RE: [gentoo-user] RE: [gentoo-user] Encrypted hard drives on LVM and urgent power shutdowns.

2022-09-13 Thread Laurence Perkins
>> If you want an arbitrarily large battery bank, just get a decent power >> inverter heavy enough to run your load and a battery float charger that can >> push enough amps to keep up, then put as big a stack of batteries as you >> like between the two. The nicer inverters will even warn you

Re: [gentoo-user] RE: [gentoo-user] Encrypted hard drives on LVM and urgent power shutdowns.

2022-09-13 Thread Michael
On Tuesday, 13 September 2022 06:47:21 BST Thomas Mueller wrote: > from Laurence Perkins: > > Some of the higher-end UPS models do have diagnostic modes for simulating > > various events to make sure the connected systems behave as desired. A > > very few of the consumer-grade ones do as well.

[gentoo-user] RE: [gentoo-user] Encrypted hard drives on LVM and urgent power shutdowns.

2022-09-12 Thread Thomas Mueller
from Laurence Perkins: > Some of the higher-end UPS models do have diagnostic modes for simulating > various events to make sure the connected systems behave as desired. A very > few of the consumer-grade ones do as well. But how to do it is model > specific, > so you'll have to dig up the

Re: [gentoo-user] Encrypted hard drives on LVM and urgent power shutdowns.

2022-09-12 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sun, Sep 11, 2022 at 9:56 PM Dale wrote: > > I suspect this would happen on its own but I'd like to make sure. I'd > hate to mess up the file system badly on any of my drives or in a worst > case scenario, brick a hard drive with some 1 in a million chance problem. > I just wanted to comment

RE: [gentoo-user] Encrypted hard drives on LVM and urgent power shutdowns.

2022-09-12 Thread Laurence Perkins
>-Original Message- >From: Dale >Sent: Sunday, September 11, 2022 10:58 PM >To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org >Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Encrypted hard drives on LVM and urgent power >shutdowns. > >William Kenworthy wrote: >> If your using nut, i

Re: [gentoo-user] Encrypted hard drives on LVM and urgent power shutdowns.

2022-09-12 Thread Michael
On Monday, 12 September 2022 06:57:58 BST Dale wrote: > William Kenworthy wrote: > > If your using nut, it has to be setup - and should be regularly tested > > to make sure it works. > > > > BillK > > I think upsmon is part of nut. I keep forgetting that since the service > is ups something.

Re: [gentoo-user] Encrypted hard drives on LVM and urgent power shutdowns.

2022-09-11 Thread Dale
tastytea wrote: > On 2022-09-11 20:56-0500 Dale wrote: > >> Howdy, >> >> Last night we had some bad weather where I live and we ended up with >> some power problems.  Ironically they went out a few hours after the >> storm was gone.  Anyway.  I had all sorts of encrypted drives open. >> My usual

Re: [gentoo-user] Encrypted hard drives on LVM and urgent power shutdowns.

2022-09-11 Thread Dale
William Kenworthy wrote: > If your using nut, it has to be setup - and should be regularly tested > to make sure it works. > > BillK I think upsmon is part of nut.  I keep forgetting that since the service is ups something.  Thing is, I've never quite figured out how to test it without

Re: [gentoo-user] Encrypted hard drives on LVM and urgent power shutdowns.

2022-09-11 Thread William Kenworthy
If your using nut, it has to be setup - and should be regularly tested to make sure it works. BillK ' On 12/9/22 09:56, Dale wrote: Howdy, Last night we had some bad weather where I live and we ended up with some power problems.  Ironically they went out a few hours after the storm was

Re: [gentoo-user] Encrypted hard drives on LVM and urgent power shutdowns.

2022-09-11 Thread tastytea
On 2022-09-11 20:56-0500 Dale wrote: > Howdy, > > Last night we had some bad weather where I live and we ended up with > some power problems.  Ironically they went out a few hours after the > storm was gone.  Anyway.  I had all sorts of encrypted drives open. > My usual drives inside my puter

[gentoo-user] Encrypted hard drives on LVM and urgent power shutdowns.

2022-09-11 Thread Dale
Howdy, Last night we had some bad weather where I live and we ended up with some power problems.  Ironically they went out a few hours after the storm was gone.  Anyway.  I had all sorts of encrypted drives open.  My usual drives inside my puter plus the large 14TB external backup drive that is