[plug] WD-EARS 2TB drives and linux?

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I'm running 4 of them without issue, no reallignment or anything done,
just fdisk and put to work as you did

On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 11:21, Ari <sothisistheinternet at gmail.com> wrote:
>  Hi guys,
>
> I think I may have made an error and I'm just now realising it. I have two
> WD Greenpower 2TB drives - one as an encrypted backup drive (using luks) and
> one as a storage drive (also using luks). I just fdisked them and put them
> to work. Now I'm hearing I should have realligned them or some such? I'm
> searching but not sure exactly what's up or if it's even applicable to linux
> (using Fedora Core 11). Any help would be greatly appreciated. The storage
> drive backs up onto a Seagate external 2TB drive, and the backup drive is a
> backup of two 1TB greenpower drives (I think). I'm freaking out just a
> little here about terrabytes of data loss!
>
> TIA,
>
> Ari
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