{"id":5748,"date":"2014-06-09T08:30:05","date_gmt":"2014-06-09T12:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/?p=5748"},"modified":"2014-06-09T08:33:57","modified_gmt":"2014-06-09T12:33:57","slug":"the-drive-is-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/2014\/06\/the-drive-is-done\/","title":{"rendered":"The Drive is done"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/seagate-green-top.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/seagate-green-top-299x278.jpg\" alt=\"seagate-green-top\" width=\"299\" height=\"278\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5735\" srcset=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/seagate-green-top-299x278.jpg 299w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/seagate-green-top-150x139.jpg 150w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/seagate-green-top.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 299px) 100vw, 299px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe system was shut down, the new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.ca\/gp\/product\/B004YNQKRG\/ref=oh_details_o00_s01_i01?ie=UTF8&#038;psc=1\" target=\"_blank\">WD Green 3TB drive<\/a> (about $130 from amazon.ca)  was installed and the system restarted.<\/p>\n<p>Linux fdisk does not partition greater than 2TB so a new method had to be used to get this disk up and running.<\/p>\n<p>try this instead of fdisk<br \/>\nparted \/dev\/sdb<br \/>\nmklabel gpt<br \/>\nmkpart 1 -1<br \/>\nmkfs.ext4 \/dev\/sdb1<br \/>\ndone! A partitioned and formatted 2.7TB partition.<\/p>\n<p>This was mounted and the process to copy all of the data from the two 1TB drives was started using rsync -auvxz \/source \/destination<br \/>\nIt looks like it was moving about 40GB\/hour and it took around 30 hours to completed the 1.2TB of data transfer.<br \/>\nSince new data was being added from various systems over this 30 hour time  period, the rsync process was run again, this time in less than 5 minutes, to bring the 3TB drive up to date.<\/p>\n<p>The drives were dismounted, rearranged in \/etc\/fstab and remounted again allowing the 3TB drive to be the primary data drive and the two 1TB drives to be partners in data backup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The system was shut down, the new WD Green 3TB drive (about $130 from amazon.ca) was installed and the system restarted. Linux fdisk does not partition greater than 2TB so a new method had to be used to get this disk up and running. try this instead of fdisk parted \/dev\/sdb mklabel gpt mkpart 1 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}