Ok, here's the plan for this weekend:

I'm going to do a fresh install of Slack 12.0 on new SATA drive hardware. Then I'm going to migrate the components I want from the old partitions,
to the new.

I'm installing a pair of 250 Gbyte SATA drives. From these I will slice
256 Mbyte partitions to give me 512 Mbyte of swap space. Then a pair of
64 Mbyte partitions for /boot and two 4 Gbyte partitions for / (root).
These two sets of partitions will be /dev/md0 and /dev/md1 RAID1
(mirrored) partitions. I think I should be able to get RAID/root to work without too much trouble, since it's been done before.

The remainder of the drives will be configured as one (or more, if I can
think why) identical partition(s) per drive, and will become /dev/md2 (and
so on) RAID1 partition(s), which will be the Physical Volume(s) of a ~245 Gbyte Volume Group. All subsequent filesystems will be built in Logical Volumes on this VG.

Later, I may create partitions as additional LVs and copy certain non- essential (for booting) parts of the directory structure to that. I'm
talking bits like /usr/src and /home which (/home in particular) tends to
get biggish on my workstation. It may be valuable to be able to use LVM
to give my home directory an occasional 10 gig of extra space from the
pool of unused space in my VG. :)

Hope all goes well!


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Re: New disk drives
By: Angus McLeod to All on Fri Jul 13 2007 08:17 pm

I'm going to do a fresh install of Slack 12.0 on new SATA drive hardware. Then I'm going to migrate the components I want from the old partitions,
to the new.

I'm installing a pair of 250 Gbyte SATA drives. From these I will slice

250 gig sata drives are 'new'?

you should atleast got 500 gig drives.
save yourself the headache in the not so distant future.

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Re: New disk drives
By: Jas Hud to Angus McLeod on Tue Jul 17 2007 23:14:00

250 gig sata drives are 'new'?

Not 'new' meaning that they are state-of-the-art or cutting-edge. 'New', meaning they have never been used before and have just been purchased by
me.


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Re: New disk drives
By: Jas Hud to Angus McLeod on Tue Jul 17 2007 23:14:00

250 gig sata drives are 'new'?

Not 'new' meaning that they are state-of-the-art or cutting-edge. 'New', meaning they have never been used before and have just been purchased by
me.

Never assume that. I went to Fry's and picked up a 160MB Maxtor drive.
Plugged it in to install Windoze for a customer and it said an operating
system was already on the disk. Decided to pull it and see what was
going on. Appears to have had Vista installed and partially removed.
However there were tons of photographs that a previous user had loaded
and not removed. Pictures of trips to China, Louisiana, birthday
parties. No nekkid chicks tho :(. I couldn't find evidence of credit
cards or anything so just went and reformatted the drive. :) Of course,
I got a new one for my customer.

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Re: New disk drives
By: Angus McLeod to Jas Hud on Wed Jul 18 2007 12:45 am

250 gig sata drives are 'new'?

Not 'new' meaning that they are state-of-the-art or cutting-edge. 'New', meaning they have never been used before and have just been purchased by
me.

like i said, you're better off getting 500gig

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Re: Re: New disk drives
By: Nelgin to All on Wed Jul 18 2007 11:29 am

Never assume that. I went to Fry's and picked up a 160MB Maxtor drive. Plugged it in to install Windoze for a customer and it said an operating system was already on the disk. Decided to pull it and see what was
going on. Appears to have had Vista installed and partially removed.
However there were tons of photographs that a previous user had loaded

yeah, i read a story about a tech at best buy who worked on what he thought was a new computer before giving it to a customer.. it already had an OS on it, and it was from china.

the manager told him to del the accts and act like nothing happened.

btw geeksquad are 'noobs' who shouldnt be touching people's computers :D

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Re: Re: New disk drives
By: Nelgin to All on Wed Jul 18 2007 11:29:00

Not 'new' meaning that they are state-of-the-art or cutting-edge. 'New', meaning they have never been used before and have just been purchased by me.

Never assume that. I went to Fry's and picked up a 160MB Maxtor drive. Plugged it in to install Windoze for a customer and it said an operating system was already on the disk. Decided to pull it and see what was
going on. Appears to have had Vista installed and partially removed.

Well, I specifically said I wanted *NEW* drives, not reconditioned units
or 'field-tested' disks, and I watched him pull the drives from a box with
the seals still in place. When the drives went into the machine, there
were no partitions on them.

I guess they could still be pulling a fast one, but I'm going to assume
not.


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Re: New disk drives
By: Jas Hud to Angus McLeod on Fri Jul 20 2007 12:13:00

like i said, you're better off getting 500gig

But then I'd be paying more money that I want to, for more disk space than
I currently need. As it is, I will probably discard these drives long
before I ever fill them.


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Re: New disk drives
By: Angus McLeod to Jas Hud on Fri Jul 20 2007 05:33 pm

Re: New disk drives
By: Jas Hud to Angus McLeod on Fri Jul 20 2007 12:13:00

like i said, you're better off getting 500gig

But then I'd be paying more money that I want to, for more disk space than
I currently need. As it is, I will probably discard these drives long before I ever fill them.

how much do 500 gig drives cost over there?

prices are dropping like crazy in the us.

i'm prettys sure i got these two brandname 500gig sata drives for $120 each
or less.

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Re: New disk drives
By: Angus McLeod to Jas Hud on Fri Jul 20 2007 05:33 pm

Re: New disk drives
By: Jas Hud to Angus McLeod on Fri Jul 20 2007 12:13:00

like i said, you're better off getting 500gig

But then I'd be paying more money that I want to, for more disk space than
I currently need. As it is, I will probably discard these drives long before I ever fill them.

how much do 500 gig drives cost over there?

prices are dropping like crazy in the us.

i'm prettys sure i got these two brandname 500gig sata drives for $120 each or less.

I'm guessing Angus doesn't do porn...



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Re: Re: New disk drives
By: Finnigann to Jas Hud on Sat Jul 21 2007 20:02:00

I'm guessing Angus doesn't do porn...

When I was cleaning out /home/amcleod I found a whole buncha pr0n!


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Re: Re: New disk drives
By: Finnigann to Jas Hud on Sat Jul 21 2007 20:02:00

I'm guessing Angus doesn't do porn...

When I was cleaning out /home/amcleod I found a whole buncha pr0n!

I could prolly get by with a 40 MEGGER if I cleaned out my drives...
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Re: New disk drives
By: Angus McLeod to All on Fri Jul 13 2007 08:17 pm

Ok, here's the plan for this weekend:

I'm going to do a fresh install of Slack 12.0 on new SATA drive hardware. Then I'm going to migrate the components I want from the old partitions,
to the new.

Hope all goes well!

Triphod get a transplant?

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Re: New disk drives
By: Radagast to Angus McLeod on Tue Jul 31 2007 15:06:00

Triphod get a transplant?

Yep. All RAID-1 now. And everything but the root partition is on LVM.

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Re: New disk drives
By: Angus McLeod to Radagast on Thu Aug 02 2007 12:40 am

Triphod get a transplant?

Yep. All RAID-1 now. And everything but the root partition is on LVM.

Sweet. Protect that .ogg collection.

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