On Fri 21 January 2011 10:42:39 Goffredo Baroncelli wrote:
> > Thanks Goffredo but as I say, I did this and it responds with
> > "ERROR: error adding the device '/dev/sdc'"
> > .. it doesn't give a clue.
>
> In your email you wrote that before adding the device you format it.
> Anyway I don't th
On 01/21/2011 12:10 AM, Carl Cook wrote:
> On Thu 20 January 2011 14:13:22 Goffredo Baroncelli wrote:
>> To add another disk you don't have to run mkfs.btrfs. For example:
>>
>> # add the first disk
>> mkfs.btrfs /dev/sdb
>> # mount the disk
>> mount /dev/sdb /media/backups
>>
>> # add another disk
Hallo, Goffredo,
Du meintest am 20.01.11:
> To add another disk you don't have to run mkfs.btrfs. For example:
> # add the first disk
> mkfs.btrfs /dev/sdb
> # mount the disk
> mount /dev/sdb /media/backups
> # add another disk to the first one
> btrfs device add /dev/sdc /media/backup
> Note1
Hallo, Goffredo,
Du meintest am 20.01.11:
> To add another disk you don't have to run mkfs.btrfs. For example:
> # add the first disk
> mkfs.btrfs /dev/sdb
> # mount the disk
> mount /dev/sdb /media/backups
> # add another disk to the first one
> btrfs device add /dev/sdc /media/backup
> Note1
On Friday, January 21, 2011 11:16:49 cac...@quantum-sci.com wrote:
> On Thu 20 January 2011 22:55:54 Hubert Kario wrote:
> > You still have a btrfs on /dev/sdc, do a
> > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdc bs=8192
> > (overkill, but I don't remember which blocks have to be zeroed to destroy
> > btrfs super
On Thu 20 January 2011 22:55:54 Hubert Kario wrote:
> You still have a btrfs on /dev/sdc, do a
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdc bs=8192
> (overkill, but I don't remember which blocks have to be zeroed to destroy
> btrfs superblock)
I gave up and started over. Maybe it should be clarified in the wi
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 2:00 PM, Helmut Hullen wrote:
>
> Hallo, Carl,
>
> Du meintest am 20.01.11:
>
> >> If you shutdown the system, at the reboot you should "scan" all the
> >> device in order to find the btrfs ones
> >>
> >> # find the btrfs device
> >> btrfs device scan
>
> > This must be don
Hallo, Carl,
Du meintest am 20.01.11:
>> If you shutdown the system, at the reboot you should "scan" all the
>> device in order to find the btrfs ones
>>
>> # find the btrfs device
>> btrfs device scan
> This must be done at every boot?
Yes - this advice is added in the Wiki (?).
> If so, wher
Hallo, Goffredo,
Du meintest am 20.01.11:
> To add another disk you don't have to run mkfs.btrfs. For example:
> # add the first disk
> mkfs.btrfs /dev/sdb
> # mount the disk
> mount /dev/sdb /media/backups
> # add another disk to the first one
> btrfs device add /dev/sdc /media/backup
On Friday 21 of January 2011 00:10:54 Carl Cook wrote:
> On Thu 20 January 2011 14:13:22 Goffredo Baroncelli wrote:
> > To add another disk you don't have to run mkfs.btrfs. For example:
> >
> > # add the first disk
> > mkfs.btrfs /dev/sdb
> > # mount the disk
> > mount /dev/sdb /media/backups
> >
On Thu 20 January 2011 14:13:22 Goffredo Baroncelli wrote:
> To add another disk you don't have to run mkfs.btrfs. For example:
>
> # add the first disk
> mkfs.btrfs /dev/sdb
> # mount the disk
> mount /dev/sdb /media/backups
>
> # add another disk to the first one
> btrfs device add /dev/sdc /me
I must have done something wrong because for the past week or so, almost none
of my questions have been answered here. I'm pretty much in trouble now
because I have -no- backups, as I cannot get my backup server running, as I've
put all my eggs in the btrfs basket. Am I asking things wrong, o
On 01/20/2011 10:18 PM, Carl Cook wrote:
>
> Well I've just tried to add a disk to another, but it fails. I
> created the first (starting with no traditional partitions) with: #
> mkfs.btrfs /dev/sdb
>
> Then I mounted it to /media/backups and put lots of files on it. I
> shut down the system,
Well I've just tried to add a disk to another, but it fails. I created the
first (starting with no traditional partitions) with:
# mkfs.btrfs /dev/sdb
Then I mounted it to /media/backups and put lots of files on it. I shut down
the system, added another disk. Set it up with:
# mkfs.btrfs /de
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