On 06/11/2021 00:19, Dale wrote:
Howdy all,
They think we should be connected in a few months. Cables comes first
then they set up the control boxes etc etc. I'm going with a package
that will be about 300 times faster and only cost about $10 a month more
than my wimpy DSL. Oh crap. I need to expand my hard drive space
again. Glad I use LVM. LOL I thought I had another year to deal with
that too.
Sounds a bit like me :-) A couple of months back my existing broadband
deal expired, and they offered me a new deal - FTTP no less - for less
than I was then paying! (Admittedly ADSL was giving me 17Mb realised ...)
Only problem was a screw-up over the router - the fibre was terminated
at an RJ45 in my house, but apparently needed a dedicated wan port on
the router - you can't plug it into a standard port - so I was without
internet until they sorted out a new router for me.
Thoughts on that card? Work fine?
Do you really need 1Gbit? I know you've ordered a new card, but I would
have stuck with the onboard 1Gb, or the old 100Mb card. Or do you just
want the latest and greatest go-faster kit :-)
Likewise your disk drive. What have you ordered? CMR? If you've got an
SMR drive be VERY careful moving stuff across, it's quite likely to barf
under the load. Dunno how easy it is to do, but your best bet is to
heavily throttle the throughput to give the drive the chance to do its
housekeeping. Or google for what sort of kernel timeouts you need to
keep the system from thinking that the drive has failed.
I'd probably boot a rescue disk and just dd the partitions across. At
least then if it barfs, you haven't lost your original.
Cheers,
Wol
