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         with a different size (Listing 3). The output from the second command verifies that the RAM drives were created.
Listing 3
Adding RAM Drive of 32MB
$ sudo rapiddisk -a 32
rapiddisk 7.2.0
Copyright
    
 
		    
				        
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        .652902
  
  0.199173
  
  86.256026
  
  0.455025
  
  37.755903
  
  4,096
  
  5.855209
  
  23.472936
  
  12.275261
  
  11.196418
  
  1.575951
  
  87.21019
  
  3.468651
  
  39
    
 
		    
				    
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--> Processing Dependency: libpng12.so.0(PNG12_0) for package: rrdtool-1.3.8-6.el6.i686
--> Processing Dependency: libxml2.so.2 for package: rrdtool-1.3.8-6.el6.i686
--> Processing Dependency: libpango-1.0.so.0
    
 
		    
				        
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         drives from its SAS counterpart (Listing 5).
Listing 5: smartctl
 on SATA Drive
$ sudo smartctl -a /dev/sda
smartctl 7.1 2019-12-30 r5022 [x86_64-linux-5.4.0-66-generic] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002
    
 
		    
				        
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        ).
Listing 4
smartctl on SAS Drive
$ sudo smartctl -a /dev/sdc
smartctl 7.1 2019-12-30 r5022 [x86_64-linux-5.4.0-66-generic] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-19, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www
    
 
		    
				    
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        /laytonjb/TEST/SOURCE/ backup.0/
[laytonjb@home4 TEST]$ ls -s
total 12
4 backup.0/ 4 backup.1/ 4 SOURCE/
[laytonjb@home4 TEST]$ du -sh
19M .
[laytonjb@home4 TEST]$ du -sh SOURCE/
9.2M SOURCE/
[laytonjb@home4 TEST]$ du -sh
    
 
		    
				        
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         disk reads: 1306 MB in  3.00 seconds = 434.77 MB/sec
federico@cybertron:~$ sudo hdparm -W /dev/sdb
/dev/sdb:
 write-caching =  1 (on)
federico@cybertron:~$ sudo hdparm -W 0 /dev/sdb
/dev/sdb:
 write
    
 
		    
				        
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            8        2  488383488 sda2
12    8       16 6836191232 sdb
13    8       64 6836191232 sde
14    8       80   39078144 sdf
15    8       48 6836191232 sdd
16    8       32 6836191232 sdc
17   11        0    1048575 sr0
    
 
		    
				        
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                0    1048575 sr0
With the parted utility, you can create a single partition on each entire HDD:
$ for i in sdb sdc sdd sde; do sudo parted --script /dev/$i mklabel gpt mkpart primary 1MB 100
    
 
		    
				        
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         reqs merged:           3.76/s     Write reqs completed:            2.12/s
   Read BW:                     0.01 MB/s  Write BW:                        0.02 MB/s
   Avg sector size issued      25.28       Avg