Re: [Dorset] Tues evening

[Andrew via dorset]

On 07/05/2024 21:23, Peter Merchant wrote:
 Interesting about how Andrew combined two hard disks into one virtual 
one. What program did you use to search for duplicates in that lot. 


The answer you probably want is fslint.

The real answer is I haven't finished downloading all the files yet so 
haven't done it yet, also I want to find duplicates in that 3 TB of 
files, plus another location on another computer, so I might write a 
little program to do that by collecting filenames, checksums, file 
sizes, etc. in each location and then processing the results afterwards.


For anyone who wasn't there, I wanted about 3 TB of space to download 
some files to check for duplicates. I had 1 TB and 2 TB hard disks and 
used btrfs to combine them. I created an array using 'raid0' mode, which 
was apparently the wrong thing to do. Once it reached 2 TB the array got 
mounted read-only and said it had no more free space, even though until 
then it had 1 TB free. I had to rebalance it and convert from 'raid0' to 
'single', which it did with the filesystem mounted, and then I got a 
full 3 TB of usable (and very much not redundant) space.


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Re: [Dorset] Next Meeting - One Week Tonight

[Andrew via dorset]

On 27/02/2024 10:30, Ralph Corderoy wrote:

Peter emailed the list saying it looked like last month's meeting didn't
happen.  Andrew told me privately that he turned up, no one else did, so
he left.  When I popped in later, Clive, Hamish, and Hugh were present.


Yes, I was there. I was told that I had to wait. After a few minutes I 
re-loaded the page and was told the same thing. I was there from around 
20:00 until after Peter's e-mail as I saw that come in while I was 
waiting. It didn't say if there was anyone else there or not, or give 
any useful information at all. I think was there for 20 minutes and 
nothing happened.


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