Archive for October, 2009

Rebuilding Software RAID Array on Debian

Monday, October 19th, 2009

I don’t know why I always forget this command, or why it is so hard to discern from the man page / –help information. I just had my drives in an existing RAID array get out of sync and needed to rebuild the one that was down. This did the trick:
mdadm /dev/md0 -a /dev/sdb1
This is [...]

CD Baby’s Shipment Confirmation Email

Wednesday, October 7th, 2009

CD Baby just sent me the following shipment confirmation email. It’s witty enough that I’m willing to give them (and my friend’s great CD!) a free plug here. Companies that write emails like this are in short supply.
Brian-
Thanks for your order with CD Baby!
USPS
(1) David Harris: St. Bartholomew and The Frail Stag
Your CD has been [...]