RE: [cobalt-users] hard drive 61 revisited

[jale@xxxxxxxxxx]

> I'm thinking of making one backup to use in place (like you suggest) and 
> the original and an extra off site; and another new one in place as the 
> on-line rsync'd unit. For under $100/drive, it is cheap insurance.


Just ordered 5400RPM 20gig drives (closest I could find to my 13gig) - $65 
each :)
Love it - I remember that in about 1994, a friend was VP of Maxtor and told 
us to just watch out, drives will be under $.10 (10 cents) a meg soon; I 
think I just paid about $.005/meg (1/2 cent per meg).

If a mirrored drive is brought on-line, is there a way to partition and 
gain the extra 7 gig over the 13gig the drive will natively run as?

I'll be sure to write to this list after doing this procedure and report 
anything good/bad/indifferent that would be of interest (like how long the 
dd and rsync's take).

Regards,
Jale