{"id":808,"date":"2007-03-27T15:55:59","date_gmt":"2007-03-27T05:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/27\/jbod-can-bite-you-and-ubuntu-704\/"},"modified":"2007-03-27T17:15:12","modified_gmt":"2007-03-27T07:15:12","slug":"jbod-can-bite-you-and-ubuntu-704","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/27\/jbod-can-bite-you-and-ubuntu-704\/","title":{"rendered":"JBOD can bite you… (and Ubuntu 7.04)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Okay, so one of the disks in a JBOD (well… single LVM) has been on the way out (hopefully can recover some stuff off it… there’s nothing completely important… but still).<\/p>\n

I’ve now learnt and desktop has three new 320GB drives in a RAID5.<\/p>\n

Currently installing Ubuntu 7.04 on it. I do have to say that the alternate install disk (which uses debian-installer) has a REALLY nice RAID and LVM setup now. If only it also let you pass parameters to mkfs it would be ideal.<\/p>\n

Update: <\/strong>It got the bootloader horribly wrong though and I’ve gotten to piss-fart around trying to get LILO to install and boot. Current result? Blinking cursor in top left of screen. Fantastic… fucking fantastic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Okay, so one of the disks in a JBOD (well… single LVM) has been on the way out (hopefully can recover some stuff off it… there’s nothing completely important… but still). I’ve now learnt and desktop has three new 320GB … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-the-universe-and-everything","category-mysql"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5a6n8-d2","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":819,"url":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/16\/working-desktop-with-ubuntu-704-beta\/","url_meta":{"origin":808,"position":0},"title":"Working desktop (with Ubuntu 7.04 beta)","author":"Stewart Smith","date":"2007-04-16","format":false,"excerpt":"yay - got an install of Ubuntu 7.04 on my RAID5 with LVM with RAID1 \/boot. Not only that, it's booted - twice. Special. Even plugged in my USB RAID1 array and managed to get it to mount... and am now importing photos into the f-spot store on it. Yay.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "General"","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":811,"url":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/29\/words-cannot-describe-the-pain\/","url_meta":{"origin":808,"position":1},"title":"words cannot describe the pain","author":"Stewart Smith","date":"2007-03-29","format":false,"excerpt":"that is the general experince of debian\/ubuntu, raid and LVM setups for \/ and \/boot and getting a working bootloader out of the installer.... grr... how come this NEVER works.... update: well, i now have a booting system... 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