[GTALUG] Advice -- Building Debian 8 PC To Replace Win XP PC;

[o1bigtenor]

On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 7:42 AM, Ivan Avery Frey via talk
<talk at gtalug.org> wrote:
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> On Wed, Jul 27, 2016, 23:31 William Park via talk <talk at gtalug.org> wrote:
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>> On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 12:08:56PM -0400, Michael Galea via talk wrote:
>> > PS: A few years ago I noticed an interesting behaviour in Linux.  When
>> > rsyncing hundreds of GB from the eSata to the USB mounted drive I found
>> > the
>> > file system to become unreliable and unmountable.  A workaround that I
>> > now
>> > follow is to add an "--bwlimit=15000" in the rsync command, which
>> > ensures
>> > that the eSata doesn't get too far ahead of the USB drive. May be
>> > completely
>> > unnecessary now..
>>
>> That's because USB gets disconnected and reconnected.  So, /dev/sdc
>> becomes /dev/sdd in the middle of copying.
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> I had an issue with a motherboard, sometimes a drive would come up sda or
> sdb. So I stuck labels on my partitions and used those in my fstab.
>

If I understand correctly the present 'correct' way to refer to a
drive is using
its uuid. Any other method is recommended to be deprecated.

(From linux-raid group notes and conversations.)

Dee