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Dale wrote: |
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> I ordered the card but I'm going to test the built in network shortly. |
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> All I have to do is unplug cable from current card and plug into built |
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> in port. Once I start that network, good to go. If it works, great. |
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> I'll have the card as a back up. If it doesn't, card it is. |
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> BTW, I found a good deal on a 8TB hard drive and bought it. The store |
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> had Unix in the name so obviously I had to buy from there. ROFL So, |
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> network card and hard drive on the way. |
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> Thanks to all for the info. When I test the built in, I'll post back |
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> how well it's working. Just for confirmation. :-D |
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> Dale |
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> :-) :-) |
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I got the card in the other day but waited until the hard drive came in |
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to install them both. I got them both in and started my process. The |
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network card installed fairly easy. I had to rebuild the kernel with |
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the drivers but it wasn't to bad. The new network card works fine but I |
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have no way to really test its speed or anything. The internet folks |
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say the fast internet should be here next spring or so but they been |
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ahead of schedule so far. Still, my network should be ready and I can |
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see if it goes beyond 100MB/sec at least. Still not sure what package |
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I'll get. The small one is 200Mb, medium is 500Mb, large is 1Gb. |
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Pretty sure the b's are lower case but may be wrong. It scales down a |
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lot. |
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I ran the self test on the hard drive overnight. It took several hours |
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to complete on a 8TB drive. Once it passed, I partitioned it, did the |
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LVM thing and tried to resize the file system. That was when puke got |
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on my keyboard. It was to big and I had to convert from 32 bit to 64 |
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bit. Once I found that out and how to do it, things worked much |
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better. As of now, this is what things look like. |
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root@fireball / # pvs |
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PV VG Fmt Attr PSize PFree |
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/dev/sda7 OS lvm2 a-- <124.46g <25.46g |
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/dev/sdb1 Home2 lvm2 a-- <5.46t 0 |
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/dev/sdc1 Home2 lvm2 a-- <7.28t 0 |
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/dev/sdd1 Home2 lvm2 a-- <7.28t 0 |
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/dev/sde1 backup lvm2 a-- 698.63g 0 |
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root@fireball / # vgs |
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VG #PV #LV #SN Attr VSize VFree |
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Home2 3 1 0 wz--n- 20.01t 0 |
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OS 1 3 0 wz--n- <124.46g <25.46g |
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backup 1 1 0 wz--n- 698.63g 0 |
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root@fireball / # df -h | grep home |
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/dev/mapper/Home2-Home2 20T 8.3T 12T 43% /home |
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root@fireball / # |
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Only bad news, I'm out of SATA ports. I really need to pick up a SATA |
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PCI* card that has 6 or 8 ports on it and is really speedy. That's on |
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my to do list for later on. Hopefully that will last a while. Next |
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thing is re-figuring my external backup setup. That 8TB external drive |
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I back up to is getting a little full. I'll have to split it up or |
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something. |
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Thanks to all for the ideas and help. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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