Re: [CentOS] "Enterprise Class Hard Drive" - Scam Warning

2013-10-02 Thread aurfalien
On Oct 2, 2013, at 11:21 AM, Steve Brooks wrote: >> On Wed, Oct 02, 2013 at 05:24:54PM +0100, Steve Brooks wrote: >> >>> 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 098 097 000Old_age - 2106 >>> 12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000Old_age - 80 >> >>> replaced with

Re: [CentOS] "Enterprise Class Hard Drive" - Scam Warning

2013-10-02 Thread Steve Brooks
> On Wed, Oct 02, 2013 at 05:24:54PM +0100, Steve Brooks wrote: > >>9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 098 097 000Old_age - 2106 >> 12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000Old_age - 80 > >> replaced with new drives. Wow... I was also told by the online retaile

Re: [CentOS] Historical Data related to CPU,IO and Memory

2013-10-02 Thread Les Mikesell
On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 11:58 AM, John R Pierce wrote: >> > but, if you really want historical data going back months, I do think > I'd look into something like cactii, which is built on RRDtool, which > replaced the legacy mrtg.This will maintain a set of web pages with > hourly/daily/weekly/m

Re: [CentOS] installing centos with oos ntfs format drives

2013-10-02 Thread John R Pierce
On 10/2/2013 9:28 AM, SilverTip257 wrote: > It's common for stationary storage to be mounted under /mnt and temporary > storage (think USB thumb drive) to be mounted under /media. frankly, I usually create top level directories for permanent mounts. maybe /ntfs (under which you might have a /nt

Re: [CentOS] Historical Data related to CPU,IO and Memory

2013-10-02 Thread John R Pierce
On 10/1/2013 7:35 PM, Mark Eggers wrote: > You could take a look at sysstat and the graph with whatever tool you > wish. I use kSar to plot. > > By default, the sysstat output is kept for a week, but you could write > scripts to keep the information for as long as you wished. > > sysstat rpm on Cen

Re: [CentOS] "Enterprise Class Hard Drive" - Scam Warning

2013-10-02 Thread Billy Crook
In fact it is prudent to completely test each drive before use. I recommend scripting several rounds of dd, badblocks, all smart tests, and some hdparm interaction. On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 11:24 AM, Steve Brooks wrote: > > Hi All, > > I know many of us here manage RAID on our Centos based servers

Re: [CentOS] installing centos with oos ntfs format drives

2013-10-02 Thread SilverTip257
On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 11:00 PM, g wrote: > > greetings. > > i am going to run a fresh install of centos 6.4 and want to mount 3 > partitions of oos that are formatted as ntfs in an oem installed box. > > if during install, i set up partitions /dev/sda1, /dev/sda2, and > /dev/sdb1 as ntfs, will i

Re: [CentOS] "Enterprise Class Hard Drive" - Scam Warning

2013-10-02 Thread Stephen Harris
On Wed, Oct 02, 2013 at 05:24:54PM +0100, Steve Brooks wrote: >9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 098 097 000Old_age - 2106 > 12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000Old_age - 80 > replaced with new drives. Wow... I was also told by the online retailer > th

[CentOS] "Enterprise Class Hard Drive" - Scam Warning

2013-10-02 Thread Steve Brooks
Hi All, I know many of us here manage RAID on our Centos based servers so this may be of interest to us all. I ordered three new "Enterprise hard drives" this month from a well known UK online retailer. The drives arrived as new in their anti-static packaging. Before using one of the drives i

Re: [CentOS] Historical Data related to CPU,IO and Memory

2013-10-02 Thread Les Mikesell
On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 7:35 AM, SilverTip257 wrote: >>> >> It might be overkill for a single box, but tools like OpenNMS will >> collect this info from any number of targets via snmp and let you >> graph the history up to a year back. >> > > And there are other trend graphing applications like Cac

Re: [CentOS] Historical Data related to CPU,IO and Memory

2013-10-02 Thread John Doe
From: Kaushal Shriyan > Are there any utilities or tools to look at historical data of Memory, CPU > Utilization or IO activity on CentOS 6.4 or 5.9 Version? For example the > how much the memory was consumed for the period of last six months. The most lightweight, if you do not mind scripting a

Re: [CentOS] Partitionable Raid

2013-10-02 Thread Arun Khan
On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 5:10 PM, Ireneusz Piasecki wrote: > W dniu 2013-10-02 13:03, Arun Khan pisze: >> On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 4:29 PM, Arun Khan wrote: >> >>> June/2013 time frame and posted my woes in this mailing list. >> >> oops, s/b June/2012. > Yes, June. But, if i good remember, this was a

Re: [CentOS] Historical Data related to CPU,IO and Memory

2013-10-02 Thread SilverTip257
On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 9:26 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 8:18 PM, Kaushal Shriyan > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Are there any utilities or tools to look at historical data of Memory, > CPU > > Utilization or IO activity on CentOS 6.4 or 5.9 Version? For example the > > how much th

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Re: [CentOS] Partitionable Raid

2013-10-02 Thread Ireneusz Piasecki
W dniu 2013-10-02 13:03, Arun Khan pisze: > On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 4:29 PM, Arun Khan wrote: > >> June/2013 time frame and posted my woes in this mailing list. > > oops, s/b June/2012. Yes, June. But, if i good remember, this was a problem with dracut itself. I have had C6.2 with standard raid-1 a

Re: [CentOS] Partitionable Raid

2013-10-02 Thread Arun Khan
On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 4:29 PM, Arun Khan wrote: > June/2013 time frame and posted my woes in this mailing list. oops, s/b June/2012. -- Arun Khan ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Partitionable Raid

2013-10-02 Thread Arun Khan
On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 4:50 AM, Billy Crook wrote: > If sda fails outright, sdb will BECOME sda. This is usually the case > when a "drive fails". In the case of the partionable RAID stated by OP, the boot fails (see my posting from June/2012. > If sda is skillfully overwritten in specific places

Re: [CentOS] Partitionable Raid

2013-10-02 Thread Arun Khan
On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 9:33 PM, Eugenio Pacheco wrote: > Hi, > > After reading the tutorial at > http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Install_On_Partitionable_RAID1 I have the > following question: Please steer away from the above if possible. I did this around June/2013 time frame and posted my woes