On Thu, Jan 6, 2022, 3:33 PM Rich Shepard <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Jan 2022, Ben Koenig wrote: > > > Step away from the command prompt and look at your enclosure as someone > > who will be using it every single day. > > > > - How many bays does your enclosure have? > > -How many ports does it use to connect to your computer? > > -What kind of ports are they? > > -which ports do they connect to on your computer? > > Ben, > > All the above is well defined: 4 bays, 1 USB connection on each end of the > cable. > > > Forget about drive letters. You cant rely on sda/b/c for this so set > fdisk aside. > > I'm used to thinking of drive letters; have done so for ~40 years. > > You can give labels to the disks if you can't remember the uuid's https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/persistent_block_device_naming Bill The RAID drives seem to be doing okay. > > To make life simpler for myself, now and later, I'll wipe the two 2TiB > drives and install ext4 on each which will be mounted as /data2 and /data3 > since no spatial data file I have (or likely will have) will be anywhere > near that size. > > Thanks, > > Rich >
