From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 23 23:10:42 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0395116A40F for ; Thu, 23 Nov 2006 23:10:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@jnielsen.net) Received: from ns1.jnielsen.net (ns1.jnielsen.net [69.55.238.237]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00E4143D5D for ; Thu, 23 Nov 2006 23:10:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lists@jnielsen.net) Received: from [192.168.0.102] (cpe-024-163-054-055.nc.res.rr.com [24.163.54.55]) (authenticated bits=0) by ns1.jnielsen.net (8.12.9p2/8.12.9) with ESMTP id kANNAadG027508; Thu, 23 Nov 2006 15:10:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lists@jnielsen.net) From: John Nielsen To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2006 18:10:33 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.4 References: <200611231525.58206.lists@jnielsen.net> In-Reply-To: X-Face: #X5#Y*q>F:]zT!DegL3z5Xo'^MN[$8k\[4^3rN~wm=s=Uw(sW}R?3b^*f1Wu*.<=?utf-8?q?of=5F4NrS=0A=09P*M/9CpxDo!D6?=)IY1w<9B1jB; tBQf[RU-R<,I)e"$q7N7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200611231810.34234.lists@jnielsen.net> X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.88.4, clamav-milter version 0.88.4 on ns1.jnielsen.net X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: usleepless@gmail.com Subject: Re: creating a "broken" graid3 array? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2006 23:10:42 -0000 On Thursday 23 November 2006 17:10, usleepless@gmail.com wrote: > > is the loss of your data worth less than the cost of an extra hd? if > > so, buy another hd. if not, make a clean install? > > should read: > is the cost of an extra hd less than the value of your data/install? if > so, buy another hd. if not, make a clean install? I have backups of the data that can't be reproduced. I just don't have room for some of the larger files (CD ISO's, DVD rips, etc). It would be inconvenient to lose the data but far from catastrophic. One goal of this exercise is to get some redundancy, but at least as important are the goals of learning more about something I haven't used before (graid3) and getting a larger volume on a limited budget. Besides, trickery is where the fun comes in. :) I appreciate the response, though. It's a point I might have raised myself. JN