Re: Sync two disks and hot swap

2017-11-09 Thread David Christensen
On 11/09/17 14:46, Bob Weber wrote: On 11/9/17 2:01 AM, David Christensen wrote: Okay.  What RAID technology were you using -- LVM, mdadm, btrfs, ZFS, other? I use software raid with mdadm.  Its pretty forgiving with powering down and removing a drive (after sync) and growing the array back do

Re: Talking about RAID - disks with same id

2017-11-09 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
deloptes writes: > Hi, > I noticed recently by accident that when I read/write from the oldest raid > disks I have - only one of the tray leds blinks. Of course the led could be > damaged, but rather not, so looking into it I found that both disks in > question return same UUID. So I am concerned

Re: Sync two disks and hot swap

2017-11-09 Thread Bob Weber
On 11/9/17 2:01 AM, David Christensen wrote: > On 11/08/17 17:44, Bob Weber wrote: >> On 11/8/17 5:59 PM, David Christensen wrote: >>> I have read articles about building a RAID 1 with three drives, migrating in >>> data, pulling one drive and placing it off-site, operating in degraded mode >>> on

Re: Talking about RAID - disks with same id

2017-11-09 Thread David Christensen
On 11/09/17 13:04, deloptes wrote: David Christensen wrote: What RAID technology are you using? Linux software raid - kernel is 4.12.10 Most people call it 'mdadm', after the command-line tool. I am running the same, but on Debian "stable": 2017-11-09 14:00:32 root@dipsy ~ # dpkg-query -

Re: Talking about RAID - disks with same id

2017-11-09 Thread deloptes
Tobx wrote: > You can change your partition UUID with fdisk (press x for extra > functionality). An easy way to create a random UUID is: > > $ cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/uuid > > If you have the chance to test this, I would give it a try. Thanks - good idea - I guess I'll first do a backup :)

Re: Talking about RAID - disks with same id

2017-11-09 Thread deloptes
Thank you for the kind answer. Here are my toughts David Christensen wrote: > Answering that question definitively would involve reviewing the source > code of all the software and firmware on your computer for anything that > is affected, directly or indirectly, by UUID's or PARTUUID's. > > >

Re: Ethernet card locking up when acting as virtual bridge

2017-11-09 Thread Michael Stone
On Thu, Nov 09, 2017 at 12:55:05PM -0500, Dan Ritter wrote: On Wed, Nov 08, 2017 at 03:21:00PM -0800, David Christensen wrote: On 11/08/17 02:54, Andrew Wood wrote: > 3Com Etherlink Model 3C905C That card is *old* -- it brings back memories. :-) And, 3Com is gone. Is there any FOSS support for

Re: How to Clone a RAID1 Box to Another with Drives Twice As Big?

2017-11-09 Thread Michael Stone
On Thu, Nov 09, 2017 at 01:33:51PM -0500, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: On Thu, Nov 09, 2017 at 12:25:17PM -0600, Kent West wrote: I have a Debian Stable box with two 1TB drives, set up as a mirrored RAID1 setup. I have a replacement box with two 2TB drives. How do I best clone the old

Re: Sync two disks and hot swap

2017-11-09 Thread Michael Stone
On Thu, Nov 09, 2017 at 10:54:57AM -0800, David Christensen wrote: There are many choices for software: I didn't get the impression it's a software question as much as a "how does unskilled/unprivileged person know when it's ok to pull out the drive" question, because the actual backing up is

Re: Reproducible bug

2017-11-09 Thread Laurent Lyaudet
>On Wed, Nov 08, 2017 at 08:19:11PM +0100, Laurent Lyaudet wrote: >>Hello, >> >>I found a reproducible bug in latest stable Debian on my laptop. >>My install is up-to-date with latest security updates (that's the first >>thing I do anytime I start my laptop). >>I'm using Gnome.

Re: Ethernet card locking up when acting as virtual bridge

2017-11-09 Thread David Christensen
On 11/09/17 09:55, Dan Ritter wrote: On Wed, Nov 08, 2017 at 03:21:00PM -0800, David Christensen wrote: On 11/08/17 02:54, Andrew Wood wrote: 3Com Etherlink Model 3C905C That card is *old* -- it brings back memories. :-) And, 3Com is gone. Is there any FOSS support for 3Com stuff? This is

Re: How to Clone a RAID1 Box to Another with Drives Twice As Big?

2017-11-09 Thread David Christensen
On 11/09/17 10:33, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: On Thu, Nov 09, 2017 at 12:25:17PM -0600, Kent West wrote: I have a Debian Stable box with two 1TB drives, set up as a mirrored RAID1 setup. I have a replacement box with two 2TB drives. How do I best clone the old machine to the new

Re: Sync two disks and hot swap

2017-11-09 Thread David Christensen
On 11/09/17 04:35, Michael Stone wrote: On Thu, Nov 09, 2017 at 10:13:17AM +0100, Dominik George wrote: what is the goal in having an identical copy of the disk? It's not even so much that. It's that the person who will be changing the disks will be hardly capable of just that, and will not g

Re: Seems i broke my debian :c help me please

2017-11-09 Thread Brian
On Thu 09 Nov 2017 at 17:42:39 +0600, Evgeny wrote: > Hello all. I've just change switched my debian from jessie to testing and > done > > apt-get update > apt-get dist-upgrade > > And while packages were installing free space ended. > Now when I try to use apt-get i have an error: > > E: Unabl

Re: How to Clone a RAID1 Box to Another with Drives Twice As Big?

2017-11-09 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Thu, Nov 09, 2017 at 12:25:17PM -0600, Kent West wrote: >I have a Debian Stable box with two 1TB drives, set up as a mirrored RAID1 >setup. > >I have a replacement box with two 2TB drives. > >How do I best clone the old machine to the new, with minimal (or better, >no) down

How to Clone a RAID1 Box to Another with Drives Twice As Big?

2017-11-09 Thread Kent West
I have a Debian Stable box with two 1TB drives, set up as a mirrored RAID1 setup. I have a replacement box with two 2TB drives. How do I best clone the old machine to the new, with minimal (or better, no) downtime, being able to wind up with double the drive space on the new box? Thanks! -- Ke

Re: Talking about RAID - disks with same id

2017-11-09 Thread David Christensen
On 11/08/17 23:17, deloptes wrote: David Christensen wrote: While trouble-shooting PEBKAS issues is important to me, I have found that my attempts at trouble-shooting GNU/Linux issues is usually an exercise in futility.  The best I can hope for is finding a way to reproduce the issue and filing

Re: Ethernet card locking up when acting as virtual bridge

2017-11-09 Thread Dan Ritter
On Wed, Nov 08, 2017 at 03:21:00PM -0800, David Christensen wrote: > On 11/08/17 02:54, Andrew Wood wrote: > > 3Com Etherlink Model 3C905C > > That card is *old* -- it brings back memories. :-) And, 3Com is gone. Is > there any FOSS support for 3Com stuff? This is one of the classic fast-etherne

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Re: Ethernet card locking up when acting as virtual bridge

2017-11-09 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 5:21 PM, David Christensen wrote: > On 11/08/17 02:54, Andrew Wood wrote: > >> 3Com Etherlink Model 3C905C >> > > That card is *old* -- it brings back memories. :-) And, 3Com is gone. Is > there any FOSS support for 3Com stuff? You know you're getting old when they put p

Re: Handhelds that conviently run Debian

2017-11-09 Thread David Wright
On Thu 09 Nov 2017 at 10:17:12 (+0200), David Baron wrote: > I have had Debian up on my Xiamo smartphone. I believe it uses the existing > kernel. Had a xwindows as well but did not like the interface. In the end, > question was what to do with it. Debian on a phone isn't my priority, but this G

Re: Handhelds that conviently run Debian

2017-11-09 Thread Stefan Monnier
> I have had Debian up on my Xiamo smartphone. I believe it uses the existing > kernel. Had a xwindows as well but did not like the interface. In the end, > question was what to do with it. One of the first things I do with a Debian install on those devices: run an sshd daemon which lets me rsyncd

Re: How to compile color database?

2017-11-09 Thread Fred
On 11/08/2017 10:30 PM, Richard Hector wrote: On 09/11/17 11:41, Fred wrote: Hello, After editing /usr/share/X11/rgb.txt what program needs to run to recompile the color database? According to google it should be rgb < rgb.txt but the rgb program is nowhere to be found. Is it necessary? An ol

Re: RAID 5 array with journal device does not automatically assemble at boot

2017-11-09 Thread Tobx
On 8. Nov 2017, at 21:58, deloptes wrote: > > Tobx wrote: > >> VERBOSE=false > > perhaps set to true and see what it says. The comment to this option states: # if this variable is set to true, mdadm will be a little more verbose e.g. # when creating the initramfs. I tried that, but I did

Re: Sync two disks and hot swap

2017-11-09 Thread Michael Stone
On Thu, Nov 09, 2017 at 10:13:17AM +0100, Dominik George wrote: what is the goal in having an identical copy of the disk? It's not even so much that. It's that the person who will be changing the disks will be hardly capable of just that, and will not get anything close to root access to the m

Re: Seems i broke my debian :c help me please

2017-11-09 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Nov 09, 2017 at 05:42:39PM +0600, Evgeny wrote: > Hello all. I've just change switched my debian from jessie to testing and > done > > apt-get update > apt-get dist-upgrade > > And while packages were installing free space ended. > Now when I

Seems i broke my debian :c help me please

2017-11-09 Thread Evgeny
Hello all. I've just change switched my debian from jessie to testing and done apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade And while packages were installing free space ended. Now when I try to use apt-get i have an error: E: Unable to parse package file /var/lib/apt/extended_states (1) when I try "apt

Re: My Problem with Stretch - thin mosquito-like noise from HDD partition

2017-11-09 Thread Tibor Mate
Hello everebody, few months ago I have reported my problem with stretch, when a thin - mosquito-like noise coming from somewhere from the laptop and I have found that is a probably a matter of HDD because it stop for few seconds when I mounted/unmounted the partition of my seconds disk (system on S

Re: Talking about RAID - disks with same id

2017-11-09 Thread Tobx
On 8. Nov 2017, at 22:40, deloptes wrote: > How is this possible and how to solve it - I would simply add 3rd 500MB disk > to the raid and remove one of the others, but still what is the impact of > this (stupid) coincidence … I would not call it coincidence, what are the odds? There must be a r

Re: Sync two disks and hot swap

2017-11-09 Thread Dominik George
> what is the goal in having an identical copy of the disk? It's not even so much that. It's that the person who will be changing the disks will be hardly capable of just that, and will not get anything close to root access to the machine. And I am afraid that all that complexity around automoun

Re: Handhelds that conviently run Debian

2017-11-09 Thread David Baron
I have had Debian up on my Xiamo smartphone. I believe it uses the existing kernel. Had a xwindows as well but did not like the interface. In the end, question was what to do with it.