[nlug] useful command o' the day

Currently messing about with a software raid (md). Found a nice how-to that included a couple of generally useful commands: lsblk -o NAME,SIZE,FSTYPE,MOUNTPOINT and cat /prod/mdstat Enjo

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and if you "watch cat /proc/mdstat", you can watch the progress as your RAID array is built or re-built. *Chris McQuistion* Director of Information Technology Currey Ingram Academy 6544 Murray Lane, Brentwood, TN, 37027 *o* 615.507.3175 *c* 615.525.5877 www.curreyingram.org On Fri, Ju

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Would you favor LVM over "hardware" (quote is half intentional)? My twin brother's advice is that this way I can avoid vendor lock-in. And if something goes south I can still migrate to anything which provides JBOD. On Fri, Jun 8, 2018 at 8:00 AM, Chris McQuistion < chris.mcquist...@curreyingram

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I don’t think of Linux software RAID as the same as LVM but yes I would prefer Linux software RAID over hardware RAID because the performance is very good and the array is portable. I had a hardware RAID card die on me, many years ago, and it made me realize that I was dependent on that single p

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True. LVM is not remotely equivalent, but can be utilized towards use cases of disk arrays. A well versed RAID controller makes it easy to set up a RAID 50 for example but as you experienced, they can age and things can go wrong. Some of them are true hardware RAID, like lats time I dealt with an A