Re: Migrate to 3TB disk

2012-09-14 Thread Mark Allums
On 9/14/2012 3:22 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Vi, 14 sep 12, 17:22:36, Hendrik Boom wrote: Which probably means building a new file system and copying all the files. Even if it's possible to upgrade in place, it would probably mean preserving the existing low-level structure, like 512-byte s

Re: Migrate to 3TB disk

2012-09-14 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 14 sep 12, 17:22:36, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > Which probably means building a new file system and copying all the > files. Even if it's possible to upgrade in place, it would probably > mean preserving the existing low-level structure, like 512-byte sectors > instead of 4K sectors. The

Re: Migrate to 3TB disk

2012-09-14 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Fri, 14 Sep 2012 09:22:51 -0700, Kelly Clowers wrote: > >> (1d) EFI > > Only applies with a pretty new motherboard that supports it. I was under the impression that an old BIOS (which is what I probably have) doesn't know how to understand how to understand the partition table that comes w

Re: Migrate to 3TB disk

2012-09-14 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Fri, 14 Sep 2012 19:55:58 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Vi, 14 sep 12, 15:20:26, Hendrik Boom wrote: >> >> Now currently my machine has two small (750G) disks that it stores the >> bulk of its files on, and one tiny (250G) IDE disk that it boots from. > > Tiny? That's almost as big as my

Re: Migrate to 3TB disk

2012-09-14 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 14 sep 12, 15:20:26, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > Now currently my machine has two small (750G) disks that it stores the > bulk of its files on, and one tiny (250G) IDE disk that it boots from. Tiny? That's almost as big as my entire storage (2 x 160 GiB). > (1c) file and partition size lim

Re: Migrate to 3TB disk

2012-09-14 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 8:20 AM, Hendrik Boom wrote: > I have two new 3TB disks. I'm adding them to an existing Debian (stable/ > squeeze AMD64) system. ... > I have several questions: > > (1) Is there up-to-date documentation on these matters. I'd love to RTFM > if only I could find the FM. I