Re: [gentoo-user] where did lvm installation guide go?

2013-08-29 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 30/08/2013 07:21, J. Roeleveld wrote: > Canek, > > LVs can be resized while the system is running. It also depends on the > actual filesystem, but extending can be done online with all filesystems > I am aware of. > Shrinking is not possible with all. no fs can be reduced whilst mounted, most

Re: [gentoo-user] where did lvm installation guide go?

2013-08-29 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 30/08/2013 07:36, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 12:21 AM, J. Roeleveld wrote: >> gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: >>> On Thu, Aug 29 2013, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: >>> On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 4:19 PM, wrote: > > I have experience with LVM, but not systemd or dracut

Re: [gentoo-user] where did lvm installation guide go?

2013-08-29 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 30/08/2013 03:45, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: > On Thu, Aug 29 2013, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > >> On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 4:19 PM, wrote: >>> >>> I have experience with LVM, but not systemd or dracut or initramfs >>> >>> * both grub and grub2 support lvm >> >> Does GRUB legacy handles /boot in

Re: [gentoo-user] where did lvm installation guide go?

2013-08-29 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 12:21 AM, J. Roeleveld wrote: > gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: >>On Thu, Aug 29 2013, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: >> >>> On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 4:19 PM, wrote: I have experience with LVM, but not systemd or dracut or initramfs * both grub and grub2 support lvm

Re: [gentoo-user] looking for a couple of systemd units

2013-08-29 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 12:24 AM, Graham Murray wrote: > "Stefan G. Weichinger" writes: > >> Just found this note from Pacho on planet.gentoo.org: >> >> http://my.opera.com/pacho/blog/2013/08/27/how-to-write-proper-systemd-unit-files >> >> I will have to review some of my files then ;-) > > What

Re: [gentoo-user] looking for a couple of systemd units

2013-08-29 Thread Graham Murray
"Stefan G. Weichinger" writes: > Just found this note from Pacho on planet.gentoo.org: > > http://my.opera.com/pacho/blog/2013/08/27/how-to-write-proper-systemd-unit-files > > I will have to review some of my files then ;-) What I did not understand from reading that is why he (or gentoo policy)

Re: [gentoo-user] where did lvm installation guide go?

2013-08-29 Thread J. Roeleveld
gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: >On Thu, Aug 29 2013, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > >> On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 4:19 PM, wrote: >>> >>> I have experience with LVM, but not systemd or dracut or initramfs >>> >>> * both grub and grub2 support lvm >> >> Does GRUB legacy handles /boot in LVM? I haven't tried t

Re: [gentoo-user] where did lvm installation guide go?

2013-08-29 Thread J. Roeleveld
"Canek Peláez Valdés" wrote: >On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 10:47 AM, wrote: >> I want to reinstall an old system to have combined root+usr. >> >> I have always used an lvm installation guide that was a "companion" >to >> the handbook. That is it would tell you how to augment each handbook >> install

Re: [gentoo-user] where did lvm installation guide go?

2013-08-29 Thread J. Roeleveld
"Canek Peláez Valdés" wrote: >On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 10:47 AM, wrote: >> I want to reinstall an old system to have combined root+usr. >> >> I have always used an lvm installation guide that was a "companion" >to >> the handbook. That is it would tell you how to augment each handbook >> install

Re: [gentoo-user] where did lvm installation guide go?

2013-08-29 Thread J. Roeleveld
gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: >I want to reinstall an old system to have combined root+usr. > >I have always used an lvm installation guide that was a "companion" to >the handbook. That is it would tell you how to augment each handbook >installation chapter for lvm (actually lvm2). > >I can't find this

Re: [gentoo-user] where did lvm installation guide go?

2013-08-29 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 8:45 PM, wrote: > On Thu, Aug 29 2013, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > >> On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 4:19 PM, wrote: >>> >>> I have experience with LVM, but not systemd or dracut or initramfs >>> >>> * both grub and grub2 support lvm >> >> Does GRUB legacy handles /boot in LVM

Re: [gentoo-user] where did lvm installation guide go?

2013-08-29 Thread gottlieb
On Thu, Aug 29 2013, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 4:19 PM, wrote: >> >> I have experience with LVM, but not systemd or dracut or initramfs >> >> * both grub and grub2 support lvm > > Does GRUB legacy handles /boot in LVM? I haven't tried that yet. That I don't know. I b

Re: [gentoo-user] where did lvm installation guide go?

2013-08-29 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 4:19 PM, wrote: > On Thu, Aug 29 2013, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > >> As James said, the docs are being reorganized. However, I did a >> systemd+LVM installation (just because I was getting tired of not >> knowing what the fuss was all about), and (in my experience) there

Re: [gentoo-user] where did lvm installation guide go?

2013-08-29 Thread gottlieb
On Thu, Aug 29 2013, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > As James said, the docs are being reorganized. However, I did a > systemd+LVM installation (just because I was getting tired of not > knowing what the fuss was all about), and (in my experience) there are > almost no changes from the regular instal

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: where did lvm installation guide go?

2013-08-29 Thread gottlieb
On Thu, Aug 29 2013, James wrote: > nyu.edu> writes: > > >> I can't find this documentation now on gentoo.org. There is a big wiki >> page, but that is different as are daniel's 2-volume "learning linux >> lvm". > > Gentoo is massively reorganizing documentation. The old > "system" was arcane,

Re: [gentoo-user] where did lvm installation guide go?

2013-08-29 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 10:47 AM, wrote: > I want to reinstall an old system to have combined root+usr. > > I have always used an lvm installation guide that was a "companion" to > the handbook. That is it would tell you how to augment each handbook > installation chapter for lvm (actually lvm2)

[gentoo-user] Re: where did lvm installation guide go?

2013-08-29 Thread James
nyu.edu> writes: > I can't find this documentation now on gentoo.org. There is a big wiki > page, but that is different as are daniel's 2-volume "learning linux > lvm". Gentoo is massively reorganizing documentation. The old "system" was arcane, and a fools errand to try to use. A Few stalwar

[gentoo-user] where did lvm installation guide go?

2013-08-29 Thread gottlieb
I want to reinstall an old system to have combined root+usr. I have always used an lvm installation guide that was a "companion" to the handbook. That is it would tell you how to augment each handbook installation chapter for lvm (actually lvm2). I can't find this documentation now on gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] HA-Proxy or iptables?

2013-08-29 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Aug 29, 2013 7:13 PM, "Randy Barlow" wrote: > > Honestly, I think the best solution is to switch the company to using domain names to access these resources. This makes it much easier to silently introduce things like load balancers later on if you ever need to scale. It's also much easier to c

Re: [gentoo-user] HA-Proxy or iptables?

2013-08-29 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Aug 29, 2013 7:46 PM, "thegeezer" wrote: > > On 08/29/2013 01:12 PM, Randy Barlow wrote: > > Honestly, I think the best solution is to switch the company to using domain names to access these resources. This makes it much easier to silently introduce things like load balancers later on if you e

Re: [gentoo-user] grub2 or kernel config - unable to properly boot [NOT SOLVED]

2013-08-29 Thread Francisco Ares
2013/8/29 Gregory Shearman > In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote: > >> > >> search for CONSOLE in this file and find: > >> > >> # exec >${CONSOLE} <${CONSOLE} 2>&1 > >> > >> Just remove the hash at the start of the line, rebuild my initramfs > >> and it is ready to go. > >> > >> -- > >> Regards,

Re: [gentoo-user] grub2 or kernel config - unable to properly boot [NOT SOLVED]

2013-08-29 Thread Gregory Shearman
In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote: >> >> search for CONSOLE in this file and find: >> >> # exec >${CONSOLE} <${CONSOLE} 2>&1 >> >> Just remove the hash at the start of the line, rebuild my initramfs >> and it is ready to go. >> >> -- >> Regards, >> Gregory. >> >> > > Thanks Gregory. > > I really

Re: [gentoo-user] HA-Proxy or iptables?

2013-08-29 Thread thegeezer
On 08/29/2013 01:12 PM, Randy Barlow wrote: > Honestly, I think the best solution is to switch the company to using domain > names to access these resources. This makes it much easier to silently > introduce things like load balancers later on if you ever need to scale. It's > also much easier t

Re: [gentoo-user] HA-Proxy or iptables?

2013-08-29 Thread Randy Barlow
Honestly, I think the best solution is to switch the company to using domain names to access these resources. This makes it much easier to silently introduce things like load balancers later on if you ever need to scale. It's also much easier to communicate to new users how to find this resource

Re: [gentoo-user] grub2 or kernel config - unable to properly boot [NOT SOLVED]

2013-08-29 Thread Francisco Ares
2013/8/28 Gregory Shearman > In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote: > > > > While trying to learn about dracut, I found a detail that made me look > > closer to the genkernel generated initramfs, and I found that the error > > message was perfectly clear: there was no /dev/sda5, where my "real_root" >

[gentoo-user] kernel with DRM = blank screen

2013-08-29 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, I have an old HP 625 laptop with an ATI RS880 HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 4200 Series] chip on board. The xf86-video-ati driver needs DRM (direct rendering support) in the kernel. Unfortunately, if (and only if) I enable DRM (built in or as module) in a recent kernel like gentoo-sources-3.1

[gentoo-user] HA-Proxy or iptables?

2013-08-29 Thread Pandu Poluan
Hello list! Here's my scenario: Currently there is a server performing 2 functions; one runs on, let's say, port 2000, and another one runs on port 3000. Due to some necessary changes, especially the need to (1) provide more resource for a function, and (2) delegate management of the functions t