On 3/9/25 15:06, Lou Hafer wrote:
Gene is back again, as I finally have all the hdwe in one kit. Diabetes
is slowing me down, as is the years, up to 90 now. Took me too long,
but I now have a 6 bay drive cage, with a bananapi-m5 on the bottom tray
I've printed, another 2 trays with 2 ea 4T SPCC drives on those 2 trays,
another tray with one more of these 4T drives in the bottom of tray 3,
and a 250G toshiba lappy drive of spinning rust as the 6th, holding disk
drive. Topped with a 5Vx20A PSU, and an 8 port usb-3.2 hub glued to the
side of the cage, powered by that 20A supply, big PSU because the SPCC
drives use 4 amps to write, burning up the 2amp hub supply.
I have just plugged it in and booted it to armbian nobel. dmesg reports
only one drive having a partition, sde1, the rest are as shipped.
I want to set this up as an 8T raid using the 5th drive as the parity
track, and the 250G toshiba as holding disk. What tools do I install,
and how do I configure it?
Or at 4 amps per drive writing , is that beyond my power budget?
Thanks for any guidance.
>Gene,
Never actually done this, but it looks to me like you'd need to do
the following (tailor to your specifics)
vgchange --resizeable <vgname>
vgextend < ... options ... > <vgname> <pvname> <pvname> ...
Or just blow away the volume group and recreate it
vgcreate < ... options ... > <vgname> <pvname> <pvname> ...
No experience to comment on zfs vs. ext4.
Lou
Thanks for any guidance.
Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET.
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