Re: [gentoo-user] Unable to expand ext4 partition

2022-02-05 Thread Mark Knecht
If it's a WD Red Plus on the label then it's CMR and good. If it's WD Red without the "Plus" then it's SMR and WD has said don't use them for this purpose. It's not impossible to run the WD Red in a RAID, but they tend to fail when resilvering. If it resilvers correctly then it will probably be OK

Re: [gentoo-user] Unable to expand ext4 partition

2022-02-05 Thread Wol
On 05/02/2022 22:16, Julien Roy wrote: I didn't - I typically use the Gentoo and Arch wiki when I need information, but will keep that in mind. I noticed, on that page, that there's a big bold warning about using post-2019 WD Red drives. Sadly, that's exactly what I am doing, my array is

Re: [gentoo-user] Unable to expand ext4 partition

2022-02-05 Thread Wols Lists
On 05/02/2022 19:37, Julien Roy wrote: At this point, I am considering transfering all my data to another volume, and re-creating the RAID using mdadm. You know about the raid wiki https://raid.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Linux_Raid ? (Edited by yours truly ...) Cheers, Wol

Re: [gentoo-user] Unable to expand ext4 partition

2022-02-05 Thread Wol
On 05/02/2022 17:43, Julien Roy wrote: Hello, I've been running an LVM RAID 5 on my home lab for a while, and recently it's been getting awfully close to 100% full, so I decided to buy a new drive to add to it, however, growing an LVM RAID is more complicated than I thought! I found very few

Re: [gentoo-user] Removing or renaming old /boot/grub directory warning

2022-02-05 Thread Dale
Michael wrote: > On Saturday, 5 February 2022 09:36:44 GMT Dale wrote: > >> It failed with a missing normal.mod file. That file is in the old grub >> directory. Once I renamed the directory back to what grub expected, the >> system loaded grub fine. > Ahh! The normal.mod command: > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Removing or renaming old /boot/grub directory warning

2022-02-05 Thread Wols Lists
On 05/02/2022 11:21, Michael wrote: On Saturday, 5 February 2022 09:36:44 GMT Dale wrote: It failed with a missing normal.mod file. That file is in the old grub directory. Once I renamed the directory back to what grub expected, the system loaded grub fine. Ahh! The normal.mod command:

Re: [gentoo-user] Removing or renaming old /boot/grub directory warning

2022-02-05 Thread Michael
On Saturday, 5 February 2022 09:36:44 GMT Dale wrote: > It failed with a missing normal.mod file. That file is in the old grub > directory. Once I renamed the directory back to what grub expected, the > system loaded grub fine. Ahh! The normal.mod command:

Re: [gentoo-user] Removing or renaming old /boot/grub directory warning

2022-02-05 Thread Dale
Michael wrote: > On Saturday, 5 February 2022 08:37:48 GMT Dale wrote: >> Arve Barsnes wrote: >>> On Sat, 5 Feb 2022 at 07:37, Dale wrote: Should I reinstall grub after removing the old directory so it puts things where it needs to be or what? Or does a new install have that old

Re: [gentoo-user] Removing or renaming old /boot/grub directory warning

2022-02-05 Thread Michael
On Saturday, 5 February 2022 08:37:48 GMT Dale wrote: > Arve Barsnes wrote: > > On Sat, 5 Feb 2022 at 07:37, Dale wrote: > >> Should I reinstall grub after removing the old directory so it puts > >> things where it needs to be or what? Or does a new install have that > >> old directory too?

Re: [gentoo-user] Manually updating gentoo-sources

2022-02-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 5 Feb 2022 09:20:41 +0100, Arve Barsnes wrote: > > You're using ~amd64 sources, which means they update frequently. I > > found this annoying so I only use the stable sources, even on ~amd64 > > systems to keep updates to a reasonable level while ensuring I don't > > miss important

Re: [gentoo-user] Removing or renaming old /boot/grub directory warning

2022-02-05 Thread Dale
Arve Barsnes wrote: > On Sat, 5 Feb 2022 at 07:37, Dale wrote: >> Should I reinstall grub after removing the old directory so it puts >> things where it needs to be or what? Or does a new install have that >> old directory too? While at it, is there something that can give me >> better options

Re: [gentoo-user] Manually updating gentoo-sources

2022-02-05 Thread Arve Barsnes
On Sat, 5 Feb 2022 at 08:57, Neil Bothwick wrote: > You're using ~amd64 sources, which means they update frequently. I found > this annoying so I only use the stable sources, even on ~amd64 systems to > keep updates to a reasonable level while ensuring I don't miss important > updates. I added