Re: HELP! Re: How to fix I/O errors? (SOLVED)

On Sun, Feb 12, 2017 at 09:36:16PM -0500, Bob Weber wrote: > I use a program called ossec. It watches logs of all my linux boxes so I get > email messages about disk problems. I also do periodic self tests on all my > drives controlled by smartd from the smartmontools package. I also use a >

Re: HELP! Re: How to fix I/O errors? (SOLVED)

On 02/12/2017 06:36 PM, Bob Weber wrote: After writing this I wonder if I am over doing this. I just don't want to loose data from a failing drive. I lived through 3.5 inch floppies which seemed to always fail. And tape drives that were painfully slow. Not to mention back in the mid 70s

Re: HELP! Re: How to fix I/O errors? (SOLVED)

On 02/12/2017 01:59 PM, Marc Shapiro wrote: > On 02/12/2017 08:30 AM, Marc Auslander wrote: >> I do not use LVM over raid 1. I think it can be made to work, >> although IIRC booting from an LVM over RAID partion has caused issues. > my boot partitions are separate. They are not under LVM. >> LVM

Re: HELP! Re: How to fix I/O errors? (SOLVED)

Marc Shapiro writes: > BTW, what is your third partition, and why would you not separate it > now if starting from scratch? My third partition is for backups which I make to protect against software or operator error. At one point it was on a separate disk since disks were

Re: HELP! Re: How to fix I/O errors? (SOLVED)

On 02/12/2017 08:30 AM, Marc Auslander wrote: I do not use LVM over raid 1. I think it can be made to work, although IIRC booting from an LVM over RAID partion has caused issues. my boot partitions are separate. They are not under LVM. LVM is useful when space requirements are changing over

Re: HELP! Re: How to fix I/O errors? (SOLVED)

Marc Shapiro writes: > the past couple of weeks. AIUI you can use LVM over raid. Is there > any actual advantage to this? I was trying to determine the > advantages of using straight raid, straight LVM, or LVM over raid. If > I decide, later, to use raid, how dificult is

Re: HELP! Re: How to fix I/O errors? (SOLVED)

I use raid 1 also for the redundancy it provides. If I need a backup I just connect a disk, grow each array and add it to the array (I have 3 arrays for /, /home and swap). It syncs up in a couple hours (depending on size of the array). If you have grub install itself on the added disk you have

Re: HELP! Re: How to fix I/O errors? (SOLVED)

On 02/11/2017 05:22 PM, Marc Auslander wrote: You didn't ask for advice so take it or ignore it. IMHO, in this day and age, there is no reason not to run raid 1. Two disks, identially partitioned, each parition set up as a raid 1 partition with two copies. When a disk dies, you remove it from

Re: HELP! Re: How to fix I/O errors? (SOLVED)

Marc Auslander composed on 2017-02-11 20:22 (UTC-0500): IMHO, in this day and age, there is no reason not to run raid 1. Are you sure? Laptops have been outselling desktops for years. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living

Re: HELP! Re: How to fix I/O errors? (SOLVED)

You didn't ask for advice so take it or ignore it. IMHO, in this day and age, there is no reason not to run raid 1. Two disks, identially partitioned, each parition set up as a raid 1 partition with two copies. When a disk dies, you remove it from all the raid partitions, pop in a new disk,

Re: HELP! Re: How to fix I/O errors? (SOLVED)

On 02/10/17 23:39, Marc Shapiro wrote: On 02/08/2017 05:32 PM, David Christensen wrote: On 02/08/17 15:59, Marc Shapiro wrote: So how do I lay down a low level format on [the new 1 TB] drive? I would use the SeaTools bootable CD to fill the drive with zeroes: On 02/03/17 23:13, David

Re: HELP! Re: How to fix I/O errors? (SOLVED)

On 02/08/2017 05:32 PM, David Christensen wrote: On 02/08/17 15:59, Marc Shapiro wrote: So how do I lay down a low level format on [the new 1 TB] drive? I would use the SeaTools bootable CD to fill the drive with zeroes: On 02/03/17 23:13, David Christensen wrote: > Sometimes you get lucky