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Liking btrfs a lot.

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Liking btrfs a lot.  This weekend I started upgrading to a 2x2T drive setup for media from a single 1T drive.  A bit of a pain, but I learned a bit.  I also found out that my current drive was probably in worse shape than I thought.

- Upgrading Seagate drive firmware using grub2 chained bootable iso was a no-go.  Will just have to live with it.

- Learned about GPT partitions and 4k sectors and gdisk.  Nice to see that drive partitioning has almost progressed beyond MBR and 4 partitions.

- Added the new drive using btrfs device add

- Converted to RAID1 using btrfs balance

- Almost freaked out when my old drive hit a patch of bad sectors.

- Deleted some unused junk on the drive.  Rebooted

- Started the balance again, success!  (btrfs also remapped a bunch of bad metadata using it's built-in redundancy! btrfs read error corrected:)

Next up, removing the old drive and adding in the 2nd 2T drive, followed by moving the root and home partitions to a new SSD.  Anyone using btrfs on their boot partition?

 

Get your #musicmonday  moving with some Greek punk/grunge.

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Get your  moving with some Greek punk/grunge.

You can really hear the Nirvana-esque Steve Albini production along with shades of X, the Sex Pistols and Gossip.

I suppose Punk from disaffected youth is the only silver lining for the Greek financial mess.

h/t to Pixbear for review.

 
 
 

PRWeb also has a problem with people using them for spam.

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PRWeb also has a problem with people using them for spam.  For example the press release you see below was republished on sfgate.com.  Once published it was pushed into SFgate's Most Read list by bots.

At $159 per press release it's probably cheaper than other spam vectors..