Re: [gentoo-user] Want to seriously test a NEW hard drive

[Dale]

Dale wrote:
> Hmmm, then I guess I didn't do something right the first time I tried
> cgdisk then. It said it wasn't aligned right but I couldn't figure out
> how to get it to do it. Then I used Gparted and it seemed to do it
> without me telling it anything. The only difference I saw was the
> little 1Mb partition. Well, I plan to dd the thing and start over with
> LVM and all so I'll see what it does next time. Maybe I just didn't do
> something right. Since I have nothing windoze on here, do I really
> need to worry about DOS booting? All I have is Gentoo here. Dale :-) :-)

OK.  I tested this drive pretty well and I think it is going to be OK. 
I ran the Smart test, copied over 800Gbs of data over, deleted it then
copied it over again.  After that I ran dd to put it back like new.  I
only did the first 100Gbs or so, not the whole thing.  I then ran the
Smart test again and it reported no problems.  Then I set up LVM and
such which leads me to one more question. 

Instead of making a partition, I just told LVM to use the whole disk. 
Just a bit ago, I realized that means it may not be doing this alignment
thing since I did it this way.  So, is it OK to leave it as is or should
I go back and create a partition and tell LVM to use that? 

When I was copying the stuff over, I used dstat to monitor the speed. 
It was hitting right at 360Mbs a second at its peak when *writing*
data.  I'm only 3Gbs/sec here.  Seems pretty fast to me. 

OK to leave it like it is or go back and create a partition? 

Thoughts?

Dale

:-)  :-) 

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