Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive error from SMART

[Dale]

Michael wrote:
> On Saturday, 16 April 2022 15:59:25 BST Dale wrote:
>> Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
>>> Am Fri, Apr 15, 2022 at 10:49:21AM -0500 schrieb Dale:
>>>> Howdy,
>>>>
>>>> I got the drive and pvmove is doing its thing.  I would like to unplug
>>>> one of the drives and physically move them around without shutting down
>>>> my system.  Is there a way to tell LVM to disable the drives while I'm
>>>> doing this and restart them when done?
>>> Be aware that SATA hot-plugging must be enabled in the BIOS for each
>>> individual SATA port (at least that’s the case on my board). I’m not sure
>>> what a difference it actually makes, though.
>> I enabled that the first time I cut the system on after building it.  I
>> couldn't think of any reason not to have it enabled really.  It would be
>> like making USB require rebooting before plugging/unplugging something.
>> Certainly better than the old IDE days.
>>
>> I have googled and can not find a way to reset udev and it naming
>> drives.  I may have to rework some things since the drive kept the sdk
>> instead of switching to sdd when I made the physical change.  Thing is,
>> I suspect it will when I reboot the next time.  It also triggered
>> messages from SMART too.  It got upset that it couldn't find sdd anymore.
>>
>> Dale
>>
>> :-)  :-)
> Have a look at this post.  It explains why you could end up with a race
> condition if you set up udev rules to name disks in different order than what
> the kernel assigns:
>
> https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-hardware-18/udev-persistent-disk-name-4175450519/#post4893847

I think I've read about that before.  Gonna read it in a minute.  What
I'd like is a way to reset it back to like it would be with a fresh
install for example.  I figure there is a config file somewhere that
stores this sort of thing but no clue where it is tho. 

Oh well.  Maybe one day.  ;-)

Dale

:-)  :-)