Re: Potential to loose data in case of disk failure

2015-11-13 Thread Austin S Hemmelgarn
On 2015-11-13 09:51, Chris Murphy wrote: On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 12:23 PM, Dmitry Katsubo wrote: If so then I think this is a trap, and mkfs.btrfs should at least warn (or require --force) if two partitions are on the same drive for raid1/raid5/raid10. Does mdadm warn in the

Re: Potential to loose data in case of disk failure

2015-11-13 Thread Chris Murphy
On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 12:23 PM, Dmitry Katsubo wrote: > On 2015-11-12 13:47, Austin S Hemmelgarn wrote: >>> That's a pretty unusual setup, so I'm not surprised there's no quick and >>> easy answer. The best solution in my opinion would be to shuffle your >>> partitions around and

Re: Potential to loose data in case of disk failure

2015-11-12 Thread Austin S Hemmelgarn
On 2015-11-11 15:24, Sean Greenslade wrote: On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 11:30:57AM -0600, Jim Murphy wrote: Hi all, What am I missing or misunderstanding? I have a newly purchased laptop I want/need to multi boot different OSs on. As a result after partitioning I have ended up with two

Re: Potential to loose data in case of disk failure

2015-11-12 Thread Austin S Hemmelgarn
On 2015-11-12 12:23, Dmitry Katsubo wrote: On 2015-11-12 13:47, Austin S Hemmelgarn wrote: That's a pretty unusual setup, so I'm not surprised there's no quick and easy answer. The best solution in my opinion would be to shuffle your partitions around and combine sda3 and sda8 into a single

Re: Potential to loose data in case of disk failure

2015-11-12 Thread Dmitry Katsubo
On 2015-11-12 13:47, Austin S Hemmelgarn wrote: >> That's a pretty unusual setup, so I'm not surprised there's no quick and >> easy answer. The best solution in my opinion would be to shuffle your >> partitions around and combine sda3 and sda8 into a single partition. >> There's generally no

Potential to loose data in case of disk failure

2015-11-11 Thread Jim Murphy
Hi all, What am I missing or misunderstanding? I have a newly purchased laptop I want/need to multi boot different OSs on. As a result after partitioning I have ended up with two partitions on each of the two internal drives(sda3, sda8, sdb3 and sdb8). FWIW, sda3 and sdb3 are the same size and

Re: Potential to loose data in case of disk failure

2015-11-11 Thread Duncan
Chris Murphy posted on Wed, 11 Nov 2015 18:13:22 -0500 as excerpted: > On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 12:30 PM, Jim Murphy > wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> What am I missing or misunderstanding? I have a newly purchased laptop >> I want/need to multi boot different OSs on. As a

Re: Potential to loose data in case of disk failure

2015-11-11 Thread Sean Greenslade
On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 11:30:57AM -0600, Jim Murphy wrote: > Hi all, > > What am I missing or misunderstanding? I have a newly > purchased laptop I want/need to multi boot different OSs > on. As a result after partitioning I have ended up with two > partitions on each of the two internal

Re: Potential to loose data in case of disk failure

2015-11-11 Thread Chris Murphy
On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 12:30 PM, Jim Murphy wrote: > Hi all, > > What am I missing or misunderstanding? I have a newly > purchased laptop I want/need to multi boot different OSs > on. As a result after partitioning I have ended up with two > partitions on each of the