Re: Adding Disks to system
On 28/04/10 14:00, Chris Martin wrote: Peter. This the short version... Contact me if you need more specific instructions A few suggestions, given that this was the short version. :-) Once you have the drive installed. use gparted - this is a GUI tool that will partition and format the new disk I'm not sure if gparted allows you to specify a label for the filesystem. If it doesn't, then you can add one later (with e2label), but i would strongly recommend adding a label, since then it makes no difference where the disk is connected. I would suggest a label of something like /home. The mount it in a convenient location (say /mnt) Copy your existing /home to /mnt - takeing care to preserve permissions and ownership rsync is probably the best way to do this: you would run rsync -SHavx /home/ /mnt/ (don't miss the trailing slashes). umount /mnt, mount your drive as /home - this will replace the directory /home with the content of the drive (however the original data in /home will still be preserved, just not accessible while the drive is mounted) test.. test.. test.. if all goes well, unmount /home, double check it is unmounted ... and check again delete the origional /home contents mount the drive as /home (again) Great advice there - mounting over the contents allows an absolutely painless recovery method if it doesn't work: just unmount the filesystem and you're back exactly where you were. edit /etc/fstab to make the change persistant across reboot and have /home mounted automatically on reboot When you edit fstab, use LABEL=/home for the device instead of /dev/sdb1 or whatever you've been using so far. That way, you can move the drive around without any issues. Paul attachment: paul.vcf-- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
Query: 3 Prepaid Mobile Broadband USB Dongles..
Greetings, I would like to know if anyone can recommend any of the Wireless USB Modems currently available from 3's prepaid service. I currently have a Internst Key Modem - MF627. It works on a laptop, but it has a 'shared' card slot, which needs to be unmounted, and the device reset, before things work smoothly. (so it can't be used to give internet access to a server, for instance.) So.. I'm looking for recommended alternatives. (The simpler the better). Cheers, Paul -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
Re: Query: 3 Prepaid Mobile Broadband USB Dongles..
On 30 April 2010 13:20, Paul Schulz p...@mawsonlakes.org wrote: Greetings, I would like to know if anyone can recommend any of the Wireless USB Modems currently available from 3's prepaid service. I currently have a Internst Key Modem - MF627. It works on a laptop, but it has a 'shared' card slot, which needs to be unmounted, and the device reset, before things work smoothly. (so it can't be used to give internet access to a server, for instance.) So.. I'm looking for recommended alternatives. (The simpler the better). Cheers, Paul Hi Paul I have a couple of ZTE MF262's that I have disabled the CDRUN on, and I use them in a pair of servers for internet and sending sms's. I found out how to disable it at www.matt-barrett.com/?p=6 at steps 1, 2 3. From Linux it can be done using screen (for reasonable terminal skill level) after unmounting and resetting. My notes as follows: ~# screen /dev/ttyUSB1 ATZ (Should return OK) AT+ZOPRT=5 (Should return OK) AT+ZCDRUN=8 (Should return Close autorun state result(0:FAIL 1:SUCCESS):1) Ctrl-A k y (To kill the window and exit screen) The device will now be in plain of modem mode. Enjoy. To turn CDRUN back on, rerun the above commands with CDRUN=9 instead or CDRUN=8. - Karl -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
Re: Query: 3 Prepaid Mobile Broadband USB Dongles..
On 30 April 2010 12:50, Paul Schulz p...@mawsonlakes.org wrote: Greetings, I would like to know if anyone can recommend any of the Wireless USB Modems currently available from 3's prepaid service. I currently have a Internst Key Modem - MF627. It works on a laptop, but it has a 'shared' card slot, which needs to be unmounted, and the device reset, before things work smoothly. (so it can't be used to give internet access to a server, for instance.) So.. I'm looking for recommended alternatives. (The simpler the better). Hi Paul, E1762 3G broadband dongles are good choice imho Regards Dale -- [WWW] http://quail.southernvaleslug.org/ The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them - Albert Einstein -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
