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| From: | Wols Lists <antlists@××××××××××××.uk> | ||
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| To: | gentoo-user@l.g.o | ||
| Subject: | Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] SMR drives (WAS: cryptsetup close and device in use when it is not) | ||
| Date: | Sat, 31 Jul 2021 03:53:07 | ||
| Message-Id: | 6104C897.5010505@youngman.org.uk | ||
| In Reply to: | Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] SMR drives (WAS: cryptsetup close and device in use when it is not) by William Kenworthy |
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| 1 | On 31/07/21 04:14, William Kenworthy wrote: |
| 2 | > (seagate lists it as a 5Tb drive managed SMR) |
| 3 | > |
| 4 | > It was sold as a USB3 4Tb desktop expansion drive, fdisk -l shows "Disk |
| 5 | > /dev/sde: 3.64 TiB, 4000787029504 bytes, 7814037167 sectors" and Seagate |
| 6 | > is calling it 5Tb - marketing! |
| 7 | |
| 8 | Note that it's now official, TB is decimal and TiB is binary, so a 4TB |
| 9 | drive being 3.64TiB makes sense. TB is 10e9, while TiB is 2e30. |
| 10 | |
| 11 | btw, you're scrubbing over USB? Are you running a raid over USB? Bad |
| 12 | things are likely to happen ... |
| 13 | |
| 14 | Cheers, |
| 15 | Wol |
| Subject | Author |
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| Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] SMR drives (WAS: cryptsetup close and device in use when it is not) | William Kenworthy <billk@×××××××××.au> |
| Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] SMR drives (WAS: cryptsetup close and device in use when it is not) | Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> |