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Wols Lists wrote: |
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> On 28/03/2022 13:52, Dale wrote: |
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>> I googled and was trying to find info on how long it will take to shrink |
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>> from 20TB to around 12TBs or so. It didn't lead to much except for |
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>> someone with some seriously large drives and it taking about a week to |
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>> shrink. That's a problem. If it will even take a few hours, I need a |
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>> new plan. Anyone have ideas on how long that will take? |
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> Well, formatting my 3TB and 4TB drives I was looking at hours. |
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> dm-integrity I think it was a day or so. |
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> If you're shrinking 8TB off it, depends how much data it has to move |
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> around, but I'd allow at least a day, maybe more ... |
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> Cheers, |
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> Wol |
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Time for plan B. I expect a drive purchase soon. $$$ Heck, it would |
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be faster to do backups, redo the whole thing and copy it all back. I |
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could copy it in chunks. First chunk gets me running and then copy |
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remaining stuff. Hmmmmm. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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