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Preparing hard disks for delivery

Plug in the external hard drive.








Create a partition:
run mount to find the name of the partition you need to unmount e.g /dev/sdb1

Unmount the partition with umount /dev/device_name, e.g. umount /dev/sdb1 (if not already unmounted)

Run fdisk /dev/DEVICE_NAME (not partition)

enter 'd' to delete the current partition
enter 'n' to create a new partition

Format the disk:

Unmount the partition.

Run mke2fs -j /dev/partition

Change permissions:

Unplug the disk and plug back in. The disk space should be located under /media/disk.

It is wise to check that this destination is correct: 'df /media/disk' to check that this is where the device is mounted.


Copy over your data onto the disk

Copy the delivery folder from the workspace to /media/disk. Top directory should be the one with the project code.

Finalising hard disk

Set permissions and owner:

chmod a+rX,a-w -R /media/disk
chown root.root -R /media/disk


Cover letter


Data quality report


Trac and website updating

  1. Update trac ticket for this project:
  2. Update the status database to reflect the delivered data (http://arsf-dan.nerc.ac.uk/status/addflight/editflight.php)
  3. Update the page saying who has our disks? (if sent on disk)
  4. Update the status spreadsheet (and record the time the project took you)

Email the PI

  1. email them that you're putting the disk in the post and to ask for confirmation of receipt
    1. Please CC to arsf-processing@… to keep others informed
    2. Please set a reply-to header to arsf-processing@… to ensure replies don't go to personal mail


Notification of ARSF data delivery for <PROJECT CODE>

Reply-to and CC headers:




Dear <PI>,

This is to notify you that we have placed your ARSF data on a FTP server accessible at <FTPADDRESS>.  Please let us know when you have downloaded the data so we can reuse the space.

The delivery comprises:
 - Specim Eagle flight lines taken on <DATE>
 - Specim Hawk flight lines taken on <DATE>
 - LIDAR flight lines taken on <DATE>
 - Digital Photography taken on <DATE>




ARSF Data Analysis Node.
Plymouth Marine Laboratory,
Prospect Place,
PL1 3DH.

Email: arsf-processing@pml.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)1752 633432
Fax: +44 (0)1752 633101
Web (NERC): http://arsf.nerc.ac.uk/
Web (processing wiki): http://arsf-dan.nerc.ac.uk/trac/ 

Next stage

  1. If this was the final delivery and all sensors have been rsynced back to respository then set ticket to 'archiving'

This section relates to burning data to DVD

Burning the data

  2. test the iso with sudo mount -o ro,loop /tmp/dvd.iso /mnt/tmp - mounts to /mnt/tmp, go look at it, then unmount with sudo umount /mnt/tmp (yes, that is umount not unmount). Create /mnt/tmp if it doesn't exist.
  3. if it's ok, burn to CD/DVD with sudo cdrecord dev=/dev/dvd -sao fs=100m driveropts=burnfree -v /tmp/dvd.iso
  4. clean up with rm /tmp/dvd.iso
  5. check the dvd on another machine (ideally Windows)


  1. open the CD template from ~arsf/arsf_data/2007/delivery/cd_covers/arsf_cd_label_gimp_editable.xcf in gimp
  2. lick on the text button in the toolbox, then click the GB... text and edit to reflect the correct project code
  4. Insert the disk (upside down) on the lightscribe machine (currently pmpc974) and run 4L-cli print /dev/sr0 ~/ipy0708214ef.bmp

