[K12OSN] RAID Question

[James P. Kinney III]

On Thu, 2009-04-09 at 01:58 -0400, "Terrell Prudé Jr." wrote:

> 1.)  Install the hard disk into your system.
> 2.)  Make two partitions of about equal size on the hard disk.  Use
> fdisk or whatever you prefer.
> 3.)  Format both partitions *simultaneously*.  That means start one
> format command, and then start the second one very shortly thereafter.
> In UNIX parlance, that'd be "make filesystems on each partition
> simultaneously."
> 
> What will happen when you start that second "mke2fs" command is that
> you will hear the read/write head going back 'n' forth like crazy.  I
> would just do that over and over again for about a week, on each disk,
> on both partitions.  This is, of course, scriptable, so you can set
> these "mke2fs" commands in a do-forever loop and just let it do its
> thing.

"dd" is a serious stress tester. It will choke up an error if it can't
read or write.

2 drives: sda sdb. 
Create a single partition on each drive the full size of each drive or
the smaller of the two drives (each partition should be exactly the same
size)

#put data on drive - don't use /dev/random as it'll take 20+ years!
dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sda1 && dd if=/dev/sda1 of=/dev/sdb1
dd if=/dev/sdb1 of=/dev/sda1
# repeat as desired - this is good if you have ability to read drive
temperatures as well.

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