Migrate to 3TB disk

2012-09-14 Thread Hendrik Boom
I have two new 3TB disks. I'm adding them to an existing Debian (stable/ squeeze AMD64) system. I plan to partition them, and make one large partition on each one to serve as a carrier for a RAID-1. I plan to subdivide that RAID using LVM. There will also be a few small partitions outside

Re: Migrate to 3TB disk

2012-09-14 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 8:20 AM, Hendrik Boom hend...@topoi.pooq.com wrote: I have two new 3TB disks. I'm adding them to an existing Debian (stable/ squeeze AMD64) system. ... I have several questions: (1) Is there up-to-date documentation on these matters. I'd love to RTFM if only I could

Re: Migrate to 3TB disk

2012-09-14 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 14 sep 12, 15:20:26, Hendrik Boom wrote: Now currently my machine has two small (750G) disks that it stores the bulk of its files on, and one tiny (250G) IDE disk that it boots from. Tiny? That's almost as big as my entire storage (2 x 160 GiB). (1c) file and partition size limits

Re: Migrate to 3TB disk

2012-09-14 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Fri, 14 Sep 2012 19:55:58 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Vi, 14 sep 12, 15:20:26, Hendrik Boom wrote: Now currently my machine has two small (750G) disks that it stores the bulk of its files on, and one tiny (250G) IDE disk that it boots from. Tiny? That's almost as big as my entire

Re: Migrate to 3TB disk

2012-09-14 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Fri, 14 Sep 2012 09:22:51 -0700, Kelly Clowers wrote: (1d) EFI Only applies with a pretty new motherboard that supports it. I was under the impression that an old BIOS (which is what I probably have) doesn't know how to understand how to understand the partition table that comes with

Re: Migrate to 3TB disk

2012-09-14 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 14 sep 12, 17:22:36, Hendrik Boom wrote: Which probably means building a new file system and copying all the files. Even if it's possible to upgrade in place, it would probably mean preserving the existing low-level structure, like 512-byte sectors instead of 4K sectors. There

Re: Migrate to 3TB disk

2012-09-14 Thread Mark Allums
On 9/14/2012 3:22 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Vi, 14 sep 12, 17:22:36, Hendrik Boom wrote: Which probably means building a new file system and copying all the files. Even if it's possible to upgrade in place, it would probably mean preserving the existing low-level structure, like 512-byte