Regards, Marc
On Fri 24 Aug 2012 12:00:01 PM EDT, [email protected] wrote:
Send bblisa mailing list submissions to [email protected] To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to [email protected] You can reach the person managing the list at [email protected] When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of bblisa digest..." Today's Topics: 1. archiving to small disks to big disks (Brian McAllister) 2. Re: archiving to small disks to big disks (Edward Ned Harvey) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2012 19:49:25 -0400 From: "Brian McAllister" <[email protected]> Subject: [BBLISA] archiving to small disks to big disks To: [email protected] Message-ID: <[email protected]> I'm preparing to archive data from 47 120G disks onto 5 1TB disks which will then sit on a shelf. They may never be accessed again. The 120G disks are filled to varying degrees. Total data is ~4.5TB. I'm interested in making efficient use of the 1TB disks but also in maximizing integrity and usability in the future. Preserving the overall organization of the data (by original disk) is required. Filesystem is ext3. I see two choices: 1) Create 1 partition per disk and copy many original disks to it. 2) Create many partitions, each sized slightly larger than the space required for each original disk. Option 1 is easier and possibly more convenient to use. Option 2 seems potentially more robust. Thoughts ? ---- Brian McAllister Senior Software Engineer [email protected] Bates Research & Engineering Center (617) 253-9537 Middleton, MA ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2012 20:43:20 -0400 From: Edward Ned Harvey <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [BBLISA] archiving to small disks to big disks To: 'Brian McAllister' <[email protected]>, <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Brian McAllister I see two choices: 1) Create 1 partition per disk and copy many original disks to it. 2) Create many partitions, each sized slightly larger than the space required for each original disk. Option 1 is easier and possibly more convenient to use. Option 2 seems potentially more robust. Thoughts ?I don't see any advantage to option 2. In fact, even with option 1, why partition? Just mkfs each raw device directly. ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ bblisa mailing list [email protected] http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa End of bblisa Digest, Vol 105, Issue 6 **************************************
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