Fedora 22 - syslog rotating but new old files being updated!

2015-06-25 Thread Philip Rhoades
ot 725768 Jun 26 15:31 /var/log/cron-20150624 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jun 24 03:15 /var/log/cron-20150625 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jun 25 03:27 /var/log/cron-20150626 -rw--- 1 root root 0 Jun 26 03:33 /var/log/maillog -rw---. 1 root root 0 Apr 16 09:15 /var/l

Re: managing the swap space size on fedora

2015-06-25 Thread Ed Greshko
On 06/26/15 12:57, Angelo Moreschini wrote: > # lvresize --size 651G /dev/fedora_localhost/homeworked fine.. > > > And now pvscan give me 220 G free . > > > But now I have also problem growing the swap partition: > > The command > pvresize --size 20G /dev/fedora_localhost-

Re: managing the swap space size on fedora

2015-06-25 Thread Angelo Moreschini
Thank you Dario, # lvresize --size 651G /dev/fedora_localhost/homeworked fine.. And now pvscan give me 220 G free . But now I have also problem growing the swap partition: The command pvresize --size 20G /dev/fedora_localhost-swap give me another error : "prvresize u

Re: Strange booting problem

2015-06-25 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 06/25/2015 03:55 PM, jd1008 wrote: OK, but since this drive is my only backup drive, I feel I cannot run dd to clobber those 466 bytes :( Too risky, even if I feel nothing can go wrong, but ... murphy's law Re: sda1: here is the output: dd if=/dev/sda bs=2 count=1 skip=255 2>/dev/null |

Re:[SOLVED] F22 rsyslogd writes to a dated file name...

2015-06-25 Thread dwoody5654
On 06/25/2015 09:10 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 06/26/15 09:49, dwoody5654 wrote: The following is a current list of the messages file in /var/log: -rw---. 1 root root 104339300 Jun 20 10:27 messages-20150614 -rw--- 1 root root 0 Jun 22 03:30 messages -rw--- 1 root ro

Re: F22 rsyslogd writes to a dated file name...

2015-06-25 Thread Ed Greshko
On 06/26/15 09:49, dwoody5654 wrote: > The following is a current list of the messages file in /var/log: > > -rw---. 1 root root 104339300 Jun 20 10:27 messages-20150614 > -rw--- 1 root root 0 Jun 22 03:30 messages > -rw--- 1 root root 36077670 Jun 25 20:25 messages-2

F22 rsyslogd writes to a dated file name...

2015-06-25 Thread dwoody5654
The following is a current list of the messages file in /var/log: -rw---. 1 root root 104339300 Jun 20 10:27 messages-20150614 -rw--- 1 root root 0 Jun 22 03:30 messages -rw--- 1 root root 36077670 Jun 25 20:25 messages-20150622 The other log files are treated simi

Re: Strange booting problem

2015-06-25 Thread jd1008
On 06/25/2015 04:26 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote: On 06/25/2015 02:51 PM, jd1008 wrote: Is the; \0 305 033 the cause of the problem for BIOS? Possibly? Though, I should have also suggested that you check bytes at 0x1FE and 0x1FF: # dd if=/dev/sda bs=2 count=1 skip=255 2>/dev/null |

Re: managing the swap space size on fedora

2015-06-25 Thread Dario Lesca
Il giorno gio, 25/06/2015 alle 19.55 +0300, Angelo Moreschini ha scritto: > lvm lvreduce -L650 G /dev/fedora_localhost After you have reduce the ext4 filesystem: # resize2fs /dev/fedora_localhost/home 650G you can reduce the lv size: # lvresize --size 651G /dev/fedora_localhost/home -- Dario

Re: Strange booting problem

2015-06-25 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 06/25/2015 02:51 PM, jd1008 wrote: Is the; \0 305 033 the cause of the problem for BIOS? Possibly? Though, I should have also suggested that you check bytes at 0x1FE and 0x1FF: # dd if=/dev/sda bs=2 count=1 skip=255 2>/dev/null | od -x 000 aa55 002 Those bytes are a sig

Re: Strange booting problem

2015-06-25 Thread jd1008
On 06/25/2015 03:32 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote: On 06/25/2015 11:33 AM, jd1008 wrote: I bought the usb drive brand new and had not installed anything on it. Just partitioned it and used it. So, how could it contain any boot code? Is this what manufacturers do by default? I had not encountered th

Re: Strange booting problem

2015-06-25 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 06/25/2015 11:33 AM, jd1008 wrote: I bought the usb drive brand new and had not installed anything on it. Just partitioned it and used it. So, how could it contain any boot code? Is this what manufacturers do by default? I had not encountered this issue you raise before. Have a look at it:

Re: Strange booting problem

2015-06-25 Thread jd1008
On 06/25/2015 11:22 AM, Gordon Messmer wrote: On 06/24/2015 05:47 PM, jd1008 wrote: Well, that is strange!!! It really says that BIOS is busted and does not have the good sense to realize the drive is not bootable - just as in the case of having an audio CD in the CD drive, and it ignores the

Re: managing the swap space size on fedora

2015-06-25 Thread Mike Wright
On 06/25/2015 09:55 AM, Angelo Moreschini wrote: for what you says, the path of Volume Group should be /dev/fedora_localhost... but when I use it get the error Path required for Logical Volume "fedora_localhost" Please provide a volume group name. to r

Re: Strange booting problem

2015-06-25 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 06/24/2015 05:47 PM, jd1008 wrote: Well, that is strange!!! It really says that BIOS is busted and does not have the good sense to realize the drive is not bootable - just as in the case of having an audio CD in the CD drive, and it ignores the presenc of the audio CD and moves on to the next

Re: managing the swap space size on fedora

2015-06-25 Thread Angelo Moreschini
for what you says, the path of Volume Group should be /dev/fedora_localhost... but when I use it get the error Path required for Logical Volume "fedora_localhost" Please provide a volume group name. to resize the volume group I use the command: lvm lvred

Re: managing the swap space size on fedora

2015-06-25 Thread Mike Wright
On 06/25/2015 08:42 AM, Angelo Moreschini wrote: I did it and I found three sections (one section for each logical volume : root, home, swap). example: ..Logical Volume LV Path /dev/fedora_localhost//root LV Name root VG Namefedora_localhost LV UUID xyz..

Re: managing the swap space size on fedora

2015-06-25 Thread Angelo Moreschini
I did it and I found three sections (one section for each logical volume : root, home, swap). example: ..Logical Volume LV Path /dev/fedora_localhost//root LV Name root VG Namefedora_localhost LV UUID xyz - In each of these sections

Re: managing the swap space size on fedora

2015-06-25 Thread mike
On 06/25/2015 04:36 AM, Angelo Moreschini wrote: in order to grow the size of the swap partition, I already resized the file system of partition where is LVM... (resize2fs -p /dev/mapper/fedora_localhost-home) but now I have problems to reduce the volume of the volume group. With the command: l

Re: managing the swap space size on fedora

2015-06-25 Thread Ed Greshko
On 06/25/15 19:36, Angelo Moreschini wrote: > I get the message "path required for Logical Volume "/fedora_localhost" > Please provide a volume group name. Use Konsole output lvdisplay to show the LV Path and the VG Name -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change

Re: Strange booting problem

2015-06-25 Thread Tim
On Wed, 2015-06-24 at 18:36 -0600, jd1008 wrote: > OK, so how long before bios times out and move on > to the internal HD? The usb drive, which is > NOT bootable, has no booter installed, and > neither one of it's partitions are bootable: Some BIOSs will not do that. I have one PC that cannot be

Re: secure erase drive errors

2015-06-25 Thread Tim
On Wed, 2015-06-24 at 11:46 -0600, jd1008 wrote: > I will try to 'entertain' and 'educate' myself by surgically > dismantling the beast. In fact I would also like to give the ROMs to a > friend (HW and FW engineer) who has equipment to read the ROMs, and > disassemble the contents. Actually, that

Re: managing the swap space size on fedora

2015-06-25 Thread Angelo Moreschini
in order to grow the size of the swap partition, I already resized the file system of partition where is LVM... (resize2fs -p /dev/mapper/fedora_localhost-home) but now I have problems to reduce the volume of the volume group. With the command: lvm lvrdeuce -L 650G /dev/fedora_locahost =