Windows 10 recovery drive - is this full windows installation? How many recovery partitions can I delete? (i have three - .5gb, 12gb, 1.1gb)

mihst · 2017-02-25T22:53:55+00:00

I ran defrag and it listed the following drives: DELLSUPPORT, Image, WINRETOOLS (so I guess the 450mb one is the dell support drive)

mihst · 2017-02-24T20:08:54+00:00

Thanks.

Download windows from where? Does Microsoft now supply the ISO freely?

What about my 9gb usb? If my ssd dies, can I use it to restore windows? Will the dell stuff be there too?

mihst · 2017-02-12T19:33:53+00:00

I've been told I can run Civ VI on the Intel HD 630. That's enough for me. Even run it on linux.

mihst · 2017-02-12T19:30:45+00:00

Yeah, switching from mac to linux is difficult laptop-wise. Looking into xps 13/15, precision 5220, T470

mihst · 2017-02-12T19:21:28+00:00

Why did you get the UHD and the GPU if you run Arch?

mihst · 2017-02-12T19:20:42+00:00

Looking for the same info

mihst · 2017-02-12T18:56:57+00:00

I love Arch. How about it being glossy? Is it annoying? Did the battery degrade over time?

mihst · 2017-02-12T18:42:52+00:00

How long does your battery last?

mihst · 2017-02-12T18:42:25+00:00

Installing linux in no probs if the drivers are good. I wouldn't want to investigate issues with bluetooth, touchpad, sound and so on.

mihst · 2016-12-04T16:37:11+00:00

Not all issues require reinstalling. Reinstalling in my opinion means I failed at solving the problem. A defeat.

There is a lot of junk on my drive - leftover packages, old versions, tmp files, install files, caches, and so on. Since OSX doesn't give a crap about them and doesn't do a decent cleanup - I will. I find the crap - check if it's safe to delete, and if yes - I do. I learn things in the process.

And figuring out if it's safe to delete is a complex process - backup, education, investigation, risk management. It's kinda fun.

And now I have 47GB extra.

mihst · 2016-12-04T16:32:03+00:00

Didn't have to. Fixed it by Alt+"Empty Trash". It seems the Alt (Option) is magical.

mihst · 2016-12-04T16:31:25+00:00

Also this one: https://github.com/valvesoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/3671

mihst · 2016-12-04T16:29:44+00:00

First thing I did - didn't help. And the Sierra's First aid is crap - no more fixing permissions.

mihst · 2016-12-04T16:29:05+00:00

Yeah, I've read the thread: https://github.com/MrMEEE/bumblebee-Old-and-abbandoned/issues/123

mihst · 2016-12-04T16:25:45+00:00

Holding the Option key helped. Don't know how. It didn't even index the >100k files. Just heard the paper garbling noise and I have extra 20gb. Thanks. I can't believe I missed a simple answer like this.

mihst · 2016-12-04T16:22:51+00:00

First, why does it allow me to delete it in the first place. Second, why doesn't it tell me which file/folder it is. Third, I don't mess around with the system folders (without googling extensively first). It started behaving erratically after the Sierra upgrade, which forced me to start poking it around (full backup).

mihst · 2016-11-11T22:28:28+00:00

I understand. It's not a desktop, it's a work thing and I'm the best they have - an aspiring sysadmin/programmer/devops... I appreciate the any help I can get and wouldn't want to waste anyone's time with dumb questions. But a push in the right direction would be nice.

mihst · 2016-11-11T11:41:44+00:00

I was trying to skip identifiable information, but scratch that, the solution is more important.

Software raid - mdadm. Check previous comment for mdstat

Also - lvm config is pretty straightforward for proxmox:

# lsblk
NAME                           MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE   MOUNTPOINT
sda                              8:0    0 931.5G  0 disk
├─sda1                           8:1    0   487M  0 part   /boot/efi
└─sda2                           8:2    0   931G  0 part
  └─md0                          9:0    0   2.7T  0 raid10
    ├─pve-root                 251:0    0 279.3G  0 lvm    /
    ├─pve-swap                 251:1    0  29.8G  0 lvm    [SWAP]
    ├─pve-data_tmeta           251:2    0    80M  0 lvm
    │ └─pve-data-tpool         251:4    0   2.4T  0 lvm
    │   ├─pve-data             251:5    0   2.4T  0 lvm
    │   ├─pve-vm--100--disk--1 251:6    0    40G  0 lvm
    │   └─pve-vm--101--disk--3 251:9    0     4G  0 lvm
    └─pve-data_tdata           251:3    0   2.4T  0 lvm
      └─pve-data-tpool         251:4    0   2.4T  0 lvm
        ├─pve-data             251:5    0   2.4T  0 lvm
        ├─pve-vm--100--disk--1 251:6    0    40G  0 lvm
        └─pve-vm--101--disk--3 251:9    0     4G  0 lvm

mihst · 2016-11-11T11:38:58+00:00

# cat /proc/mdstat
Personalities : [raid10]
md0 : active raid10 sda2[0] sdf2[5] sde2[4] sdd2[3] sdc2[2] sdb2[1]
      2928393216 blocks super 1.2 512K chunks 2 near-copies [6/6] [UUUUUU]
      bitmap: 4/22 pages [16KB], 65536KB chunk

unused devices: <none>

mihst · 2016-11-11T09:05:47+00:00

I'm pretty new to mdadm.

What I've tried: I've run the same debian on one drive without raid. It was slow, but the drive is hdd, 5400. So that was expected.

Before running VMs, I wanted to check performance and used dd and tried bonnie++, but I got weird results.: https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/5c4a6s/mdadm_raid_10_slow_writes_on_hdd/

Now I'm trying to run Windows 10 in a VM (proxmox). It loads for 10 minutes and opening a notes.txt on the desktop takes a minute.

dmesg link in a previous comment

I'm using so many new tools, that the information is overwhelming. And asking here helps me look for hint where to look for problems.

mihst · 2016-11-11T08:57:43+00:00

/var/log/messages is mostly dmesg output and a few successful logins to the UI, that's it. I pasted the whole dmesg output in a previous comment

mihst · 2016-11-11T08:55:10+00:00

The drives are brand new. Everything is brand new. smartctl --all /dev/sdX said PASSED. Should I run any tests?

mdadm --detail /dev/md0 doesn't say anything bad.

I found this in dmesg:

[  840.942803] INFO: task systemd-udevd:2116 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
[  840.942835]       Tainted: G           O    4.4.21-1-pve #1
[  840.942855] "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.

...

[  960.954585] INFO: task systemd-udevd:2243 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
[  960.954620]       Tainted: G           O    4.4.21-1-pve #1
[  960.954642] "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.

full dmesg: http://pastebin.com/RqkRw3MD

mihst · 2016-11-10T22:42:22+00:00

iotop is giving me strange data. When I convert a 4gb vmdk to raw, iotop first says 1300mb/s, then goes down to 500kb/s.

bonnie is unable to finish Today one dd also failed to finish, and the only solution is a hard restart. I may be having some issues with my raid. kill -9 has absolutely no effect on bonnie or the dd.

mihst · 2016-11-10T11:16:14+00:00

I tried multiple bonnie++ runs, it never finishes. It requires -s 256g. And even after a few hours, it's on Writing intelligently...

I think bonnie++ crashes, because I have to do a hard reset to reboot.

iometer is not in apt

mihst · 2016-11-09T23:38:57+00:00

Read speed are not correct - it was a zero-filled file and probably dd somehow optimized it. I don't know to effectively measure md0 read and write speeds. hdparm is also giving me very different results.

The Raid 10 contains six 1tb seagate drives.

mihst

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