From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F04A513838B for ; Sat, 13 Sep 2014 17:39:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AC975E08CE; Sat, 13 Sep 2014 17:38:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38D56E0784 for ; Sat, 13 Sep 2014 17:38:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from hactar.digimed.co.uk (hactar.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.3]) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id BB0952342A for ; Sat, 13 Sep 2014 18:38:55 +0100 (BST) Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2014 18:38:36 +0100 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] duplicate HD drives Message-ID: <20140913183836.2b8f92b5@hactar.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20140912235257.1b7d0e18@digimed.co.uk> References: <20140912215319.GA13628@syscon7> <20140912235257.1b7d0e18@digimed.co.uk> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.10.1-119-g7fbc83 (GTK+ 2.24.24; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 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: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; boundary="Sig_/uC_sfSwLlN4Al4TW2syWWON"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: b06182a6-7afe-4dde-be43-17473b156c94 X-Archives-Hash: e330b0021ddbb39c2d3e201dd6b60396 --Sig_/uC_sfSwLlN4Al4TW2syWWON Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 12 Sep 2014 23:52:57 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > If you remove the cunt argument as already mentioned, this will copy the > whole drive, but it will be incredibly slow unless you add bs=3D4k. It > also only copies it once, as soon as you start using sda, sdb will be > out of date. Set up a RAID-1 array with the two drives, then install > GRUB to the boot sector of each drive, using grub2-install and you will > always be able to boot in the event of a failure of either drive. >=20 >=20 > --=20 > Neil Bothwick >=20 > Always proofread carefully to see if you any words out. Thank you everybody for not highlighting the irony of that tagline... --=20 Neil Bothwick "Time is the best teacher....., unfortunately it kills all the students" --Sig_/uC_sfSwLlN4Al4TW2syWWON Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAlQUgSEACgkQum4al0N1GQNumgCgw/X2G3Ai1M4M1pm9kEuX/tGY YSwAoLaHB3r1cXXK4WLMpkWYNKMczV9P =gjxp -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/uC_sfSwLlN4Al4TW2syWWON--