On Sunday, May 06, 2012 05:19:20, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> On Vi, 04 mai 12, 15:08:57, Chris Knadle wrote:
...
> > Speed is generally what XFS is good at, *except* when it comes to
> > deletion of a large number of files -- that's where it's slow.
>
> On advise of a list subscriber I have added the
On Vi, 04 mai 12, 15:08:57, Chris Knadle wrote:
>
> Note this means running 'xfs_check' is done when the filesystem is not
> mounted. _Supposedly_ it can also be run if the filesystem is mounted read-
> only, but in practice I find it's best (and easier) to run the XFS commands
> from a LiveCD.
On Friday, May 04, 2012 17:31:23, Camaleón wrote:
> On Fri, 04 May 2012 15:08:57 -0400, Chris Knadle wrote:
> > On Monday, April 30, 2012 10:53:46, Camaleón wrote:
> >> On Sun, 29 Apr 2012 20:16:58 +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> >> > Am Dienstag, 24. April 2012 schrieb Camaleón:
...
> > The ste
On Fri, 04 May 2012 15:08:57 -0400, Chris Knadle wrote:
> On Monday, April 30, 2012 10:53:46, Camaleón wrote:
>> On Sun, 29 Apr 2012 20:16:58 +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
>> > Am Dienstag, 24. April 2012 schrieb Camaleón:
> ...
>> > XFS might also have long file check times.
>>
>> I still hav
On Monday, April 30, 2012 10:53:46, Camaleón wrote:
> On Sun, 29 Apr 2012 20:16:58 +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> > Am Dienstag, 24. April 2012 schrieb Camaleón:
...
> > XFS might also have long file check times.
>
> I still have not tried this so I can't really tell but what I've heard on
> X
2012/5/4 Martin Steigerwald :
>
> What kernel is this?
Debian Wheezy 3.2.0-1-686-pae
>
> This only works with util-linux fdisk not gnu-fdisk.
I have util-linux installed but I can't find the fdisk you said
support -c switch.
> Ah. I would try a newer kernel. ;)
I've tried the newest on live
Am Donnerstag, 3. Mai 2012 schrieb Ellwood Blues:
> 2012/4/30 Martin Steigerwald :
> > Am Montag, 30. April 2012 schrieb Ellwood Blues:
> >> 2012/4/30 Martin Steigerwald :
> >> > Am Montag, 30. April 2012 schrieb Chris Bannister:
> >> >> On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 08:27:03PM +0200, Martin Steigerwald
2012/4/30 Martin Steigerwald :
> Am Montag, 30. April 2012 schrieb Ellwood Blues:
>> 2012/4/30 Martin Steigerwald :
>> > Am Montag, 30. April 2012 schrieb Chris Bannister:
>> >> On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 08:27:03PM +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
>> >> > Hmmm, I´d avoid those with 4 KB hardware sect
2012/4/30 Martin Steigerwald :
> Am Montag, 30. April 2012 schrieb Ellwood Blues:
>> 2012/4/30 Martin Steigerwald :
>> > Am Montag, 30. April 2012 schrieb Chris Bannister:
>> >> On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 08:27:03PM +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
>> >> > Hmmm, I´d avoid those with 4 KB hardware sect
Am Montag, 30. April 2012 schrieb Ellwood Blues:
> 2012/4/30 Martin Steigerwald :
> > Am Montag, 30. April 2012 schrieb Chris Bannister:
> >> On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 08:27:03PM +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> >> > Hmmm, I´d avoid those with 4 KB hardware sectors that lie to the
> >> > OS they ha
2012/4/30 Martin Steigerwald :
> Am Montag, 30. April 2012 schrieb Chris Bannister:
>> On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 08:27:03PM +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
>> > Hmmm, I´d avoid those with 4 KB hardware sectors that lie to the OS
>> > they have 512 byte sectors. Although I think even those should wor
Am Montag, 30. April 2012 schrieb Chris Bannister:
> On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 08:27:03PM +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> > Hmmm, I´d avoid those with 4 KB hardware sectors that lie to the OS
> > they have 512 byte sectors. Although I think even those should work.
> > But with 512 byte sectors you
On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 02:53:46PM +, Camaleón wrote:
> I haven't had experienced any of that issues in any of my systems so I still
> find ReaiserFS the most suitable filesystem for me.
As long as you don't have any VM images using reiserfs v3 on top of a reiserfs
3 filesystem, you're probabl
On Sun, 29 Apr 2012 20:21:52 +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 24. April 2012 schrieb Camaleón:
>> > While I wait for the new 2 TB HDD, I am copying data across my home
>> > LAN to my laptop which has a 120 GB HDD. I was using the WiFi network
>> > provided by the computer consultant
On Sun, 29 Apr 2012 20:16:58 +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 24. April 2012 schrieb Camaleón:
(...)
>> As an aside note, I've been using ReiserFS in all of my linux boxes (in
>> both, servers and workstations) for the "/" partition and I never had
>> to face the long waits at bo
On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 08:16:58PM +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> I use LVM quite a lot, but I am a bit annoyed by having to vgchange -ay
> after inserting and vgchange -an before removal. I like to see a removable
> flag for LVs that lessens the locking restrictions that are important in
>
On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 08:27:03PM +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> Hmmm, I´d avoid those with 4 KB hardware sectors that lie to the OS they
> have 512 byte sectors. Although I think even those should work. But with
> 512 byte sectors you have a 2 TB limit when you use MBR partitioning.
>
> 3
Am Dienstag, 24. April 2012 schrieb Ellwood Blues:
> 2012/4/21 Sian Mountbatten :
> > I am going to buy a big USB hard drive to backup films, music and
> > photos. In fact, I might backup the system (at least, the list of
> > packages installed).
> >
> > Anybody out there tried a 2TB USB hard driv
Am Samstag, 21. April 2012 schrieb tv.deb...@googlemail.com:
> On 21/04/2012 18:36, Sian Mountbatten wrote:
> > I am going to buy a big USB hard drive to backup films, music and
> > photos. In fact, I might backup the system (at least, the list of
> > packages installed).
> >
> > Anybody out there
Am Dienstag, 24. April 2012 schrieb Camaleón:
> > While I wait for the new 2 TB HDD, I am copying data across my home
> > LAN to my laptop which has a 120 GB HDD. I was using the WiFi
> > network provided by the computer consultants downstairs: it gave me
> > 1.2 MB/s transfer rate. When I succeede
Am Dienstag, 24. April 2012 schrieb Camaleón:
> On Tue, 24 Apr 2012 13:20:05 +0200, Alberto Fuentes wrote:
> > On 21/04/12 19:34, Camaleón wrote:
> >> I'm against big partitions (500 GiB is the limit I have auto-imposed
> >> to my systems) so I would make 4 slices and spread the data over
> >> them
compressed tarballs of my daily backup using the
command
cp -av /opt/cdrw /mnt
Simple really.
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Re: 2TB USB hard drive for backing up
*1QA4xxx2a* | APR 24, 2012 | 11:57PM UTC
Thank you for submitting your
On 24/04/12 22:10, Ellwood Blues wrote:
If you want to be happy and trouble-free, try to avoid «Advanced
Format» disks. I have 2TB disks and 1.5TB too that work perfectly but
I've made the mistake to buy a 3TB WD Caviar Green («Advanced Format»)
which I can only use on Windows as a 3TB disk, Linu
If you want to be happy and trouble-free, try to avoid «Advanced
Format» disks. I have 2TB disks and 1.5TB too that work perfectly but
I've made the mistake to buy a 3TB WD Caviar Green («Advanced Format»)
which I can only use on Windows as a 3TB disk, Linux only detects
about 780MB if I remember w
On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 02:45:34PM +0100, Sian Mountbatten wrote:
> Last night, I split two film files into 4 GB pieces and used Brasero
> to write the pieces to 4 DVD+RW discs. So that's another, safe, way
> of backing up my data. I am now going to write my 4.3 GB music
> collection to another DVD
On Tue, 24 Apr 2012 14:45:34 +0100, Sian Mountbatten wrote:
> On 24/04/12 14:30, Camaleón wrote:
>> On Tue, 24 Apr 2012 13:20:05 +0200, Alberto Fuentes wrote:
>>
>>> On 21/04/12 19:34, Camaleón wrote:
>
>> Yes, and I'm against partitioning too much but considering the big
>> sizes of the actual h
On 24/04/12 14:30, Camaleón wrote:
On Tue, 24 Apr 2012 13:20:05 +0200, Alberto Fuentes wrote:
On 21/04/12 19:34, Camaleón wrote:
Yes, and I'm against partitioning too much but considering the big sizes
of the actual hard disks it has become a must, also to minimize a
filesystem corruption in
On Tue, 24 Apr 2012 13:20:05 +0200, Alberto Fuentes wrote:
> On 21/04/12 19:34, Camaleón wrote:
>> I'm against big partitions (500 GiB is the limit I have auto-imposed to
>> my systems) so I would make 4 slices and spread the data over them.
>> Anyway, I don't think you are going to have any probl
On 21/04/12 19:34, Camaleón wrote:
I'm against big partitions (500 GiB is the limit I have auto-imposed to
my systems) so I would make 4 slices and spread the data over them.
Anyway, I don't think you are going to have any problem to manage a
single partition of 2 TiB, even more if you plain to s
On 24/04/2012 04:02, Philipp Schneider wrote:
On Sat, 21 Apr 2012 21:50:02 +0200, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote:
Hi, I use seagate's ST2000DL003-9VT1 (it's some kind of "eco" drive, but
still fast) for that purpose, in raid1. No complains. I have had
disastrous experiences with WD 2TB drives (
On Sat, 21 Apr 2012 21:50:02 +0200, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote:
> Hi, I use seagate's ST2000DL003-9VT1 (it's some kind of "eco" drive, but
> still fast) for that purpose, in raid1. No complains. I have had
> disastrous experiences with WD 2TB drives (those "green" monstrosity). I
> use gpt par
On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 05:36:28PM +0100, Sian Mountbatten wrote:
> I am going to buy a big USB hard drive to backup films, music and
> photos. In fact, I might backup the system (at least, the list of
> packages installed).
>
> Anybody out there tried a 2TB USB hard drive? What did you use as
> f
On 21/04/2012 18:36, Sian Mountbatten wrote:
I am going to buy a big USB hard drive to backup films, music and
photos. In fact, I might backup the system (at least, the list of
packages installed).
Anybody out there tried a 2TB USB hard drive? What did you use as filing
system. I am intending to
On Sat, 21 Apr 2012 17:36:28 +0100, Sian Mountbatten wrote:
> I am going to buy a big USB hard drive to backup films, music and
> photos. In fact, I might backup the system (at least, the list of
> packages installed).
If you're using the disk to make a backup for one machine, USB (better
3.0) c
I am going to buy a big USB hard drive to backup films, music and
photos. In fact, I might backup the system (at least, the list of
packages installed).
Anybody out there tried a 2TB USB hard drive? What did you use as filing
system. I am intending to use ext4. Any comments?
--
Sian Mountbatt
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