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 fact that I was trying to build the configuration on >> disk's rather than partitions that was sabotaging the mission! > > I see this has been solved, but i'll throw one more gotcha to watch > for out there. Use of 'vinum saveconfig' is a good thing.
It has no effect under these circumstances. > From the vinum man page: > >> saveconfig >> Save the current configuration to disk. Normally this is not >> necessary, Please note. >> since vinum automatically saves any change in configuration. If an >> error occurs on startup, updates will be disabled. When you >> reenable them with the setdaemon command, vinum does not >> automatically save the configuration to disk. Use this command to >> save the configuration. > > As I was learning to use vinum I made frequent mistakes, disabling > updates, then built the system, rebooted, and nothing survived ;) > Had to rtfm a couple of times before I caught that. Vinum now reminds you every time you enter a command if configuration updates are disabled. The trouble with recommending this sort of thing is that it has no relevance, and it'll go down in folklore as a solution to all kinds of problems, when in fact it has a very limited scope and wouldn't have helped here. 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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