Re: Moving LVM volume?

2015-01-02 Thread Tapani Tarvainen
introduced in HP-UX. It's a major boon in systems with multiple disks and long lifetimes, less so in workstations - although I find it useful enough even in them, as disks tend to need replacing if only because they get too small, and it's nice to be able to do that without much downtime.) -- Tapani

Re: Any advice for a user about to use LVM for the first time?

2015-01-02 Thread Tapani Tarvainen
tend to use raid whenever I can, that is, in almost every machine with enough room for disks, and raid1, raid6 or raid10, sometimes raid0 when speed is crucial but data is expendable (cheap to regenerate); raid5 I try to avoid. -- Tapani Tarvainen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: Moving LVM volume?

2015-01-01 Thread Tapani Tarvainen
to mess things up), reboot, realize you've messed up, go to step (3). :-) -- Tapani Tarvainen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150101101305.ga2

Re: Bash Script for Mail sending Check

2009-04-18 Thread Tapani Tarvainen
the mail and waiting for reply or something.) -- Tapani Tarvainen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Bash Script for Mail sending Check

2009-04-16 Thread Tapani Tarvainen
$( (sleep 5; echo quit; ps |awk '/telnet/{print kill $1}' |sh) | telnet 192.168.0.20 25 2- ) in *' 220 '*) echo Success ;; *)echo Failed ;; esac -- Tapani Tarvainen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: Bash Script for Mail sending Check

2009-04-16 Thread Tapani Tarvainen
telnetting to it. -- Tapani Tarvainen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Bash Script for Mail sending Check

2009-04-16 Thread Tapani Tarvainen
tools. -- Tapani Tarvainen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Bash Script for Mail sending Check

2009-04-15 Thread Tapani Tarvainen
Failed ;; esac -- Tapani Tarvainen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: how can i turn /dev/null into an MTA?

2009-04-15 Thread Tapani Tarvainen
). -- Tapani Tarvainen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Bash Script for Mail sending Check

2009-04-15 Thread Tapani Tarvainen
known to be too impatient. -- Tapani Tarvainen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

GlusterFS (was Re: WinBlow$ Home Server equivalent)

2009-04-12 Thread Tapani Tarvainen
it that way make sense? -- Tapani Tarvainen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: WinBlow$ Home Server equivalent

2009-04-11 Thread Tapani Tarvainen
of a partially lost lv is rather painful. And of course raid/mirroring helps - with software raid as well as with lvm mirroring you can do it even with disks of different sizes. -- Tapani Tarvainen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: boot failure diagnostics

2009-04-11 Thread Tapani Tarvainen
/ -- Tapani Tarvainen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: WinBlow$ Home Server equivalent

2009-04-11 Thread Tapani Tarvainen
to partition them into even more pieces and raid them separately.) If you want to stick to one raid1 array it is of course also possible: mdadm --grow and pvresize are what you need. -- Tapani Tarvainen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: Suggestions for multilevel backup of single machine?

2009-04-11 Thread Tapani Tarvainen
for doing (2)? I'm using rsnapshot, and given what you told of your setup, I think you'd be happy with it, too. -- Tapani Tarvainen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: WinBlow$ Home Server equivalent

2009-04-11 Thread Tapani Tarvainen
of the file content - not fun. With a binary file it would've been all but impossible. -- Tapani Tarvainen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: WinBlow$ Home Server equivalent

2009-04-11 Thread Tapani Tarvainen
. What I have seen is news headings like Windows Home Server Bug Could Lead To Data Loss and Shared Folders Problem While Removing Physically Failed Hard Drive in Windows Home Server. If someone has actual experience about dealing with lost disk in WHS, please tell us. -- Tapani Tarvainen

Re: WinBlow$ Home Server equivalent

2009-04-10 Thread Tapani Tarvainen
of course is not the same thing: ease of use is the whole selling point of Windows Home Server. I guess the closest Linux equivalent would be Openfiler (www.openfiler.com), but I don't know of any separate disk management GUI that could be used in Debian. -- Tapani Tarvainen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Advice on raid/lvm

2009-04-09 Thread Tapani Tarvainen
/boot. If you are making separate /boot, you might as well put / under LVM (which is what I'd do - and indeed what I have done with just about every machine I have installed since I've forgotten when). -- Tapani Tarvainen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Advice on raid/lvm

2009-04-09 Thread Tapani Tarvainen
increase complexity and require learning some new tricks, but they're well worth the trouble if you manage any system more complex than a simple workstation, IMHO. -- Tapani Tarvainen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Advice on raid/lvm

2009-04-09 Thread Tapani Tarvainen
(or rather, encrypt mdadm devices used as lvm physical volumes and put / in there), and then there's no choice. -- Tapani Tarvainen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Disk drive recovery help

2009-04-09 Thread Tapani Tarvainen
in a critical place in the disk. -- Tapani Tarvainen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Advice on raid/lvm

2009-04-09 Thread Tapani Tarvainen
and increased complexity, if you are using LVM anyway. Capacity can be dynamically added with pairs of disks. Yes. I'd prefer that if speed isn't critical. -- Tapani Tarvainen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Advice on raid/lvm

2009-04-09 Thread Tapani Tarvainen
. There are situations where the advantages of lvm are not important and its complexity may be a reason to avoid it. I think they're rare, but my view may be biased by the fact I've used lvm for so long that I no longer remember it ever being difficult. :-) -- Tapani Tarvainen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Advice on raid/lvm

2009-04-09 Thread Tapani Tarvainen
doubles, taking /lib to 340MB or thereabouts. I do't see it at all impossible that the 500MB I have for / there now will get too small before the machine is retired. -- Tapani Tarvainen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Advice on raid/lvm

2009-04-09 Thread Tapani Tarvainen
to go with the former. There wasn't much difference in speed as I recall, but md allowed making bootable raid1 and it seemed better supported in Linux. -- Tapani Tarvainen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: Advice on raid/lvm

2009-04-09 Thread Tapani Tarvainen
difference whether physical volumes are disks or disk pairs. Anybody want to claim being a newbie and having an opinion here? -- Tapani Tarvainen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Advice on raid/lvm

2009-04-08 Thread Tapani Tarvainen
system presently on the RAID5? -- Tapani Tarvainen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Advice on raid/lvm

2009-04-08 Thread Tapani Tarvainen
at hand, but I think rebuilding 3x500GB RAID5 would take longer than 2x1TB RAID1. So 2x1TB as RAID1 is safer than 3x500GB as RAID5. -- Tapani Tarvainen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Advice on raid/lvm

2009-04-08 Thread Tapani Tarvainen
compromise between cost, reliability, speed and simplicity under a wide range of requirements. -- Tapani Tarvainen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: lvm and multiboot

2009-04-03 Thread Tapani Tarvainen
sizes so that you can later combine them in various ways. -- Tapani Tarvainen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Debian RAM supporting.

2009-04-01 Thread Tapani Tarvainen
processor installed in debian? cat /proc/cpuinfo -- Tapani Tarvainen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Debian RAM supporting.

2009-04-01 Thread Tapani Tarvainen
ds_cpl cid is it ok? for 64 bit Yes. The lm in the flags list means long mode = x86-64. -- Tapani Tarvainen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Why no Skype packages?

2009-04-01 Thread Tapani Tarvainen
Skype calls. Whether it's any better than Skype, well, depends. -- Tapani Tarvainen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: OT: eSATA card/chip opinions

2009-04-01 Thread Tapani Tarvainen
(don't know about this particular one). StarTech 2 Port PCI-Express eSATA/SATA (1 Int + 1 Ext) Card Model PEXESATA2I http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815158095 (uses (jmicron) AHCI) No experience with this one. -- Tapani Tarvainen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user

Re: Debian RAM supporting.

2009-04-01 Thread Tapani Tarvainen
if you are buying a new machine and plan to have over 4GB of RAM, a 64-bit CPU and OS would be preferable. -- Tapani Tarvainen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Resizing LVM partition

2009-03-29 Thread Tapani Tarvainen
space at the end of the partition, and pvresize will claim it. At least that's how it works with normal disks, I don't know if your hardware RAID does something strange. -- Tapani Tarvainen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Resizing LVM partition

2009-03-28 Thread Tapani Tarvainen
(including things I've made by forgetting something) may result in loss of data. Fresh backup before starting is recommended. -- Tapani Tarvainen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Resizing LVM partition

2009-03-27 Thread Tapani Tarvainen
another LVM partition and add it to the existing volume group (pvcreate, vgextend). If there is some reason that won't do what you want, I'm curious to hear what it is. -- Tapani Tarvainen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: configure firewall in etch

2009-03-26 Thread Tapani Tarvainen
to use full path for ifconfig, i.e. /sbin/ifconfig, as /sbin may not be in $PATH. -- Tapani Tarvainen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: [OT] Cron and day of the week

2009-03-25 Thread Tapani Tarvainen
on Gnu date (but that's what Debian uses, so it's appropriate here): date --date week gives the date one week from now, and if the month is different, today is the last Monday. -- Tapani Tarvainen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: about ntp

2009-03-25 Thread Tapani Tarvainen
gives up before getting the reply. Leo, try europe.pool.ntp.org instead, and if it fails, try again with 0.europe.pool.ntp.org, 1.europe.pool.ntp.org c up to 3. -- Tapani Tarvainen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Delete 4 million files

2009-03-25 Thread Tapani Tarvainen
by the fact that filenames were short (most 12 characters with the directory name), but the speedup over -exec is still rather impressive. If anyone can come up with a scenario where -exec is significantly faster than xargs, I'd be interested. -- Tapani Tarvainen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Delete 4 million files

2009-03-24 Thread Tapani Tarvainen
to remove everything in the directory, the find version could be speeded significantly by using xargs, i.e., find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 rm This is especially useful if you want to remove files selecticely instead of everything at once. -- Tapani Tarvainen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Re: users backup (will change the root hard disk)

2009-03-23 Thread Tapani Tarvainen
pvmove - with hotswap disks you could even replace the root disk without booting. -- Tapani Tarvainen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: which package can display chart?

2009-03-23 Thread Tapani Tarvainen
, your system will be significantly more vulnerable than if you do. -- Tapani Tarvainen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

cryptdisks lvm2 startup sequence

2009-03-22 Thread Tapani Tarvainen
-stage cryptdisk startup sequence like I do, or in some other way that opens encrypted LVM volumes only at the late cryptdisk startup script? If it's just me I guess I'm better off messing with rc.local, otherwise I'll consider making a bug report/enhancement request. -- Tapani Tarvainen

Re: SOLVED Re: Lenny won't install on an old Pentium that used to run Etch. Try 2

2009-03-22 Thread Tapani Tarvainen
of tweaking it's now running happily as a DNS server and mail relay. The biggest memory hog was rsyslogd, but it's memory footprint shrunk from about 28MB down to 4MB simply by adding 'ulimit -s 128' to /etc/default/rsyslog. -- Tapani Tarvainen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

BUG: ... kernel NULL pointer reference ... udevadm timeout

2009-03-21 Thread Tapani Tarvainen
latency timer of device :01:00.0 to 64 Any suggestions would be appreciated. -- Tapani Tarvainen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org