Category: NZTekonverse -> Storage
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MS Smoke and Mirrors over Live Email storage
Microsoft deliberately won’t tell you what the size limit of your Live mailbox is. They sort of imply it’s unlimited. This is a smoke and mirrors game in which they can shift the goalposts any time they like and is similar to how they very quietly announced they were chopping OneDrive storage from 15 GB…
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Linux RAID-1 [9]: Removing an array
The last step having set up a new array is to remove the old one from the computer. This is relatively straightforward. Firstly the array has to be unmounted, which is a simple umount command with the path, in this case umount /oldhome. The next thing is to run a mdadm command to remove the…
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Linux RAID-1 [8]: Setting up the replacement array
As I mentioned last time I have bought the 2 TB disks so that I can have a RAID-1 array in the main computer that is big enough to hold all of my stuff, meaning the second computer (and by extension, its screens and desk) will be effectively redundant. So here I am essentially repeating…
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Linux RAID-1 [7]: Recovery and fault-finding
/dev/md0: Version : 1.2 Creation Time : Sat Jul 2 04:03:31 2016 Raid Level : raid1 Array Size : 976631360 (931.39 GiB 1000.07 GB) Used Dev Size : 976631360 (931.39 GiB 1000.07 GB) Raid Devices : 2 Total Devices : 1 Persistence : Superblock is persistent Update Time…
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Linux RAID-1 [6]: Reinstalling with RAID
Well today I had to reinstall Mint on one of my computers, both of which have RAID-1 arrays. This time I installed Mint 18 onto the DB75EN. And of course I wanted to pick up my existing RAID array without having to build it from scratch. Initially I was going to build a test system…