Well, I recently had to flatten my archive NAS (well only the OS part … wheeeh). Since I didn’t have the chance to backup the old settings I had to do everything from scratch … And this time I decided, I wasn’t doing a script but rather the proper way. I spent a while reading through the Internetz about the various settings until I stumbled upon a Frauenhofer Wiki entry. From there I ended up writing those udev-rules and the sysctl configs… ...
So, when I create (or add RAID disks) I have this handy sfdisk template (I created once when I first added the 2TB disks): 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 root:(charon.ka.heimdaheim.de) PWD:~ Wed Jul 09, 15:13:04 [0] > sfdisk -d /dev/sdj > ~/raid-disk-template.sf root:(charon.ka.heimdaheim.de) PWD:~ Wed Jul 09, 15:13:04 [0] > cat ~/raid-disk-template.sf # partition table of /dev/sdj unit: sectors /dev/sdj1 : start= 2048, size=3906793472, Id=da So, if I wanted to add more disks, I’d just have to run the following: ...
My home NAS, powered by a (used) 3ware 9550SXU-8LP, started behaving weird during the weekend. The box would boot one time, but if you’d reboot it again it wouldn’t come back up. Now, since I don’t have a monitor attached to it (I didn’t take the monitor with me when I moved), I needed to borrow one from work – I’m gonna buy a DVI-D to HDMI-adapter soon, since the 42" LCD-TV is right besides the NAS. ...