Whooww you are great
Shit when i first read this it took me a while to understand it. Now i do and i respect your method. I can be very handy in the future if it would ever happen to me (hope not)
View Articleneed help determining the partition size of working disks.
I am the lucky person to take over the maintenance of an existing RAID5 array. Recently I realized that sda was dead. Obviously I have to replace the disk with a new working one. The problem is, I need...
View Article*fdisk*
There's a number of tools for doing that, including fdisk, cfdisk, or sfdisk, I think.
View ArticleGreat tutorial, easy and very helpful
Thanks for this tutorial, I was looking for this information on several different occasions and never found anything simple enough for me. Tonight I found this, I made some notes and added it to my...
View ArticlePartitions on RAID?
Hey,just wondering, why do you create a single partition on the RAID and encrypt it afterwards? Couldn't you go with the plain "device" directly? (Same applies to the whole disks too, but there one is...
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So much technical details and explanation of this thing is almost impossible to find somewhere else. I would like to say that you are really doing a great job, thanks for sharing it with us!
View ArticlePartitions on RAID
Hm, true. I didn't really think much about this. Using the plain /dev/sdc and /dev/sdd should work equally fine, yes.Uwe.
View ArticleHelped me building my own NAS
Very comprehensive page, thanks a lot! I've planned to build my own NAS server with a beagle board (www.beagleboard.org) and I found all required informations here (using a 2.6.35 kernel on debian)....
View Articleauto mount what to change in /etc/fstab and /etc/cryptab file
After reboot my auto-mounting of encrypted does not come up.df -k # df -k Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sda1 151780516 3026000 141044464 3% / none 1016108 664 1015444 1% /dev...
View ArticleHi. I'm kind of clueless
Hi.I'm kind of clueless with these things (just an ordinary Planet Debian reader, you know) but I couldn't help noticing something weird (to my eye, that is...).You use '$' in front of shell commands...
View ArticleAt least with older kernels,
At least with older kernels, if you reboot before the re-sync completes it starts the re-sync from the beginning again.
View ArticleRestarting during an mdadm
Restarting during an mdadm resync is not fatal. However, until the resync finishes, you are at the same risk of data loss you would have without the RAID getting the new disk in. Since many disk...
View ArticleShell
Hi, I don't intend to denote root vs. non-root when writing "$", it's just a sign that a shell command follows. My .bashrc actually uses neither "#" nor "$" as shell prompt.Uwe.
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