From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.77) (envelope-from ) id 1SkmL2-00055i-Fc for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 30 Jun 2012 01:19:04 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CCB1AE0815; Sat, 30 Jun 2012 01:02:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from crowfix.com (li35-165.members.linode.com [72.14.176.165]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28779E055B for ; Sat, 30 Jun 2012 01:00:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 8904 invoked from network); 30 Jun 2012 01:02:34 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO df.crowfix.com) (10.130.13.2) by 10.130.13.1 with SMTP; 30 Jun 2012 01:02:34 -0000 Received: (qmail 6265 invoked by uid 1000); 30 Jun 2012 00:58:02 -0000 Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2012 17:58:02 -0700 From: felix@crowfix.com To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] pvcreate won't create pv Message-ID: <20120630005802.GF4982@crowfix.com> References: <20120629212651.GC4982@crowfix.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Archives-Salt: 876cc275-2cb1-44de-b836-9744d2a2fdf9 X-Archives-Hash: 7a3c4b58678a6a1b488b9a0a18787217 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. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman & rocket surgeon / felix@crowfix.com GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR license #4933 I've found a solution to Fermat's Last Theorem but I see I've run out of room o