[CentOS] Booting from an ISO file in a XFS /boot partition

2021-04-08 Thread Gestió Servidors
Hi, I want to boot with a customized iPXE iso boot file from my GRUB2 menu. My system is running CentOS-7, with /boot formated as XFS filesystem. After copying my iPXE.iso into /boot, I have created a custom GRUB2 file in /etc/grub.d/40_custom like this: menuentry "iPXE" { set i

Re: [CentOS] Booting from an ISO file in a XFS /boot partition

2021-04-08 Thread Leon Fauster via CentOS
On 08.04.21 11:16, Gestió Servidors wrote: Hi, I want to boot with a customized iPXE iso boot file from my GRUB2 menu. My system is running CentOS-7, with /boot formated as XFS filesystem. After copying my iPXE.iso into /boot, I have created a custom GRUB2 file in /etc/grub.d/40_custom like t

Re: [CentOS] Automatic clean /tmp folder

2021-04-08 Thread Gestió Servidors
>>> With these files I supposed that a file with more than 10 days in /tmp >>> would be automatically deleted, but today I have found some files/folders >>> with more than 10 days. >>> >>> What I have done wrong? >> >> The test is on access time, not modification. Have they been read in the

Re: [CentOS] Booting from an ISO file in a XFS /boot

2021-04-08 Thread Gestió Servidors
> Just guessing - loading the grub module for xfs is missing? Also, I have test adding "insmod xfs" in the "menuentry" section of my "iPXE" boot option, but result is the same... ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailma

[CentOS] Resize a VM: any risk involved ?

2021-04-08 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Hi, I'm currently fiddling with KVM, Proxmox and various VMs. I setup a very basic VM with a manual (fdisk) partitioning scheme: one /boot partition, one swap partition, and one root partition, the latter being the last partition and thus expandable). I'm starting with a reduced disk size (6 GB

Re: [CentOS] Resize a VM: any risk involved ?

2021-04-08 Thread Leon Fauster via CentOS
On 08.04.21 17:43, Nicolas Kovacs wrote: Hi, I'm currently fiddling with KVM, Proxmox and various VMs. I setup a very basic VM with a manual (fdisk) partitioning scheme: one /boot partition, one swap partition, and one root partition, the latter being the last partition and thus expandable). I

Re: [CentOS] Resize a VM: any risk involved ?

2021-04-08 Thread Simon Matter
> Hi, > > I'm currently fiddling with KVM, Proxmox and various VMs. > > I setup a very basic VM with a manual (fdisk) partitioning scheme: one > /boot > partition, one swap partition, and one root partition, the latter being > the > last partition and thus expandable). > > I'm starting with a reduc

[CentOS] CentOS 8

2021-04-08 Thread Steve Clark via CentOS
Hello, How do I allow root log in on GDM. The only people that have access are admins - so I am not worried about someone screwing things up. Thanks, -- Stephen Clark Email Confidentiality Notice: The information contained in this transmission may contain privileged and confidential and/or pr

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 8

2021-04-08 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Le 08/04/2021 à 18:58, Steve Clark via CentOS a écrit : > How do I allow root log in on GDM. tl;dr: you don't. Log in as a non-root user, and when you do need root, either open up a terminal and use 'su -' or (even better) setup your user by making your user a member of the wheel group and then u

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 8

2021-04-08 Thread Tony Schreiner
On Thu, Apr 8, 2021 at 2:33 PM Nicolas Kovacs wrote: > Le 08/04/2021 à 18:58, Steve Clark via CentOS a écrit : > > How do I allow root log in on GDM. > > tl;dr: you don't. > > Log in as a non-root user, and when you do need root, either open up a > terminal > and use 'su -' or (even better) setup

Re: [CentOS] Resize a VM: any risk involved ?

2021-04-08 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Le 08/04/2021 à 18:35, Simon Matter a écrit : > BTW, are you not using XFS these days? Been using ext4 for ages. Force of habit, I guess. I have yet to find a reason to move to something different. Niki -- Microlinux - Solutions informatiques durables 7, place de l'église - 30730 Montpezat Sit

Re: [CentOS] Resize a VM: any risk involved ?

2021-04-08 Thread Valeri Galtsev
On 4/8/2021 4:49 PM, Nicolas Kovacs wrote: Le 08/04/2021 à 18:35, Simon Matter a écrit : BTW, are you not using XFS these days? I remember the first Linux HOWTO I used to start with xfs was entitled: \ XFS: Linux on steroids ;-) Valeri Been using ext4 for ages. Force of habit, I guess.

Re: [CentOS] Resize a VM: any risk involved ?

2021-04-08 Thread Fred
I'm using VirtualBox for a few VMs, the biggest one is a Ubuntu 20.04 that ocassionally grows too small, so I use virtualbox tools to enlarge the disk then boot up something that h as gparted in it and use gparted to stretch/move partitions. Not being familiar with (i.e., not having used) KVM I ca

Re: [CentOS] Resize a VM: any risk involved ?

2021-04-08 Thread R C
You could make a copy of the VM, and  see if you can resize things  with the copy and see if it breaks? On 4/8/21 9:43 AM, Nicolas Kovacs wrote: Hi, I'm currently fiddling with KVM, Proxmox and various VMs. I setup a very basic VM with a manual (fdisk) partitioning scheme: one /boot partition

Re: [CentOS] Automatic clean /tmp folder

2021-04-08 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, Apr 08, 2021 at 01:09:57PM +, Gestió Servidors wrote: With these files I supposed that a file with more than 10 days in /tmp would be automatically deleted, but today I have found some files/folders with more than 10 days. What I have done wrong? The test is on access time, not mod