RE: FreeBSD5.1 Vinum Mirror root

2003-07-28 Thread Richard Johannesson
and found the power of FreeBSD, but power = complexity. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tillman Sent: Sunday, July 27, 2003 9:03 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: FreeBSD5.1 Vinum Mirror root On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 09:57:23PM -0700, Richard

Re: FreeBSD5.1 Vinum Mirror root

2003-07-28 Thread Tillman
On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 12:03:55AM -0700, Richard Johannesson wrote: Is there ever an advantage of having two slices for a drive when running just one copy of FreeBSD on there? So, let's say split the 200GB into two slices. First will have the standard partitions /, /var, /tmp, swap, /usr.

RE: FreeBSD5.1 Vinum Mirror root

2003-07-27 Thread Richard Johannesson
Actually there is one other source I found: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/vinum/ Good arcticle, but a little old so I'm guessing it's not appropriate for Rel 5.1 since vinum setup / support in 5.1 has been improved. Is this a bad assumption? Again, I'm just trying to figure

Re: FreeBSD5.1 Vinum Mirror root

2003-07-27 Thread Tillman
On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 09:57:23PM -0700, Richard Johannesson wrote: Is this second method outdate, or is there simply several ways to accomplish this task. I'm new to FreeBSD, so setting up vinum seems a little overwhelming. Just trying to mirror a 200GB root drive with another 200GB drive.