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USB Drive Software Disk Mirroring - Is this the right approach?
I have a 1TB NTFS USB Data Drive (no boot, etc...) that I would like to keep a mirror of as a backup in case of hardware failure.
It is always connected to my raspberry pi running the raspbian ...
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Automatically run kpartx during boot
I'm running Debian Wheezy on an SSD, and in addition I have two 500GB hard disks in Intel software RAID 0 (fakeraid). Both the SSD and the RAID array have GPT partition layouts. I have set up my fstab ...
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Where did 47gigabytes of space go?
Clean installation od Debian squeeze 6.0.6 x64 on intel atom 230, with 3 HDDs, with 3x500GB.
df -h shows :
datastore size used free % mounted
/dev/md0 917G 909M 870G ...
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Adaptec 2610SA (RAID controller) is not detected by Debian Squeeze 6.0.6 installer. What to do?
Big problem. I have a Gigabyte GA230CD with intel atom 230 and 3 WD RE4 disks. Problem is, that any disks connected to the Adaptec 2610sa RAID controller cannot be seen in Debian Squeeze installer.
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Atom 230 + 2GB RAM datastore for small server = 64 bit or 32 bit debian
would you recommend me for small debian linux with small apache, small mysql and primary datastore with SW RAID 5 just 32bit debian or rather 64bit and why?
I have only 2 GB of RAM, so could that be ...
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What chunk size for KVM under Debian linux is optimal with RAID 5?
I would like to know, how to set optimal chunk size for my debian squeeze in future.
I Work with 3x WD RE4 500Gb 7200RPM in SW-RAID 5, under debian squeeze. (in the future maybe under wheezy)
I Saw ...
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Very slow SW-RAID 5 in Debian Squeeze
I don't know why, but I have big trouble with speed of my raid.
I have 4x WD RE4 7200RPM 500GB. Size of RAID 5 is 1000GB. 1 of HDDs is Spare.
Problem is here:
Every 1,0s: cat /proc/mdstat ...
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SW-RAID 5 - how much CPU time and performance can it take?
I have Debian squeeze 6.0.4, 4x WD RE4 500Gb 7200RPM, Athlon II X4 600E and 24GB RAM DDR3.
Since I work with SW raid 5, it takes much more CPU, than I think is enough.
How can I get know, how much ...
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Software raid + separate partitions?
I have setup software RAID1-arrays using two 250GB harddrives. There's two arrays - one named md0 in which the system is kept and the other, md1 works as swap:
# cat /proc/mdstat
md0 : active raid1 ...
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If there's no /dev/md* and not /proc/mdstat, is it safe to use a second disk as a second disk?
There's two HDs in this server. I don't see an md device (see title) or an mdstat file. So, can I be safe that the second disk is currently unused?
Yes, I do want/need the second disk as space much ...
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What would be a good choice for an elastic file system (for adding storage at a later date)?
I'm currently running a Debian 6.0 server with EXT3, but I'd like to move over to Arch. It's being used as a file server right now with a 1TB drive in it (of which 650GB in it is used). What I'd like ...
