On 1/14/24 18:57, Felix Miata wrote:
gene heskett composed on 2024-01-14 18:39 (UTC-0500):
Felix Miata wrote:
AFAIK, nothing I wrote would be expected to have any relationship to transfer
rates. My point was entirely about suitability of /mnt/ for fstab entries.
And my point is that for a one time copy, its was handy. I didn't have
to mkdir a mount point for it.
/mnt/ is intended for one-time copies, just the ticket for that particular
exercise.
I don't recall ever mounting something to /mnt, always to a subdir in mount.
But, fstab entries for one-time mounting is not normal, and neither are
subdirectories in /mnt/ unless a filesystem is temporarily mounted there. It's
allowed, but not particularly a product of wisdom, particularly if you forget to
undo it before rebooting without the configured filesystem available, or an
unexpected reboot occurs first. Remember your short-term memory quality?
Absolutely plus its the end of a long day for me, so the next copy try
will be tomorrow. With an extra argument to rsync, --bwlimit=5m. That
should limit the write to 5megs a second which should give the SSD time
to process its cache.
This whole thing has just one objective, making a copy of the raid10
/home onto a single drive that I could us to edit the raid out of fstab,
substituting the single drive copy. This raid has 2 of its 4 drives
complaining to smartctl. Get my data off it, by whatever means works.--
Evolution as taught in public schools is, like religion,
based on faith, not based on science.
Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks!
Felix Miata
Thanks Felix.
Cheers, Gene Heskett.
--
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940)
If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
- Louis D. Brandeis
