On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 7:42 AM, Ivan Avery Frey via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
On Wed, Jul 27, 2016, 23:31 William Park via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 12:08:56PM -0400, Michael Galea via talk wrote:
PS: A few years ago I noticed an interesting behaviour in Linux. When rsyncing hundreds of GB from the eSata to the USB mounted drive I found the file system to become unreliable and unmountable. A workaround that I now follow is to add an "--bwlimit=15000" in the rsync command, which ensures that the eSata doesn't get too far ahead of the USB drive. May be completely unnecessary now..
That's because USB gets disconnected and reconnected. So, /dev/sdc becomes /dev/sdd in the middle of copying.
I had an issue with a motherboard, sometimes a drive would come up sda or sdb. So I stuck labels on my partitions and used those in my fstab.
If I understand correctly the present 'correct' way to refer to a drive is using its uuid. Any other method is recommended to be deprecated. (From linux-raid group notes and conversations.) Dee