Tag: disk
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LZOP is my friend
I’ve been doing a lot of disk cloning lately, working up instructions for duplicating a “sysprep” style Fedora image for the LANforge product. Now that live CDs tend to allow live installation of packages, I can boot one, plugin in a stick with the archive of my raw image, and install pv and lzop and […]
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Raw ZVOL access in ZFS on Linux not an option for VirtualBox?
I have gotten about as far as I can go…I can boot a Fedora netinstall cd, and I can attempt to fdisk /dev/sda, but this device will not open in fdisk. This might be consistent with no “rdsk” device in the dev tree. Funny though, I can fdisk /dev/zd0, and it lists partitions. Could this […]
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Two drives fail at once? Oh yeah…
Just as I thot I was all cool for having a sixteen drive NAS, today’s opening of it and trying a new network card (did not fit) left me with bad news on the next powerup. > dmesg | grep ata | grep error: [ 23.223221] ata13.00: error: { ABRT } [ 23.234448] ata13.00: error: […]
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