From: felix@crowfix.com
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] pvcreate won't create pv
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2012 17:58:02 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120630005802.GF4982@crowfix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+czFiCGxCofOvgFid4PRhe42khjrmZhbMwNGH1P2xrEBsyzTw@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 08:13:54PM -0400, Michael Mol wrote:
> ...I don't know, but I think you ought to burn in those drives before
> you move all of your data onto them. One good way might be to create,
> damage and rebuild a raid5 volume on them. They're at the high risk
> period of their lifetime, and you don't want them to fail once you've
> got data on them.
I don't have much data at all for them yet. My plan is to gradually
fill them, and have two sets of USB backups in the fire safe. It may
take years to fill them, so the USB backups will start small and
gradually expand as necessary.
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-06-30 1:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-06-29 21:26 [gentoo-user] pvcreate won't create pv felix
2012-06-29 21:56 ` covici
2012-06-29 22:05 ` felix
2012-06-30 1:02 ` covici
2012-06-30 1:57 ` felix
2012-06-30 1:26 ` [gentoo-user] " walt
2012-06-30 20:09 ` [gentoo-user] " Stroller
2012-06-30 0:05 ` Paul Colquhoun
2012-06-30 0:55 ` felix
2012-06-30 0:13 ` Michael Mol
2012-06-30 0:58 ` felix [this message]
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