Re: [CentOS] is it possible to resive /var online?

2010-05-02 Thread Brendan Minish
On Sun, 2010-05-02 at 19:12 -0400, JohnS wrote: > Sounds good but I really do wonder if he has a hardware raid controller > that does not support resizing of Linux LVM on top of the HW Raid Volume > Set?? No one asked that part. Surely if the Volume group has unallocated space extending the LV s

Re: [CentOS] is it possible to resive /var online?

2010-05-02 Thread Brendan Minish
On Sun, 2010-05-02 at 23:01 +0200, Rudi Ahlers wrote: --snip-- > Has anyone done anything like this before, with success? i.e. do you > have a working procedure / script to share with me? I won't be able to > test the process, if it fails then I'm stuck yes, on line, with no issues on centos

Re: [CentOS] is it possible to resive /var online?

2010-05-02 Thread Brendan Minish
Rudi Ahlers wrote: > Hi all, > > Is it possible, safely, to resize /var while a server is running? I > urgently need to resize a full 2GB /var on a running server which is > located at a remote location where no one can get to it for 2 days? > > The system runs on lvm. Growing on line EXT3 f

Re: [CentOS] vtund error

2010-04-08 Thread Brendan Minish
I ran into this issue on a busy vtund server, it would eventually deadlock networking After some detective work it appears to be as a result of this bug https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=541224 The bug report has a patch, I applied it to the kernel source and rebuilt a new kernel RPM

Re: [CentOS] NMS Opinions

2009-12-22 Thread Brendan Minish
On Tue, 2009-12-22 at 02:36 +, Joseph L. Casale wrote: > Any opinions appreciated! > jlc Take a look at zenoss too, I am in the process of deploying it as a replacement for a rather elderly and under-resourced Nagios server Liking it a lot so far http://www.zenoss.com/ there's good help on

Re: [CentOS] Lost raid when server reboots

2009-11-11 Thread Brendan Minish
On Wed, 2009-11-11 at 12:43 +0100, carlopmart wrote: > Hi all, > > I have setup a raid1 between two iscsi disks and mdadm command goes well. > Problems > starts when i rebooted the server (CentOS 5.4 fully updated): raid is lost, > and i > don't understand why. Just a thought, but are the r