Re: [SLUG] XBitHack
There is an add-on that allows a reply to list button to appear on the toolbar. I have just found it. Ken david wrote: Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: Hi Irma, Think about this for a second: if you can do that to other people, can't other people do that to you? Wouldn't it be annoying if everyone who sent you an e-mail thought that their message was more important than others, and so decided to make it show up in red in your inbox? Hi Sridhar Isn't it annoying when you think you have a reply to the thread of which you were the OP, and it turns out that someone has hijacked the thread without changing the subject line?? Ah etiquette, etiquette... It's ok though.. my tongue is in my cheek and I'm not *really* annoyed. :)--smiley David. PS.. and seeing that we have changed the subject... how do you make thudderbird reply to list? I can't find the function anywhere. Possibly because i'm stupid, I know. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] recovering xfs
I have a very large xfs file system that is corrupt and there is an IO error in the middle of the file system, xfs_repair crashes. A bit of reading and I have a solution, just thought I would put it out there in case I have forgotten something. Booting xeon server with 32 bit Ubuntu live CD. All the hard disks on new server in LVM giving me 3.76 TB. I am copying 3.3TB from the other server. First I need to grab a copy of the data across the network, from my new server I access the old server: ssh r...@server 'dd if=/dev/vg1/lv1 conv=noerror,sync' | dd of=/dev/vg/lv01 next I simply repair it xfs_repair /dev/vg/lv01 Mount it. I figure this bit is easy by my reading, Ubuntu handles xfs out of the box (read only so that it cannot be used as a proper server) I am reading from a 32 bit server and booting a Xeon server with 32 bit live CD. This means the NFS should match correctly. Is the above basically correct? Is there any hints that I might need. Ta Ken -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] recovering xfs
I'm actually not sure I'm reading this right, but I don't think you want to dd to an NFS share? Maybe you meant XFS should match correctly? If you're trying to do it over a network, I would have thought you'd have more luck by piping dd through an nc connection, then dd back to a disk on the target ie, on old server : dd if=/dev/vg1/lv1 conv=noerror,sync | nc NEWSERVER PORT on new server: nc -l PORT | dd of=/dev/vg/lv01 Also I'm not sure how the LVM is going to interact because I don't tend to use LVM on my production servers with XFS On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 7:14 PM, Ken Foskey fos...@tpg.com.au wrote: I have a very large xfs file system that is corrupt and there is an IO error in the middle of the file system, xfs_repair crashes. A bit of reading and I have a solution, just thought I would put it out there in case I have forgotten something. Booting xeon server with 32 bit Ubuntu live CD. All the hard disks on new server in LVM giving me 3.76 TB. I am copying 3.3TB from the other server. First I need to grab a copy of the data across the network, from my new server I access the old server: ssh r...@server 'dd if=/dev/vg1/lv1 conv=noerror,sync' | dd of=/dev/vg/lv01 next I simply repair it xfs_repair /dev/vg/lv01 Mount it. I figure this bit is easy by my reading, Ubuntu handles xfs out of the box (read only so that it cannot be used as a proper server) I am reading from a 32 bit server and booting a Xeon server with 32 bit live CD. This means the NFS should match correctly. Is the above basically correct? Is there any hints that I might need. Ta Ken -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] recovering xfs
Thanks for replying. nc in your command simply replaces ssh, so I think this is the same thing. I am not using nfs, I cannot mount anything so it is raw, going logical volume to logical volume. They are slightly different sizes, hope that will not kill anything. The server that is being copied originally had an LVM so there is no obvious conflict here.I don't care whether it is fast, it is a recovery operation not a prime server. Ta Ken On Wed, 2009-05-13 at 21:10 +1000, Tony Sceats wrote: I'm actually not sure I'm reading this right, but I don't think you want to dd to an NFS share? Maybe you meant XFS should match correctly? If you're trying to do it over a network, I would have thought you'd have more luck by piping dd through an nc connection, then dd back to a disk on the target ie, on old server : dd if=/dev/vg1/lv1 conv=noerror,sync | nc NEWSERVER PORT on new server: nc -l PORT | dd of=/dev/vg/lv01 Also I'm not sure how the LVM is going to interact because I don't tend to use LVM on my production servers with XFS On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 7:14 PM, Ken Foskey fos...@tpg.com.au wrote: I have a very large xfs file system that is corrupt and there is an IO error in the middle of the file system, xfs_repair crashes. A bit of reading and I have a solution, just thought I would put it out there in case I have forgotten something. Booting xeon server with 32 bit Ubuntu live CD. All the hard disks on new server in LVM giving me 3.76 TB. I am copying 3.3TB from the other server. First I need to grab a copy of the data across the network, from my new server I access the old server: ssh r...@server 'dd if=/dev/vg1/lv1 conv=noerror,sync' | dd of=/dev/vg/lv01 next I simply repair it xfs_repair /dev/vg/lv01 Mount it. I figure this bit is easy by my reading, Ubuntu handles xfs out of the box (read only so that it cannot be used as a proper server) I am reading from a 32 bit server and booting a Xeon server with 32 bit live CD. This means the NFS should match correctly. Is the above basically correct? Is there any hints that I might need. Ta Ken -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Web hosting recommendations
quote who=Mary Gardiner I've looked through the archives but haven't found a lot of relevant stuff: most people are looking for VPSes and/or hosting within Australia only. I'm after a web host for a work project. What I need: Taking into account the corrections in your followup, this sounds like a job for Dreamhost. Despite driving me absolutely batty, as a well-priced, shared hosting service for LAMPy stuff, their price to reliability ratio is hard to beat. They're very FLOSS-clueful too. - Jeff -- linux.conf.au 2010: Wellington, NZ http://www.penguinsvisiting.org.nz/ Great minds think different? -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] recovering xfs
ah, it appears as though I missed the close quote on your ssh command when I read it last night, and I also saw NFS, which was why I was a bit confused as to what you were trying :) On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 9:56 PM, Ken Foskey fos...@tpg.com.au wrote: Thanks for replying. nc in your command simply replaces ssh, so I think this is the same thing. I am not using nfs, I cannot mount anything so it is raw, going logical volume to logical volume. They are slightly different sizes, hope that will not kill anything. The server that is being copied originally had an LVM so there is no obvious conflict here.I don't care whether it is fast, it is a recovery operation not a prime server. Ta Ken On Wed, 2009-05-13 at 21:10 +1000, Tony Sceats wrote: I'm actually not sure I'm reading this right, but I don't think you want to dd to an NFS share? Maybe you meant XFS should match correctly? If you're trying to do it over a network, I would have thought you'd have more luck by piping dd through an nc connection, then dd back to a disk on the target ie, on old server : dd if=/dev/vg1/lv1 conv=noerror,sync | nc NEWSERVER PORT on new server: nc -l PORT | dd of=/dev/vg/lv01 Also I'm not sure how the LVM is going to interact because I don't tend to use LVM on my production servers with XFS On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 7:14 PM, Ken Foskey fos...@tpg.com.au wrote: I have a very large xfs file system that is corrupt and there is an IO error in the middle of the file system, xfs_repair crashes. A bit of reading and I have a solution, just thought I would put it out there in case I have forgotten something. Booting xeon server with 32 bit Ubuntu live CD. All the hard disks on new server in LVM giving me 3.76 TB. I am copying 3.3TB from the other server. First I need to grab a copy of the data across the network, from my new server I access the old server: ssh r...@server 'dd if=/dev/vg1/lv1 conv=noerror,sync' | dd of=/dev/vg/lv01 next I simply repair it xfs_repair /dev/vg/lv01 Mount it. I figure this bit is easy by my reading, Ubuntu handles xfs out of the box (read only so that it cannot be used as a proper server) I am reading from a 32 bit server and booting a Xeon server with 32 bit live CD. This means the NFS should match correctly. Is the above basically correct? Is there any hints that I might need. Ta Ken -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Re: Web hosting recommendations
Has anyone tried www.justhosting.com? They get great reviews, allow unlimited bandwidth and disk space, are hosted on Unix, and have an office in Adelaide... Peter C -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Re: Web hosting recommendations
Did you mean http://justhost.com? Cheers, Bernie. On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 9:47 AM, pe...@chubb.wattle.id.au wrote: Has anyone tried www.justhosting.com? They get great reviews, allow unlimited bandwidth and disk space, are hosted on Unix, and have an office in Adelaide... -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Re: Web hosting recommendations
Bernie == Bernie Pannell bern...@gmail.com writes: Bernie Did you mean http://justhost.com? Cheers, Bernie. Yes. Sorry. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Sound in Flash
Heracles wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi All, I've done everything I can think of, including googling, and still can't get sound in my Flash. They work perfectly through totem if I download them and then play them, but the one site that matters uses flash to set up the player then inserts the video and although I can see the video perfectly well, I get no sound at all. It should just be a case of installing the package libflashsupport -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] recovering xfs
Problem dd sat and looped on a single point last night. I have downloaded a statically linked version of dd_rescue and I am now trying this. Fingers crossed. ssh r...@server '/root/dd_rescue /dev/vg1/lv1 -' | cat /dev/vg1/lv1 It is coming up with this error though: dd_rescue: (info): ipos: 34031.5k, opos: 34031.5k, xferd: 34031.5k * errs: 7, errxfer: 3.5k, succxfer: 34028.0k +curr.rate:11628kB/s, avg.rate: 149kB/s, avg.load: 0.1% dd_rescue: (warning): /dev/vg1/lv1 (34031.5k): Invalid argument! -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] recovering removed files
Long story, but I have a photo that has been removed (rm file.jpg) on an ext3 filesystem, Ubuntu 8.10 The hard drive is NOT the root drive and it has been unmounted and remounted read only - # mount -t ext3 -o ro /dev/sdb1 /mountpoint. Nothing was written on the drive as far as I know before unmounting. The obvious question: how to attempt recovery? I've stumbled on a thing called ext3undel but it's not in the Ubuntu repositories, which made me suspicious. There are lots of google comments saying can't be done. What are my chances? any suggestions? Would be nice to have some success stories before I try the wrong thing and mess things up. thanks David. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] recovering xfs
And what is being logged in dmesg? Your kernel should be spewing a whole lot of error messages if your physical media is returning errors. Adrian On Thu, May 14, 2009, fos...@tpg.com.au wrote: Problem dd sat and looped on a single point last night. I have downloaded a statically linked version of dd_rescue and I am now trying this. Fingers crossed. ssh r...@server '/root/dd_rescue /dev/vg1/lv1 -' | cat /dev/vg1/lv1 It is coming up with this error though: dd_rescue: (info): ipos: 34031.5k, opos: 34031.5k, xferd: 34031.5k * errs: 7, errxfer: 3.5k, succxfer: 34028.0k +curr.rate:11628kB/s, avg.rate: 149kB/s, avg.load: 0.1% dd_rescue: (warning): /dev/vg1/lv1 (34031.5k): Invalid argument! -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- - Xenion - http://www.xenion.com.au/ - VPS Hosting - Commercial Squid Support - - $25/pm entry-level VPSes w/ capped bandwidth charges available in WA - -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] FINALISED - HD ( 1920 x 1080) monitor and Linux - advice pls.]
This AM drove to Alexandria and visited Allans Music ( waste of time) and had intended to visit Harris Technology (gone) which used to be next door. On way home I spied a small computer shop (also in Alexandria) which happened to have a BenQ E2400WD in stock, unopened. Pric quoted was $345, $85 and $200 cheaper than local shops, so I took it on the spot. Came home and plugged it in to my KVM switch via VGA and both PCs ( Kubuntu 8.10 and Xbuntu 7.10) found it immediately at the correct resolution of 1920 x 1200 - plus he Monitor is 16:9 and 1080p. I'm a happy camper, especially at that price. Thanks to all who replied to my original post. Bill -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] recovering xfs
Quoting Adrian Chadd adr...@creative.net.au: And what is being logged in dmesg? Your kernel should be spewing a whole lot of error messages if your physical media is returning errors. Still working on this, the whole thing appeared to lock up and we have rebooted.We have now replaced a drive in the raid and hopefully this will work better. Of course this is going to take ages to rebuild. Ta Ken -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] cannot boot Ubuntu with bios raid setting
I have a machine with 6 Harddrives sda = sdf and when I install Ubuntu desktop it will not boot. There is a bios setting for raid and if we set this on we see all 6 harddrives but the install will not boot. If we set it to not raid we see 4 harddrives and it will boot. Any suggestions? Ta Ken -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] FINALISED - HD ( 1920 x 1080) monitor and Linux - advice pls.]
2009/5/14 bill bi...@swiftdsl.com.au: This AM drove to Alexandria and visited Allans Music ( waste of time) and had intended to visit Harris Technology (gone) which used to be next door. On way home I spied a small computer shop (also in Alexandria) which happened to have a BenQ E2400WD in stock, unopened. Pric quoted was $345, $85 and $200 cheaper than local shops, so I took it on the spot. [snip] What was the shop in Alexandria? My usual is Megaware (near Green Square station) but I'd be interested if there was decent competetition for them in the area... cheers, Owen. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] recovering xfs
On Thu, May 14, 2009, fos...@tpg.com.au wrote: Still working on this, the whole thing appeared to lock up and we have rebooted.We have now replaced a drive in the raid and hopefully this will work better. Of course this is going to take ages to rebuild. lets hope you don't throw another disk during the rebuild with all of that parallel IO going on. :P Adrian -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] recovering removed files
2009/5/14 david da...@kenpro.com.au: Long story, but I have a photo that has been removed (rm file.jpg) on an ext3 filesystem, Ubuntu 8.10 The hard drive is NOT the root drive and it has been unmounted and remounted read only - # mount -t ext3 -o ro /dev/sdb1 /mountpoint. Nothing was written on the drive as far as I know before unmounting. The obvious question: how to attempt recovery? I've stumbled on a thing called ext3undel but it's not in the Ubuntu repositories, which made me suspicious. There are lots of google comments saying can't be done. What are my chances? any suggestions? Would be nice to have some success stories before I try the wrong thing and mess things up. I have had success in the past using autopsy/sleuthkit (http://www.sleuthkit.org) There's a slight learning curve, but it should be able to do what you ask if the data still exists. cheers, Owen. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
