From: William Kenworthy <billk@iinet.net.au>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] SMR drives (WAS: cryptsetup close and device in use when it is not)
Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2021 12:58:29 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7e6b56a2-917f-4dd6-3599-722bca5162ca@iinet.net.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6104C897.5010505@youngman.org.uk>
On 31/7/21 11:50 am, Wols Lists wrote:
> On 31/07/21 04:14, William Kenworthy wrote:
>> (seagate lists it as a 5Tb drive managed SMR)
>>
>> It was sold as a USB3 4Tb desktop expansion drive, fdisk -l shows "Disk
>> /dev/sde: 3.64 TiB, 4000787029504 bytes, 7814037167 sectors" and Seagate
>> is calling it 5Tb - marketing!
> Note that it's now official, TB is decimal and TiB is binary, so a 4TB
> drive being 3.64TiB makes sense. TB is 10e9, while TiB is 2e30.
>
> btw, you're scrubbing over USB? Are you running a raid over USB? Bad
> things are likely to happen ...
>
> Cheers,
> Wol
>
I am amused in a cynical way at disk manufacturers using decimal values ...
Its not raid, just a btrfs single on disk (no partition). Contains a
single borgbackup repo for an offline backup of all the online
borgbackup repo's I have for a 3 times a day backup rota of individual
machines/data stores - I get an insane amount of de-duplication that way
for a slight decrease in conveniance!
BillK
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2021-06-14 4:50 [gentoo-user] cryptsetup close and device in use when it is not Dale
2021-06-15 13:48 ` Ramon Fischer
2021-06-15 14:21 ` Dale
2021-06-15 14:52 ` Jack
2021-06-15 15:26 ` Dale
2021-06-15 19:04 ` Ramon Fischer
2021-06-21 4:18 ` Dale
2021-06-21 4:49 ` Dale
2021-06-21 5:41 ` Dale
2021-06-21 5:59 ` Dale
2021-06-28 3:35 ` Dale
2021-07-05 3:19 ` Dale
2021-07-06 18:40 ` Ramon Fischer
2021-07-06 19:43 ` Dale
2021-07-07 14:48 ` Dr Rainer Woitok
2021-07-07 18:08 ` Dale
2021-07-08 8:20 ` Ramon Fischer
2021-07-12 8:31 ` Dale
2021-07-12 13:14 ` Ramon Fischer
2021-08-02 13:33 ` Dale
2021-08-09 13:38 ` Ramon Fischer
2021-09-19 11:55 ` Dale
2021-07-25 20:29 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2021-07-25 23:10 ` Dale
2021-07-26 21:00 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2021-07-26 22:48 ` Dale
2021-07-29 16:46 ` Wols Lists
2021-07-29 20:55 ` [gentoo-user] [OT] SMR drives (WAS: cryptsetup close and device in use when it is not) Frank Steinmetzger
2021-07-29 21:31 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2021-07-30 12:48 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2021-07-30 5:14 ` William Kenworthy
2021-07-30 14:29 ` Rich Freeman
2021-07-30 16:50 ` antlists
2021-07-30 18:38 ` Rich Freeman
2021-07-31 3:14 ` William Kenworthy
2021-07-31 3:50 ` Wols Lists
2021-07-31 4:58 ` William Kenworthy [this message]
2021-07-31 12:12 ` Rich Freeman
2021-08-01 0:41 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2021-08-01 0:56 ` Rich Freeman
2021-07-31 16:38 ` antlists
2021-08-01 0:50 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2021-08-01 3:36 ` William Kenworthy
2021-08-01 3:46 ` William Kenworthy
2021-08-01 21:38 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2021-08-02 5:38 ` William Kenworthy
2021-08-02 21:52 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2021-08-02 23:10 ` William Kenworthy
2021-08-03 8:18 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2021-08-05 20:40 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2021-08-06 7:22 ` William Kenworthy
2021-08-01 21:55 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2021-08-02 6:12 ` William Kenworthy
2021-08-02 22:03 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2021-08-02 23:35 ` William Kenworthy
2021-08-01 3:41 ` William Kenworthy
2021-08-01 21:41 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2021-07-31 12:21 ` Rich Freeman
2021-07-31 12:59 ` William Kenworthy
2021-07-31 13:30 ` Rich Freeman
2021-08-01 3:05 ` William Kenworthy
2021-08-01 11:37 ` Rich Freeman
2021-07-31 5:23 ` William Kenworthy
2021-06-15 17:48 ` [gentoo-user] Re: cryptsetup close and device in use when it is not Remy Blank
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