggy' Lehey [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I answered an almost identical question yesterday: it depends on the volume structure, which you haven't stated. Look at http://www.vinumvm.org/vinum/how-to-debug.html

Re: Help with Vinum disk crash...

2004-02-22 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Thursday, 19 February 2004 at 1:04:29 +1100, Tony Frank wrote: Hi, On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 01:15:18PM +0100, Danny Carroll wrote: Quoting Tony Frank [EMAIL PROTECTED]: So you have a subdisk down which means Vinum can still read from the plex but has to manually calculate the missing

Re: Help with Vinum disk crash...

2004-02-22 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Thursday, 19 February 2004 at 9:46:35 +0100, Danny Carroll wrote: Tony et al,.. Thanks for the information... I really need the space now so I am going to wipe it and start from scratch, although I am not sure if I will use vinum again. I guess my main concern is that when one of my

Re: Help with Vinum disk crash...

2004-02-22 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Friday, 20 February 2004 at 9:22:21 +1100, Tony Frank wrote: Hi, On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 09:46:35AM +0100, Danny Carroll wrote: Thanks for the information... I really need the space now so I am going to wipe it and start from scratch, although I am not sure if I will use vinum again. I

Re: RAID (ccd/vinum) with 2 harddisks

2004-02-22 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Monday, 23 February 2004 at 8:27:33 +0100, Axel S. Gruner wrote: Hi. I want to use RAID on a IBM xSeries 345 with two harddisks. So the problem is, i can not setup a RAID System via Installation of FreeBSD (it will be 4.9 or maybe 5.2) and i do not have a System harddisk so that i can

Re: OT: Longest uptime

2004-02-21 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Saturday, 21 February 2004 at 15:24:47 -0500, S wrote: I'm curious as to what the longest uptimes are people have seen on production servers. http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/today/top.avg.html I've known people with server uptimes of over 1000 days. It's rather pointless to go

Re: vinum raid5 initializing died overnight

2004-02-21 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Wednesday, 18 February 2004 at 11:52:09 +0100, Bjorn Eikeland wrote: Yesterday I set up a vinum raid5 array on a fairly slow pc (p3-500, 128mb pc100, udma66) and started the initializing, but only to find vinum l showing the drives as 'State: I 38%' and the vinum processes were gone this

Re: Help with Vinum disk crash...

2004-02-17 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Log output wrapped. On Tuesday, 17 February 2004 at 14:27:51 +0100, Danny Carroll wrote: Hello, About 6 weeks ago one of the disks in my Vinum array crashed. However, the major problem is now that the file system is

Re: vinum raid5 subdisks keep changing length?

2004-02-16 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Monday, 16 February 2004 at 22:04:44 +1100, Tony Frank wrote: Hi all, Running vinum on RELENG_4. No changes to source, vinum loaded as a KLD as per instructions in handbook man pages. As per the subject I am having what appears to be strange behaviour with vinum. After a number of

Re: vinum raid5 subdisks keep changing length?

2004-02-16 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Tuesday, 17 February 2004 at 11:39:26 +1100, Tony Frank wrote: On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 09:51:30AM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Monday, 16 February 2004 at 22:04:44 +1100, Tony Frank wrote: The original config looked as so: volume data plex name data.p0 org raid5 984s vol data sd

Re: slice editor in sysinstall

2004-02-15 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Sunday, 15 February 2004 at 23:25:19 -0500, Aaron Peterson wrote: after the install, can i run a curses based slice/partition editor like those used in sysinstall without actually running sysinstall? No. But you can run sysinstall for only this function. There's a special 'w' command to

Re: Vinum or HD error?

2004-02-12 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Sunday, 1 February 2004 at 12:42:31 -0600, Hari Bhaskaran wrote: Hi, here is a transcript of vinum reporting an HD failure. I just want to confirm this is really a HD error before the throw the HD out the window vinum volume fs5 is really not mirrored (~ 29G of only 1 120g disk mapped

Re: Stack Backtraces -- disk related?

2004-02-12 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Thursday, 5 February 2004 at 15:40:06 -0800, David Benfell wrote: Hello all, I've been getting these messages on my console and in my kernel log. I'm noticing stuff in there that looks like it has to do with the filesystem. Both the disks on this system are IDE disks, so yes, this kind

Re: Fixing vinum after removing a HDD

2004-02-11 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Wednesday, 4 February 2004 at 19:52:03 +0100, Stijn Hoop wrote: On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 07:41:48PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm running FreeBSD 4.8 on a system with 5 HDD's. ad0 is to be removed from the system. ad1, ad2 and ad3 contain my vinum drives. FreeBSD resides on the last

Re: documentation on FreeBSD kernel

2004-02-11 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Long/short syndrome On Friday, 6 February 2004 at 10:13:46 +0100, Uwe Doering wrote: LACOSTE Thierry wrote: Are there books equivalent to e.g. Understanding the Linux kernel concerning FreeBSD ? More precisely, books (or

Re: Grave vinum problem (at least for me)

2004-02-10 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Thursday, 5 February 2004 at 6:48:18 +0100, Ole Voss wrote: Last night I reinstalled freebsd and obviously somewhere along the way my 400GB concat vinum volume wasn't unmounted (at least that's what freebsd told me). Now, when I run 'fsck -t ufs /dev/vinum/abyss' I get this: titan#

Re: 5.2 and Dell Inspiron 5100

2004-01-29 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Thursday, 29 January 2004 at 17:01:44 -0500, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: On Thu, 2004-01-29 at 16:53, Jonathan T. Sage wrote: Hello - recently purchased a dell inspiron 5100. Out of the box, 5.2 installed wonderfully. More than wonderfully. The only issue I ran into was with X. I am unable

Re: The Complete FreeBSD

2004-01-21 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Wednesday, 21 January 2004 at 18:28:40 -0600, Jamie wrote: I am looking into a personal copy of The Complete FreeBSD, but I'd like to get an edition which focuses on the 4.x series. From what I've read, the fourth edition focuses primarily on 5.x. Is there a version of The Complete

Re: Web Editing?

2004-01-20 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Wednesday, 21 January 2004 at 2:39:58 +0800, Dinesh Nair wrote: On Tue, 20 Jan 2004, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: That's your call. A number of us have good reasons, and that's why many of us use bollox. i'm presuming this is an editor of sorts ? :) It appears to be a combination of vi

Re: Web Editing?

2004-01-19 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Monday, 19 January 2004 at 8:25:28 -0600, Eric F Crist wrote: Content-Description: signed data What do people here use to edit HTML documents? I usually use Dreamweaver, but I haven't gotten the time to try to get wine working so I can run Dreamweaver on FreeBSD. Is Dreamweaver output

Re: Web Editing?

2004-01-19 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Tuesday, 20 January 2004 at 10:35:14 +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 2004-01-19T22:59:05Z, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I think Macromedia have soughted that all out by now in MX. Frankly i havent found an editor for Unix that is as good as either Quanta or Zend Studio or even Eclipse.

Re: 3-4MB/s vinum performance with two Promise PDC20268 UDMA100 controllers

2004-01-15 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Thursday, 15 January 2004 at 10:44:20 +0100, Bjorn Eikeland wrote: Hi I had four 160G IDE drives in raid5 on a single controller and it worked just fine, never benchmarked it since it was faster than the network anyway. But when adding a second controller card and two more drives the new

Re: How to get best results from FreeBSD-questions

2004-01-10 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Saturday, 10 January 2004 at 12:01:26 +, Matthew Seaman wrote: On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 03:48:12AM -0800, Loren M. Lang wrote: On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 05:02:01PM -0800, Greg Lehey wrote: 6. Unless there's a good reason to do otherwise, reply to the sender and to FreeBSD-questions.

Re: growfs problem [was Re: Adding a drive in vinum]

2004-01-06 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Tuesday, 6 January 2004 at 19:18:06 +0100, Mathieu Arnold wrote: Ok, I could not wait, so I did : a create with : drive vinumdrive1 device /dev/ad3e sd name data.p0.s1 drive vinumdrive1 len 0 then : attach data.p0.s1 data.p0 That worked well, I had a 115GB volume, I now have a 301GB

Re: FreeBSD 5.2 and RAID

2004-01-05 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Sunday, 4 January 2004 at 23:45:05 -0700, Shawn Dillon wrote: I will be upgrading our FreeBSD 5.0 box to 5.2 right away. I would like to install 2 200GB WD IDE drives in a mirror. Basic research has shown me that Vinum should do the trick... Any advice before I take the plunge? RTFM?

Re: converting manpages to postscript

2004-01-05 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Monday, 5 January 2004 at 10:22:36 -0600, Andrew L. Gould wrote: On Monday 05 January 2004 10:17 am, Dru wrote: I'm trying to convert a manpage to postscript and have tried these 3 variants: groff -Tps -mandoc /usr/share/man/man1/ls.1.gz ls.ps groff -Tps -mdoc

Re: something wrong withshutdown

2004-01-01 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Friday, 2 January 2004 at 4:25:49 +0800, dc wrote: Versino 4.9whenever i use the command shutdownor haltto shutdown the power,system displaytype anykey to rebootso computer reboot~and i have to boot windows(i installed FREEBSD and WINDOWS2000). Why? Someone told me to

Re: Booting from vinum RAID 1: How should I edit my disk label?

2003-12-30 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Sunday, 28 December 2003 at 23:10:20 -0800, Micheas Herman wrote: On Sun, 2003-12-28 at 22:21, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Sunday, 28 December 2003 at 20:27:37 -0800, Micheas Herman wrote: Hi, I am following 13.9.2 Making a Vinum-based Root Volume Accessible to the Bootstrap from

Re: Booting from vinum RAID 1: How should I edit my disk label?

2003-12-30 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Tuesday, 30 December 2003 at 21:51:35 -0800, Micheas Herman wrote: On 31 Dec 03, 4:04PM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Sunday, 28 December 2003 at 23:10:20 -0800, Micheas Herman wrote: On Sun, 2003-12-28 at 22:21, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Sunday, 28 December 2003 at 20:27:37 -0800

Re: vinum swap no longer working.

2003-12-28 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Sunday, 28 December 2003 at 20:00:04 -0800, Micheas Herman wrote: This may belong on current, I upgraded to 5.2 from 5.1 and my kernel (GENERIC) now refuses to use /dev/vinum/swap as my swap device. # swapon /dev/vinum/swap swapon: /dev/vinum/swap: Operation not supported by device #

Re: Booting from vinum RAID 1: How should I edit my disk label?

2003-12-28 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Sunday, 28 December 2003 at 20:27:37 -0800, Micheas Herman wrote: Hi, I am following 13.9.2 Making a Vinum-based Root Volume Accessible to the Bootstrap from the FreeBSD Handbook. (/dev/vinum/root is mounted at /newroot ) ... Subdisk root.p1.s0: Size:146664960

Re: escape to kernel debugger

2003-12-26 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Your MUA is not handling quoted-printable correctly. On Friday, 26 December 2003 at 9:35:05 +0200, Danny Braniss wrote: On Friday, 26 December 2003 at 9:13:57 +0200, Danny Braniss wrote: hi, how can i break into the

Re: Vinum

2003-12-26 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Friday, 26 December 2003 at 15:16:38 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello folks, i have a little problem with my vinum on - FreeBSD 5.1 i wanted to create an LogVol with vinum. I have 4 physikal hard drives in my pc. and i wanted to combine 3 of them with vinum. After i have read the

Re: Messed up vinum volumes

2003-12-25 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Wednesday, 24 December 2003 at 13:40:17 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, I realy need help with this ... I had 2 volumes on my system. I have two identical 30Gb hard disk, I made one 25G, and a 3G partiton both, and created a 25G mirror volume, and a 6Gig concatenated volume (used as

Re: Vinum error Can't initialize drive a: Invalid argument

2003-12-21 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Saturday, 20 December 2003 at 13:32:11 +0100, Marc Smits wrote: Citeren Greg 'groggy' Lehey [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Computer output wrapped. On Friday, 19 December 2003 at 17:34:20 +0100, Marc Smits wrote: Hello, I am

Re: PLEASE IGNORE - EMAIL TEST

2003-12-19 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Friday, 19 December 2003 at 4:53:41 -0800, Rob Cook wrote: X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2616 Sending test mail to FreeBSD-questions annoys thousands of people. Please don't do it. We have a special mailing list FreeBSD-test@ for this purpose. Greg -- When replying to this

Re: Vinum error Can't initialize drive a: Invalid argument

2003-12-19 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Computer output wrapped. On Friday, 19 December 2003 at 17:34:20 +0100, Marc Smits wrote: Hello, I am running FreeBSD-4.7-realease and want to create a striped plex from 2 new 80Gb disks. Here's my vinum-description:

Re: I need several Linux developers to fill positions

2003-12-16 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Tuesday, 16 December 2003 at 17:48:12 -0800, Kirk Vorsatz wrote: what is the best way to post jobs. If you're looking for FreeBSD developers, use the FreeBSD-jobs mailing lists. I don't know that you'll find many Linux developers there, though. Greg -- When replying to this message,

Re: Vinum questionIncompatiblesectorsizes

2003-12-15 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Wrapped log output. On Monday, 15 December 2003 at 22:16:10 +0100, Joachim Dagerot wrote: I have a three disk IDE RAID-5 system using vinum. I do not have the root or the system disks there, but I do (did) have the /HOME on

Re: Releases...

2003-12-13 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Saturday, 13 December 2003 at 17:11:55 -0500, fbsd_user wrote: On Saturday, December 13, 2003 4:37 PM, Xpression wrote: Hi list, I've donwloading 5.0 Why that? 5.1 has been out for a long time, and 5.2 is just round the corner. but yesterday at night give me an error, when I enter the

Re: Make and rm die randomly

2003-12-12 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Saturday, 13 December 2003 at 12:25:14 +1100, Gautam Gopalakrishnan wrote: Hi, I've been using 5.1 for about 4 months now and all was well until a month back when I deleted all my installed ports. I had too many installed. Since then I've had problems with make and rm dying randomly

Re: Stupid vinum questions

2003-12-10 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Wednesday, 10 December 2003 at 17:57:56 +0100, Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote: Hi! Before I start experimenting, I would like to find out, if I am on the right track. I have got some old and small SCSI harddisks left. 1) Can I use vinum to make them look like one big ufs slice (or is it

Re: Lots of disks.

2003-12-09 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Monday, 8 December 2003 at 14:05:28 +, Lewis Thompson wrote: Hi, I'm currently using vinum to concatenate two large (120GB) disks, providing a single large(r) valume (240GB in theory ;). At the moment the volume is about 90% full and I'm looking to add three more 120GB disks and

Re: Realtek 8139 unstable?

2003-12-05 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Friday, 5 December 2003 at 8:51:30 +0200, Chris Visser wrote: Hi, I'm running FreeBSD 5.1, on a box with a Digi Sync 570 card and a Realtek 8139 network card. The Machine runs fine, most of the time, but every now and again my network card stops working for no reason. Rebooting the

Re: Realtek 8139 unstable?

2003-12-05 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Friday, 5 December 2003 at 13:01:15 +0300, den wrote: Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Friday, 5 December 2003 at 8:51:30 +0200, Chris Visser wrote: I'm running FreeBSD 5.1, on a box with a Digi Sync 570 card and a Realtek 8139 network card. The Machine runs fine, most of the time

Re: moving vinum disks

2003-12-03 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Wednesday, 3 December 2003 at 16:54:05 -0500, Matt Gostick wrote: I have a concatenated 2 drives together to make 1 large disk using vinum. Did this last year or something like that and haven't touched it since... I wish to move my vinum disks to another computer, but I really don't

Re: Vinum U320 SCSI, slower than UDMA100 IDE ?

2003-12-02 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Tuesday, 2 December 2003 at 10:26:08 +0100, Sander Smeenk wrote: Quoting Greg 'groggy' Lehey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): plex org striped 3841k You should choose a stripe size which is a multiple of the block size (presumably 16 kB). Not doing so will have a minor performance impact

Re: Avaya Wireless Networking Problems

2003-12-01 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Monday, 1 December 2003 at 18:16:10 +1100, Darryl Barlow wrote: I am a Linux user trying Freebsd. I've installed 5.1 on two machines, one of shich is connected to a wireless network through a TI pci cardbus adapator and an Avaya Silver Wireless Network Card. The card is recognised, the

Re: Vinum U320 SCSI, slower than UDMA100 IDE ?

2003-12-01 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Thursday, 27 November 2003 at 13:44:35 +0100, Sander Smeenk wrote: Hi, I recently installed a Dual P4 2.8ghz with FBSD 4.9 and made a RAID10 array of the 4 scsi disks available. The idea was that this would be faster to read from than normal IDE disks. As a test I took the company's web/

Re: Vinum setup

2003-11-28 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Friday, 28 November 2003 at 10:58:56 +0200, Ivailo Tanusheff wrote: Hi, I have some trouble setting up vinum. I think I understand how to make it start on root, but I just can't configure it. On the first line: vinum - create /etc/vinum2.cfg 1: drive a device /dev/ad0s1f ** 1 :

Re: ufs2 on a vinum volume

2003-11-26 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Wednesday, 26 November 2003 at 13:52:02 -0600, F. Even wrote: I am installing 5.1R on a P3-700 w/ 2 9GB SCSI drives. I would like to use UFS2 along with all of the extended attributes, ACL's, etc. If I use vinum on this system, will I still be able to use and take advantage of all of the

Re: Questions regarding use of 'gdb -k'

2003-11-25 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Sunday, 23 November 2003 at 18:26:38 -1000, Kent Kuriyama wrote: On Sunday, 23 November 2003 at 17:02:09 -1000, Kent Kuriyama wrote: I am having difficulty in using 'gdb -k' to track down a kernel panic. I have built a version of the kernel with the debugging symbols. After the crash I

Re: Disklabel problem IBM SCSI3 disks, vinum too

2003-11-23 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Single-line paragraphs. On Sunday, 23 November 2003 at 13:03:47 -0500, Bob Collins wrote: At 07:30 PM 11/21/2003, you wrote: On Friday, 21 November 2003 at 9:25:58 -0500, Bob Collins wrote: vinum - list 4 drives: D d

Re: hard drive bench

2003-11-23 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Sunday, 23 November 2003 at 23:01:21 +, Stefan A. Deutscher wrote: On Sun, Nov 23, 2003 at 08:58:54PM +0100, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: Hi :) Is there a hard drive speed measurement available for FreeBSD ? I don't need anything fancy, just something like hdparm -t under Linux. check

Re: vinum configuration

2003-11-23 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Sunday, 23 November 2003 at 19:15:30 -0500, dave wrote: Hello, Trying to get vinum going on a 5.1 machine, with two IDE 40 gb hard drives at the moment, two more will be added later once i know my setup is working. Below are my disklabels for ad0s1 and ad1s1 as well as the vinum

Re: Questions regarding use of 'gdb -k'

2003-11-23 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Sunday, 23 November 2003 at 17:02:09 -1000, Kent Kuriyama wrote: I am having difficulty in using 'gdb -k' to track down a kernel panic. I have built a version of the kernel with the debugging symbols. After the crash I use the 'gdb -k' command but get the following output:

Re: Monitoring a file?

2003-11-22 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Saturday, 22 November 2003 at 23:58:10 +0100, Cordula's Web wrote: Hello list, maybe someone knows the answer for the following problem already? Summary: What is the canonical way to monitor accesses to a file? Problem description: A file, let's

Re: Disklabel problem IBM SCSI3 disks, vinum too

2003-11-21 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Quotation broken. On Friday, 21 November 2003 at 9:25:58 -0500, Bob Collins wrote: At 08:41 PM 11/19/2003, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: [Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Quotation broken

Re: TEST. IGNORE please.

2003-11-19 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Tuesday, 18 November 2003 at 18:59:37 +0300, Marwan Sultan wrote: TEST No, I won't ignore it. Please DO NOT SEND TEST MESSAGES to FreeBSD-questions. It's a good way to get unsubscribed. If you have problems, use FreeBSD-test: that's what it's for. Greg -- When replying to this message,

Re: Disklabel problem IBM SCSI3 disks, vinum too

2003-11-19 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Quotation broken. On Wednesday, 19 November 2003 at 9:13:43 -0500, Bob Collins wrote: At 10:46 PM 11/17/2003, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: Do you have device nodes for da4? Has it been labelled at all? I did not have `all

Mail problems (was: SCO going after BSD???)

2003-11-19 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Wednesday, 19 November 2003 at 20:11:22 -0500, SWIT wrote: is this a unix thing or what. many times i get messages from the list were the message is an attachment and not in the email. was curious as to why. thanks newbie marine - Original Message - From: Kris Kennaway [EMAIL

Re: Disklabel problem IBM SCSI3 disks, vinum too

2003-11-17 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Friday, 14 November 2003 at 11:50:09 -0500, Bob Collins wrote: Running FBSD 4.9 on an Intel SMP mobo w/ 2 Intel PII 350s. Onboard SCSI is recognized and sees all my drives. One SCSI 3 drive is 4.5G for the OS and /usr. I have 4 identical IBM SCSI3 disks 9G each, however one of those 4 will

Re: Vinum and reserved space

2003-11-11 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Tuesday, 11 November 2003 at 17:14:27 -, Chris Howells wrote: Hi, I've just bought 2 x 160GB drives which I want to RAID 1 with vinum. I used /stand/sysinstall to fdisk and disklabel them, mounted them as /temp1 and /temp2 and checked the size of them using 'df' to stick into my

Re: Vinum and reserved space

2003-11-11 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Tuesday, 11 November 2003 at 22:44:01 +, Chris Howells wrote: On Tuesday 11 November 2003 22:16, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: I've just bought 2 x 160GB drives which I want to RAID 1 with vinum. I used /stand/sysinstall to fdisk and disklabel them, mounted them as /temp1 and /temp2

Re: Would like to volunteer my time......

2003-11-09 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Friday, 7 November 2003 at 18:17:03 +1300, Jonathan Chen wrote: On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 06:20:29PM -0800, Chad McCullough wrote: I'm hoping that I'm sending this email to the correct address. I visit the FreeBSD Personal Pages section of the FreeBSD website located at

Re: Instant-workstation is missing

2003-11-09 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Monday, 10 November 2003 at 1:17:20 +1030, Andrew wrote: Hi, I have been trying to get FreeBSD 5.2 installed but i am unable to find all the packages that are required on the official cd-rom set i brought. i have tryed installing by FTP and i am still unable to find them This gouies for

Re: Instant-workstation is missing

2003-11-09 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Monday, 10 November 2003 at 9:56:06 +1030, Andrew wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 08:48:19AM +1030, Andrew wrote: Sorry your correct it is version 5.1 1) Please don't top-post..see how this message has lost context from your original posting? 2) Which packages

Re: Instant-workstation is missing

2003-11-09 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Sunday, 9 November 2003 at 17:35:43 -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 11:59:52AM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Monday, 10 November 2003 at 9:56:06 +1030, Andrew wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 08:48:19AM +1030, Andrew wrote: Sorry your

Re: Instant-workstation is missing

2003-11-09 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Sunday, 9 November 2003 at 17:17:22 -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 02:12:56AM +0100, Alex de Kruijff wrote: On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 05:07:21PM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 01:49:59AM +0100, Alex de Kruijff wrote: On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at

Re: Periodic Daily Crash

2003-11-06 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Wednesday, 5 November 2003 at 10:18:33 -0800, Jason Watkins wrote: Hi guys, I've got a machine that's crashed now twice in a row around 3 am. I'm assuming this is being triggered by something periodic daily is running. I'm only remote access to it, so right now I'm waiting for someone to

Creating devices under FreeBSD 5.x (was: /dev/oncore.serial.%d for Motorola oncore GPS under FREEBSD 5.1)

2003-11-05 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Tuesday, 4 November 2003 at 8:52:43 +, Chris Stenton wrote: Can someone point me in the right direction on how to make /dev/oncore.serial.1 and /dev/oncore.pps.1 under FREEBSD 5.1 now that MAKEDEV has gone. The driver should create them for you. What are these devices? Greg -- When

Re: Creating devices under FreeBSD 5.x (was: /dev/oncore.serial.%d for Motorola oncore GPS under FREEBSD 5.1)

2003-11-05 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Wednesday, 5 November 2003 at 13:53:08 +0100, Simon Barner wrote: However, /dev gets regenerated after each reboot so losing the soft links. Is there a way to stop this? Coincidentally, I struggled with the same problem only 5 minutes ago. There is a configuration file /etc/devfs.conf

Re: vinum concatenated raid setup problems - SOLVED

2003-10-25 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Friday, 24 October 2003 at 12:47:52 -0400, Alvin Gunkel wrote: Mike, Thanks for the pointers on the fstab file, they solved that part of the puzzle. (and trying to help with the other issues) Greg, Thanks for pointing me to the right part of the vinum manpage...it was indeed the simple

Re: vinum concatenated raid setup problems

2003-10-24 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Friday, 24 October 2003 at 0:27:03 -0700, Mike Maltese wrote: it doesn't look like the vinum kld is being loaded, since even with the vinum config gone, it should say something like no vinum drives found, vinum not loaded in dmesg (i think, please correct me if im wrong) i will investigate

Re: vinum concatenated raid setup problems

2003-10-24 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Computer output wrapped. On Thursday, 23 October 2003 at 23:10:01 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, I have been trying without success to implement a simple vinum concatenated RAID system made up of 2 IDE drives.

Re: Vinum Offset for Swap: 265 or 281?

2003-10-22 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Wednesday, 22 October 2003 at 0:52:35 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, my understanding of the bsdlabel process seemed correct: 1) modify swap partition size to be 281 less than what sysinstall created the partition as 2) have the swap offset at 281 instead of 0 3) add vinum partition

Re: What is a unit number of a device

2003-10-22 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Tuesday, 21 October 2003 at 13:25:20 +0200, rk47 wrote: What is a unit number of a device That depends a lot on the device. For SCSI disks, you select the unit number on the drive itself. and how does it relate to the minor number of the device. Typically the last few bits of the minor

Re: Vinum Offset for Swap: 265 or 281?

2003-10-21 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Tuesday, 21 October 2003 at 18:16:05 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Sunday, 19 October 2003 at 0:42:38 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sanity check whether the mirrored vinum root drive is setup correctly. Going to setup two more machines the same way, so

Setting time zones (was: How to get out of Africa?)

2003-10-20 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Tuesday, 21 October 2003 at 18:24:51 +, Wayne M Barnes wrote: Dear FreeBSD, During installation, I accidentally hit Africa for my timezone. I have looked all over the documentation, and I cannot find out to reset my time zone. Does anybody else know? I installed 5.1 from

Re: Vinum Offset for Swap: 265 or 281?

2003-10-20 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Sunday, 19 October 2003 at 0:42:38 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Sanity check whether the mirrored vinum root drive is setup correctly. Going to setup two more machines the same way, so wanted to make sure the reference machine was setup correctly. Was surprised to see that the

Re: Monitor's picture position

2003-10-20 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Monday, 20 October 2003 at 0:30:13 +0400, CBuH wrote: I have two Os-es on one PC: Win FreeBSD, in Win picture at resolution 1280x1024 is placed (by my hand's configure) in proper position (I mean each corner on my CRT monitor). Then -- in FreeBSD I see that in such resolution (and this

Re: Hacking calendar(1)

2003-10-20 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Sunday, 19 October 2003 at 16:13:09 -0500, Charles Howse wrote: Hi, When I get my daily calendar email, there is no explanation of which entries come from which calendars. Other than hacking the source code, is there a way to get some headers like this? Music History: Oct 20

Re: volumes crash on reboot [was Re: clearing Vinum configurations]

2003-10-16 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Wednesday, 15 October 2003 at 23:14:18 -0700, aarong wrote: After some extensive testing, I've come to the conclusion that Vinum refuses to create any type of volume on the drive I'm having trouble with. I'll create any number of volumes and/or additional plexes on the second drive in the

Re: big vinum problem

2003-10-14 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Monday, 13 October 2003 at 23:46:12 -0700, Octavian Hornoiu wrote: After a power loss last night i restarted my server with a 425 gig or so RAID-5 array and expected to go through a length fsck after which the system would come up. However, one of the vinum subdisks was down. So, i

Re: clearing Vinum configurations

2003-10-14 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Saturday, 11 October 2003 at 11:23:03 -0700, aarong wrote: I've been toying with Vinum extensively these past few weeks, on 4.8, and I've yet to come across a way to effectively and *completely* clear a Vinum configuration. After creating a configuration, Vinum stores the configuration on

Re: clearing Vinum configurations

2003-10-14 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Tuesday, 14 October 2003 at 22:45:02 -0700, aarong wrote: On Tuesday, October 14, 2003, at 10:04 PM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: I'm going to need more information on this. It doesn't correspond at all with my experience. Here's an example: ... I found my problem, I would obliterate

Re: Restoring vinum root from dump

2003-10-13 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Sunday, 12 October 2003 at 16:26:10 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [Oops, didn't realize that the thread id was captured in email. Should have known, sorry.] My terminology is all wrong. Just want to do a system restore. Have two 200GB disks using vinum mirroring for vinum volumes: /,

Re: Restoring vinum root from dump (was: Problems Installing NetBSD)

2003-10-12 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Sunday, 12 October 2003 at 12:51:31 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please don't reply to different threads when you want to ask a new question. See http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html for more details. What's the

Re: writing pdfs

2003-10-10 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Friday, 10 October 2003 at 8:31:41 -0400, William O'Higgins wrote: I have grown tired of using MS Word as my standard document output format. I haven't gotten OpenOffice to work under FreeBSD (and it isn't my favourite tool by a long shot) and I am most happy generating text in vi. PDF

Re: uucp + email...

2003-10-09 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Tuesday, 7 October 2003 at 20:31:07 -0700, Chris P wrote: On Wednesday, 8 October 2003 at 10:25:52 -0700, Chris P wrote: On Wednesday, 8 October 2003 at 12:51:23 -0700, Chris P wrote: Once is enough. Sending multiple messages is a good way to be ignored or removed from the mailing list.

Re: Crash under disk writes (vinum?)

2003-10-09 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Thursday, 9 October 2003 at 13:28:48 +0100, Lewis Thompson wrote: Hi, I'm running 5.1-RELEASE (latest patch version) on a machine with a couple of disks set up in a concatenated vinum-type config. Periodically if I do some ``heavy'' writes to the concatenated disk it causes the system

Re: low-scale presenter for FreeBSD?

2003-10-05 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Sunday, 5 October 2003 at 1:23:50 +0100, Rus Foster wrote: On Sun, 5 Oct 2003, Gabriel Striewe wrote: Hello! Can anybody recommend a low-scale presentation programm in OpenOfficeImpress or PowerPoint style, but which does not use as much resources. How about saving it as HTML then

Re: Issues mirroring drives with Vinum in FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE

2003-10-04 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Computer output unwrapped. On Saturday, 4 October 2003 at 0:17:44 -0700, aarong wrote: I've successfully installed and converted a FreeBSD 4.8 install into a bootable Vinum volume many times; however mirroring that volume

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