A lie is still a lie. Once I reach 3.58 TB, I run out of space even though the NAS reports plenty. And where do I put a new drive? I already have all 5 slots filled.Even if I installed all 5 slots with 3tb drives, which is the largest it supports (for now), I still won't get the advertised 17tb.3+3+3+3+3=15tb, minus 3 for the "raid 5", leaves 12tb. If I can't trust a NAS to do math correctly on the file system size, how can I trust it to keep my data safe?

Every raid I admin, with the exception of the Drobo, has the ability to accurately report the volume size.

As far as reformatting the raid when adding a drive, I can resize all day long with LVM and not lose data.

And yes, I did read the manual. It mentions nothing about the volume size problem. The only thing it mentions is if you don't want to use the dashboard, map the drive in windows just like any other NAS.

Cheers,
RM

Mount the share, type df -h, get back from the OS: size 16T Used 2.0T Avail 14T Use% 13%. Start windows, load the dashboard program, click on free space, get Used 1.99T, Free 1.59T, Total 3.58T.

See the problem?

Hint: It lies to the OS on capacity and free space.

Cheers,
RM

Stay away from Drobo. I just bought a new unit, and the only way to see how much "real" free space you have is to use their windows based dashboard program. I have five 1TB drives in mine, the dashboard reports 3.5tb, while the filesystem mounted on both windows and linux report I have 17TB of space on the drives. I contacted their support, and they say it's as designed.

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RM

What's a "Windows" key?

My 27 year old Model M doesn't have one.

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RM

This! I wish I had mod points. I can't count the number of folks I've converted to using Total Commander.

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RM

Akonadi also has the excellent feature of refusing to run just after you import all your contacts into KAddressBook. Usually, the only fix is to completely nuke Akonadi and Kontact, reinstall, and start all over.

Fun times. :)

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RM

Na, he was a time lord.

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RM

FIFY

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RM

This. As a fan of both Sci-Fi, Fantasy and wrasslin, when they started showing the ECW show my first thought was, "What the frak are they thinking!" And it's still what I think about wrasslin on a Sci-FI channel. They don't mix.

Once I win the lotto, I'd like to buy the Syfy channel, rename it back to Sci-Fi, and take them hack to their roots. And send the wrasslin back to Spike.

Cheers,
RM

So I see that Clam AV has a windows version. Is it any good?

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RM

They still don't have the implementation right. My latest install is less than 3 months old, I finally get it to where is loads on boot. This is the first time since KDE 4.0. Now, I boot the box, the cpu is maxed. Kill -9 Akonadi, kill -9 the indexer, kill -9 a few other related services, and guess what, no fscking contacts. Restart Kontact. Rinse-repeat until Akonadi decides it wants to cooperate.

I can't trust Kontact to safeguard my contacts anymore. The idea of Kontact is great! It really is a great PIM. But they need to get far, far away from that piece of shit Akonadi. Until they do, or make it bulletproof, Kontact is useless. And that's a real shame.

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RM

Really. OpenGL is nice. The one thing that the KDE team could really do to make the DE better is fix the contact manager in Kontact. Please! Fix it. On every install I have, the DE whines about Akondi can't start, and the contact manager does not work. Everything else in the PIM works, but what good is a PIM if it can't keep contacts?

The rest of the DE is great. It looks nice, works well, and is more stable than Win7. I will go so far as to say I love KDE 4. But the contact manager is horribly broken. If any of the KDE devs are watching, please fix it. Or maybe someone can make a working contact manager plugin for Kontact. Dam, I wish I could code.

Cheers, RM

For the love of $deity, but the CTRL key back where it frakkin' belongs, next to the frakkin' A key!

Seriously. CTRL-key combo's are much easier to press, while touch typing, when the CTRL key is just to the left of the A key.

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RM

There's a very easy fix for the portrait problem you describe. I took my 16x10 monitor and rotated it 90 degrees. Now I can see the entire 8x11 page on one screen. My Office Manager has one 16x10 in landscape mode for excel, and one in portrait mode for word.

And what makes it even easier, most monitors (and video cards) come with a driver plugin to switch between portrait/landscape modes with a mouseclick.

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RM

Abrams and his D.P. should be waterboarded over the misuse of lensflares. Every 5 fscking minutes, a lens flare. Good movie, but being blinded every time the camera moves killed it for me.

If you go see it, take some shades.

Cheers,
RM