Boot / LVM best practices

2010-04-11 Thread M.Lewis
I have a machine running Lenny with a 250GB IDE HD in it. The HD is on its last legs giving S.M.A.R.T. errors. I have a question about how best to divide things up in the new setup. The current 250GB IDE HD has two partitions on it: /dev/hda1 = linux (~80 MB) /dev/hda2 = linux LVM (~249.92

Re: Experimental (temporarily)

2008-12-23 Thread M.Lewis
John Hasler wrote: M. Lewis writes: Given I'm running Lenny and I would like to test out the new Chrony (announced today) which is in Experimental, how can I do this without upgrading my entire system to Experimental? Easily. chrony_1.23-6rt1, the new version in Experimental, is just chrony_

Re: LVM reorganization [follow-up]

2008-12-23 Thread M.Lewis
Rick Thomas wrote: On Dec 22, 2008, at 1:52 AM, M.Lewis wrote: e2fsck -f /dev/curley/home# check consistency before starting (may be required by resize2fs?) resize2fs /dev/curley/home 30G# change the size of (fs) /dev/curley/home from whatever it is, to 30GB lvreduce

Experimental (temporarily)

2008-12-22 Thread M.Lewis
Given I'm running Lenny and I would like to test out the new Chrony (announced today) which is in Experimental, how can I do this without upgrading my entire system to Experimental? Thanks, Mike -- IBM: Incredibly Broad Monolopy 16:05:01 up 3 min, 1 user, load average: 1.73, 1.79, 0.78

Re: E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

2008-12-22 Thread M.Lewis
Zaki Akhmad wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 2:52 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: If you still have your terminal open, send the complete output of the "apt-get upgrade" run. Otherwise, try "apt-get upgrade" again. Here's the full version: # apt-get upg

Re: e2fsck /dev/md0 issues

2008-12-21 Thread M.Lewis
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Sunday 2008 December 21 15:00:44 Alex Samad wrote: On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 03:44:04AM -0600, M.Lewis wrote: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Sunday 21 December 2008, "M.Lewis" wrote about 'Re: e2fsck /dev/md0 issues': Maybe what I sh

Re: [OT]I just got a phish call!!!

2008-12-21 Thread M.Lewis
Paul Cartwright wrote: On Sat December 20 2008, Ron Johnson wrote: Without that explanation, which I knew already, could we safely assume you live in a church, Ron? ;-) Maybe it's because I haven't had my coffee yet, but I don't understand what you just wrote. your original post contained J

Re: LVM reorganization [follow-up]

2008-12-21 Thread M.Lewis
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Wednesday 2008 December 17 23:30:04 M.Lewis wrote: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Wednesday 2008 December 17 23:00:41 M.Lewis wrote: Given a Lenny LVM setup as follows: Is it possible to reorganize the current LVM to separate out say /var & /tmp into t

Re: e2fsck /dev/md0 issues

2008-12-21 Thread M.Lewis
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Sunday 21 December 2008, "M.Lewis" wrote about 'Re: e2fsck /dev/md0 issues': Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: Maybe what I should do is break the array and start over? Making sure that e2fsck on both drives is good to go beforehand of cour

Re: e2fsck /dev/md0 issues

2008-12-21 Thread M.Lewis
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Sunday 2008 December 21 01:02:04 M.Lewis wrote: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Saturday 2008 December 20 22:42:10 M.Lewis wrote: The filesystem size (according to the superblock) is 24419 blocks

Re: e2fsck /dev/md0 issues

2008-12-20 Thread M.Lewis
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Saturday 2008 December 20 22:42:10 M.Lewis wrote: The filesystem size (according to the superblock) is 24419 blocks ^ The physical size of the device is 244189984 blocks

e2fsck /dev/md0 issues

2008-12-20 Thread M.Lewis
I having an issue with my RAID array. I get some errors on boot, but the boot process is going beyond them and mounting the drive anyhow. So far as I can tell, all the data is present and readable. I would like to resolve these errors though. I'm not sure if it matters, but LVM is not install

Re: LVM reorganization

2008-12-18 Thread M.Lewis
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Wednesday 2008 December 17 23:30:04 M.Lewis wrote: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Wednesday 2008 December 17 23:00:41 M.Lewis wrote: Given a Lenny LVM setup as follows: rattler:~# lvs LV VG Attr LSize Origin Snap% Move Log Copy

Re: LVM reorganization

2008-12-17 Thread M.Lewis
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Thursday 18 December 2008, "M.Lewis" wrote about 'Re: LVM reorganization': Thanks Boyd. After reading through it a couple of times, it appears pretty straight forward. I've done it probably a dozen times now, and it's not hard

Re: LVM reorganization

2008-12-17 Thread M.Lewis
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Wednesday 2008 December 17 23:30:04 M.Lewis wrote: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Wednesday 2008 December 17 23:00:41 M.Lewis wrote: Given a Lenny LVM setup as follows: rattler:~# lvs LV VG Attr LSize Origin Snap% Move Log Copy

Re: LVM reorganization

2008-12-17 Thread M.Lewis
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Wednesday 2008 December 17 23:00:41 M.Lewis wrote: Given a Lenny LVM setup as follows: rattler:~# lvs LV VG Attr LSize Origin Snap% Move Log Copy% Convert home rattler -wi-ao 65.02G root rattler

LVM reorganization

2008-12-17 Thread M.Lewis
Given a Lenny LVM setup as follows: rattler:~# lvs LV VG Attr LSize Origin Snap% Move Log Copy% Convert home rattler -wi-ao 65.02G root rattler -wi-ao 6.68G swap_1 rattler -wi-ao 2.59G Is it possible to reorganiz

Re: Perl modules

2008-12-08 Thread M.Lewis
Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Mon, Dec 08, 2008 at 06:37:53PM -0900, Ken Irving wrote: On Mon, Dec 08, 2008 at 09:04:28PM -0600, M.Lewis wrote: Recently, I needed to install a perl module that I was not able to find with synaptic or aptitude using the 'normal' repositories. I believe th

Re: Perl modules

2008-12-08 Thread M.Lewis
Kelly Clowers wrote: On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 19:15, Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, 08 Dec 2008 21:04:28 -0600 "M.Lewis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Recently, I needed to install a perl module that I was not able to find with synaptic or aptitude using the &#

Perl modules

2008-12-08 Thread M.Lewis
Recently, I needed to install a perl module that I was not able to find with synaptic or aptitude using the 'normal' repositories. I believe the module was File::Find::Path. I know I can install this module via CPAN. Is this the recommended method when a module is not available in the 'norma

Re: Icedove and Iceweasel defaults {KDE}

2008-11-17 Thread M.Lewis
Johannes wrote: M.Lewis wrote: Where can you change the default browser that comes up when clicking a URL in Icedove? Icedove brings up Konqueror currently. IIRC as root do: # update-alternatives --config x-www-browser This worked fine! I don't know how to do that on a per-user

Re: Icedove and Iceweasel defaults {KDE}

2008-11-15 Thread M.Lewis
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Saturday 15 November 2008, "M.Lewis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Icedove and Iceweasel defaults {KDE}': Where can you change the default browser that comes up when clicking a URL in Icedove? Icedove brings up Konqueror currently.

Icedove and Iceweasel defaults {KDE}

2008-11-15 Thread M.Lewis
Where can you change the default browser that comes up when clicking a URL in Icedove? Icedove brings up Konqueror currently. Where can you change the default mailer that comes up when clicking a mail-to: link (or File | Send Link) in Iceweasel? Iceweasel currently brings up Evolution. I'v

Re: Preseeding

2008-11-14 Thread M.Lewis
Osamu Aoki wrote: Hi, Read following documents first please: http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/example-preseed.txt http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Preseed On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 03:49:07PM -0600, M.Lewis wrote: Is there a list for discussion of preseeding? If so, what is it

Preseeding

2008-11-12 Thread M.Lewis
Is there a list for discussion of preseeding? If so, what is it. Thanks, Mike -- Managing programmers is like herding cats. 15:45:01 up 22:34, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 Linux Registered User #241685 http://counter.li.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wit

Re: postfix can't send and receive mails

2008-11-10 Thread M.Lewis
Ron Johnson wrote: On 11/10/08 07:00, Rico Secada wrote: On Mon, 10 Nov 2008 05:38:21 -0600 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 11/10/08 04:19, Stephen Liu wrote: Hi folks, [snip] Nov 10 10:00:56 xen05 amavis[3329]: Internal decoder for .tnef Nov 10 10:00:56 xen05 amavis[3329]: No de

Re: Lenny install SATA+RAID1+LVM

2008-11-07 Thread M.Lewis
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 09:39:47AM -0600, M.Lewis wrote: Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 04:40:04AM -0600, M.Lewis wrote: I'm installing Lenny on a machine with a pair of 80GB SATA drives. I want to do a RAID1 during the install. Apparently this i

Re: Lenny install SATA+RAID1+LVM

2008-11-07 Thread M.Lewis
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 04:40:04AM -0600, M.Lewis wrote: I'm installing Lenny on a machine with a pair of 80GB SATA drives. I want to do a RAID1 during the install. Apparently this is not possible using the graphical install. Or else I have over looked it. Is th

Lenny install SATA+RAID1+LVM

2008-11-07 Thread M.Lewis
I'm installing Lenny on a machine with a pair of 80GB SATA drives. I want to do a RAID1 during the install. Apparently this is not possible using the graphical install. Or else I have over looked it. Is there a HOWTO somewhere describing this process? Google and searching the archives have p