{"id":1880,"date":"2024-01-31T18:58:36","date_gmt":"2024-01-31T23:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unliterate.net\/?p=1880"},"modified":"2024-01-31T18:58:37","modified_gmt":"2024-01-31T23:58:37","slug":"today-i-learned-storage-expensive-data-priceless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unliterate.net\/index.php\/2024\/01\/31\/today-i-learned-storage-expensive-data-priceless\/","title":{"rendered":"Today I Learned: Storage expensive, Data priceless"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We have a combination Plex Media<\/a>\/Minecraft<\/a>\/Archive server that we’ve had since we purchased our first 6TB Hard Drive<\/a> on December 30, 2019 ($99.99 at the time). After some time we upgraded to our massive 14TB Hard Drive<\/a> ($293.00 at the time) on October 16, 2021. It took a bit over a couple years to fill things up, and now we recently invested into a 16TB Hard Drive<\/a> ($279.00 at purchase) to continue our storage needs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

$ df -h\r\nFilesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on\r\n\/dev\/sda3       457G  288G  169G  64% \/\r\n\/dev\/sda1      1014M  202M  813M  20% \/boot\r\n\/dev\/sdd1        13T   12T   52G 100% \/mnt\/usb14\r\n\/dev\/sdc1       5.5T  4.3T  962G  82% \/mnt\/usb03\r\n\r<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Now it’s time to get this new drive ready for usage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Step 1: Plug it in<\/strong>
Plug it in. 3 USB devices and 2 ports, so I had to get a USB 2.0 hub. The PC itself only has 2.0 hubs, so we go with what we got.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Step 2: Boot things up<\/strong>
With the USB hub things might’ve been a bit dodgy, but after booting up, verifying all my previous volumes mounted fine and seeing that it find the third drive gave me a sigh of relief.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Step 3: Partition the new drive<\/strong>
fdisk -l showed me that the system recognized the new volume. In this case this Seagate was preset for Windows users, and that wasn’t quite my style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Disk \/dev\/sdb: 14.6 TiB, 16000900660736 bytes, 31251759103 sectors\r\nUnits: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes\r\nSector size (logical\/physical): 512 bytes \/ 4096 bytes\r\nI\/O size (minimum\/optimal): 4096 bytes \/ 4096 bytes\r\nDisklabel type: gpt\r\nDisk identifier: 01000000-0000-0000-4E54-31373537314C\r\n\r\nDevice      Start         End     Sectors  Size Type\r\n\/dev\/sdb1      40      409639      409600  200M EFI System\r\n\/dev\/sdb2  411648 31251757055 31251345408 14.6T Microsoft basic data<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
d twice to delete the partitions, the creating the new one rendered me one 14.6TB Linux Partition.
v, then w, and then I’m ready to create and mount this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Step 4: format my partition<\/strong>
My other disks are ext4, so mkfs -t ext4 \/dev\/sdb1 is going to be my go-to command.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Step 5: mounting the new partition<\/strong>
My system is to place the “size” as the number in \/mnt\/usbXX, so this will be mounted as \/mnt\/usb16. I also have to find the uuid in \/dev\/disk\/by-uuid\/ so I can make sure this disk will always be reliably mounted.
Setting the correct parameters in \/etc\/fstab and mount -a tells me I’m fairly done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
$ df -h\r\nFilesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on\r\n\/dev\/sda3       457G  288G  169G  64% \/\r\n\/dev\/sda1      1014M  202M  813M  20% \/boot\r\n\/dev\/sdd1        13T   12T   52G 100% \/mnt\/usb14\r\n\/dev\/sdc1       5.5T  4.3T  962G  82% \/mnt\/usb03\r\n\/dev\/sdb1        15T   19M   14T   1% \/mnt\/usb16\r<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Step 6: Move things around<\/strong>
Now it’s time to move things around…
otherwise, ALL DONE!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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