Monthly Archives: November 2010

Growing A Huge XFS Volume

Posted on November 19, 2010 by Brian

K, I’ve got 4 2GB drives mirrored and welded together with LVM. I backed up everything on the old volume (twice in some cases). I deleted the old 6.5 TB Volume. That takes balls. I created a new 1.5TB mirror … Continue reading →

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Building a New Massive MythTV Media Volume with RAID 1 and LVM.

Posted on November 16, 2010 by Brian

So I’ve got four new 2TB drives mirrored together in pairs with mdadm, then welded together with LVM. Here are the commands I used to execute the build. fdisk /dev/sdf # note the mdadm arguments below are prefixed with double … Continue reading →

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Access a MSSQL Database with Perl Quickie

Posted on November 15, 2010 by Brian

use strict; use FindBin; use lib(“e:\\re\\scripts\\lib”); use vars qw($opt_h); use Getopt::Std; use Util; use Logger; use DBI; use LWP::Simple; if (main()) { exit(0); # DOS Success Code } else { exit(1); # DOS Failure } sub main() { if (! … Continue reading →

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Antec 650 MythTV Home Server

Posted on November 7, 2010 by Brian

Here’s the stats of the server and some gratuitous pictures: Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 Wolfdale 3.16GHz LGA 775 65W Dual-Core Processor BX80570E8500 Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 ST31500341AS 1.5TB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5″ Internal Hard Drive ASUS P5Q-E LGA 775 … Continue reading →

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Upgrading the Antec Titan 650 Server With Rosewill 4 Channel PCIe to SATA II and 5.25 Drive Bay

Posted on November 7, 2010 by Brian

When I built this system two years ago I decided to span a volume across multiple large hard drives with LVM to get the storage capacity I wanted. I would also keep backups of everything I had so if even … Continue reading →

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