On 04/30/2010 10:13 AM, Thomas Bächler wrote:
> Am 30.04.2010 01:37, schrieb bardo:
>> Parted automatically warned me about an unoptimal sector alignment
>> when I tried to put the first partition at 0 (the first partition
>> should start at 2MB), but if you want to be extra-sure just check the
>>
Am 30.04.2010 01:37, schrieb bardo:
> Parted automatically warned me about an unoptimal sector alignment
> when I tried to put the first partition at 0 (the first partition
> should start at 2MB), but if you want to be extra-sure just check the
> the '-a optimal' parameter. About the disk reliabili
2010/4/30 Robert Howard :
> How did you get two drives into RAID5 and if so, why?
Just run 'mdadm --create /dev/md0 --level=5 --raid-devices=2 /dev/sda1
/dev/sdb1', it's as simple as that. Why? Because I still have four
free bays on that machine, and someday I'll surely want to expand the
disks wi
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 2:37 AM, bardo wrote:
> Parted automatically warned me about an unoptimal sector alignment
> when I tried to put the first partition at 0 (the first partition
> should start at 2MB), but if you want to be extra-sure just check the
> the '-a optimal' parameter.
Great to hea
How did you get two drives into RAID5 and if so, why?
On Apr 29, 2010 7:38 PM, "bardo" wrote:
2010/4/29 Caleb Cushing :
> On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 9:22 PM, Marti Raudsepp wrote:
>> However, this WD disk ...
Just two days ago I built an Arch NAS/HTPC with two 2TB WD Caviar
Green WD20EARS (the on
2010/4/29 Caleb Cushing :
> On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 9:22 PM, Marti Raudsepp wrote:
>> However, this WD disk crashed after barely 3 days of operation and I
>> replaced it with a normal 512-byte sector Seagate.
>>
> eek! hope the ones I ordered today don't do that.
Just two days ago I built an Arch
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 9:22 PM, Marti Raudsepp wrote:
> However, this WD disk crashed after barely 3 days of operation and I
> replaced it with a normal 512-byte sector Seagate.
>
eek! hope the ones I ordered today don't do that.
New article on developer works 'bout them
http://www.ibm.com/devel
On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 3:52 AM, Caleb Cushing wrote:
> has anyone installed arch on one of these drives? thinking about
> buying a pair and running them mirrored... but not sure if everything
> will be working optimal. note: since I'll have to migrate off an
> existing drive I can use the tools i
On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 7:12 PM, Thomas Bächler wrote:
> You should google more to see if 4k sectors are really well-supported now.
>
I've actually done quite a bit of research. But most if it came back
upstream. So I thought I'd better ask in an arch specific context.
According to one of the late
Am 22.04.2010 21:43, schrieb Caleb Cushing:
> On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 3:40 AM, Thomas Bächler wrote:
>> I think the very very latest util-linux-ng will have fdisk/cfdisk
>>
>
> is that shipping on any of the install disks?
>
http://build.archlinux.org/isos/
The 2010.04.19 images should have th
On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 3:40 AM, Thomas Bächler wrote:
> I think the very very latest util-linux-ng will have fdisk/cfdisk
>
is that shipping on any of the install disks?
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On Wed, 2010-04-21 at 10:31 +0200, Uli Armbruster wrote:
> I can second that, I don't have Arch installed on a 4k drive but I
> have an external drive, which I partitioned with fdisk -c -u /dev/sdX
> and there's no speed drop at all, so you can use this command line
> without any worries
Some of t
* Thomas Bächler [21.04.2010 09:41]:
> Am 21.04.2010 09:34, schrieb Jan de Groot:
> > On Tue, 2010-04-20 at 20:52 -0400, Caleb Cushing wrote:
> >> has anyone installed arch on one of these drives? thinking about
> >> buying a pair and running them mirrored... but not sure if everything
> >> will b
Am 21.04.2010 09:34, schrieb Jan de Groot:
> On Tue, 2010-04-20 at 20:52 -0400, Caleb Cushing wrote:
>> has anyone installed arch on one of these drives? thinking about
>> buying a pair and running them mirrored... but not sure if everything
>> will be working optimal. note: since I'll have to migr
On Tue, 2010-04-20 at 20:52 -0400, Caleb Cushing wrote:
> has anyone installed arch on one of these drives? thinking about
> buying a pair and running them mirrored... but not sure if everything
> will be working optimal. note: since I'll have to migrate off an
> existing drive I can use the tools
has anyone installed arch on one of these drives? thinking about
buying a pair and running them mirrored... but not sure if everything
will be working optimal. note: since I'll have to migrate off an
existing drive I can use the tools installed on that to partition it
first. Is there anything I sho
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