On Thu 16 Aug 2012, Rich Shepard wrote: > > It's been a couple of years since I set up dirvish and I'm not seeing what > else I need to do to start using this new drive. The
You need to create a directory for the vault, and within that a directory dirvish with a default.conf file. Then initialize it with dirvish --init --vault whatever > On a related topic: while laptop hard drives are meant to be turned on and > off, I'm wondering if doing so with the failed WD Caviar Blue drive > shortened its life. Since the PC-1 with a hard drive there's always been the > debate about leaving a system with the hard drive spun up or shutting it > down each night. I know that hard drives have improved over the past 3 > decades but would like your opinions on whether to leave this external drive > on continuously or shut it off in the morning and turn it on in the evening. I don't think it matters much nowadays. I usually leave things on as I'm too lazy to switch them off or too impatient to wait for them to start up :) Paul _______________________________________________ Dirvish mailing list [email protected] http://www.dirvish.org/mailman/listinfo/dirvish
