HP ProLiant MicroServer

The_Unnamed said:
What lost gigs??
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Found this on net a while back, the usual disclaimers, your own risk blah blah but ran it on my drives an no problems.

This one came in handy when I bought a 1TB hard drive last week. Most linux distributions reserve 5% of new partitions for the root user and system services. The idea here is even when you run out of disk space, the root user should still be able to log in and system services should still run… this won’t happen if there is no space on the root partition. This policy may have been appropriate in the 90s when hard disk capacities were relatively low but this is 2010 and one can get a 1TB hard drive for a couple of hundred Ghana Cedis. 5% of that is about 51GB and those system services need only a couple of hundred megabytes.

So I decided to reclaim all that disk real estate with this command:

sudo tune2fs -m 0 /dev/sdb1

This sets the reserved blocks to 0%. This is an additional storage drive, I have no need to reserve disk space for system services. You can verify that this actually worked with:

sudo tune2fs -l /dev/sdb1 | grep ‘Reserved block count’

As usual, modify /dev/sdb1 to suit your partition setup. Have fun.
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Does anyone would like to share an Unraid license with me?
 
i don't think so...unless you start virtulizing .
 
anyone know where I can find some cheap Hard Drives?

PcInt is usually cheap but their 2TB 7200rpm's are R1,379! :wtf:

(I know about esquire but I lost my account details, and not in the mood to drive that far. Im in the east rand area.)
 
http://www.zapsonline.com/harddrive...tb-5900rpm-64mb-hard-drive-imst2000dl003.html
http://www.zapsonline.com/more-than...igital-cavair-green-power-2tb-hard-drive.html
http://www.zapsonline.com/more-than-1-tb/52766-wd-caviar-gp-av-2tb-sata-35-hard-drive.html
http://www.prophecy.co.za/seagate-b....html?osCsid=625c364742a14fd1a3ddf5446fe55830
http://www.prophecy.co.za/samsung-h....html?osCsid=625c364742a14fd1a3ddf5446fe55830
http://www.prophecy.co.za/seagate-b....html?osCsid=625c364742a14fd1a3ddf5446fe55830
http://www.wootware.co.za/seagate-s...900rpm-3-5-sata6g-internal-harddrive-oem.html
http://www.wootware.co.za/samsung-f4-2tb-3-5-sata2-internal-hard-drive-oem.html
http://www.wootware.co.za/western-digital-caviar-gp-2tb-3-5-sata2-internal-hard-drive-oem.html
http://www.wootware.co.za/western-d...-sata6g-5400-7200rpm-internal-hard-drive.html
 
Jeez....over R700 for those 5400 rpm drives, and then you have to factor in delivery too?

might as well go to Matrix warehouse and get a proper 7200rpm (and then not have to wait for delivery as a bonus)
A few days ago matrix had them for R700, but I see they are now R850 :wtf:



Maybe I should just get another Esquire account, wait for the 3TB Special and do some driving :(


(Thanx for the links though!)
 
Keeper said:
anyone know where I can find some cheap Hard Drives?

PcInt is usually cheap but their 2TB 7200rpm's are R1,379! :wtf:

(I know about esquire but I lost my account details, and not in the mood to drive that far. Im in the east rand area.)
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I got mine from esquire for R625 so up to you to decide if it's worth the drive.
Do u still have your card? then your should be able to buy.
 
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Keeper said:
Ah, there we go! :) :) :)

Thanx mate!





PS: does the HP handle XBMC allright hough, on huge databases with Aeon Nox? I've scraped my whole database and it does go a little slow sometimes on my Main PC.
(going into movies or series, or flicking around too fast)
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From what i have seen it does. A friend has a 2Tb full of Series and movies and it does not slow down.
 
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