Re: [arch-general] What is the current wiki-poliicy for re-writing contributions?

2016-03-21 Thread Rashif Ray Rahman
On 21 March 2016 at 23:22, David C. Rankin wrote: > What is the current policy for having wiki-contributions re-written? I have > been a wiki-contributor for years, I've more than 28 years Unix/Linux > ... There is no policy per se that helps anyone here. Whatever little write-up I have contrib

Re: [arch-general] What is the current wiki-poliicy for re-writing contributions?

2016-03-21 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 12:22:30PM -0500, David C. Rankin wrote: > What is the current policy for having wiki-contributions re-written? I have > been a wiki-contributor for years, I've more than 28 years Unix/Linux > experience, I am an attorney, a registered professional engineer, and I have >

Re: [arch-general] Adding new disks > 2T to system that boots with grub, can GPT be used for new disks?

2016-03-21 Thread David C. Rankin
On 03/21/2016 10:10 AM, L. Rose wrote: > Unless you want to boot from the new disks, you should be able to use GPT on > them. Are you sure you're using GRUB legacy? Yes, Everything worked out fine. I left 3M at the beginning just in the off chance I would want to place grub2 boot code on the ar

[arch-general] What is the current wiki-poliicy for re-writing contributions?

2016-03-21 Thread David C. Rankin
Archdevs, What is the current policy for having wiki-contributions re-written? I have been a wiki-contributor for years, I've more than 28 years Unix/Linux experience, I am an attorney, a registered professional engineer, and I have spent years doing technical writing for NASA MOD and Space Flig

Re: [arch-general] Adding new disks > 2T to system that boots with grub, can GPT be used for new disks?

2016-03-21 Thread L. Rose
Unless you want to boot from the new disks, you should be able to use GPT on them. Are you sure you're using GRUB legacy? On 21.03.2016 03:33, David C. Rankin wrote: All, I'm confused by the partitioning wiki (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Partitioning). It says: If using GRUB legac

Re: [arch-general] Why does newly created raid1 array not have /dev/disk/by-uuid entry?

2016-03-21 Thread David C. Rankin
On 03/21/2016 02:50 AM, David C. Rankin wrote: > All, > > I created GPT partitions on a pair of new 3T drives configured in raid1 as > md4 > on my system, e.g.: Sorry for the noise -- it needed a filesystem before a UUID was generated for /dev/disk/by-uuid -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

[arch-general] Why does newly created raid1 array not have /dev/disk/by-uuid entry?

2016-03-21 Thread David C. Rankin
All, I created GPT partitions on a pair of new 3T drives configured in raid1 as md4 on my system, e.g.: # cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [raid1] md4 : active raid1 sdd[1] sdc[0] 2930135488 blocks super 1.2 [2/2] [UU] [=>...] resync = 5.3% (157758400/2930135488)