It’s this time again. Last time in 2012. Fast forward to 2021. Here we are again. This time it a little different. The drive has not failed yet but it shows signs of failures. smartctrl says it cannot read few sectors. Waring: One thing you learn over many years working with computers, servers, etc, is… Continue reading gpt/mdadm/debian stable/failed drive replacement howto
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Moving / (root partition) to NVME while keeping /home on HDD
I need to move my running Linux Debian machine to my new m.2 nvme Samsung drive to gain 10x IO speed improvement. It’s crazy fast! The procedure is very similar as below http://lucasmanual.com/blog/move-root-partition-to-home-partition/ Prerequisites: You already installed NVME and partitioned it You have gpt2 with grub partition similar to : /dev/nvme0n1p1 [ 2.00 MiB] /dev/nvme0n1p2… Continue reading Moving / (root partition) to NVME while keeping /home on HDD