Re: [Hampshire] lvm nightmare

2010-07-08 Thread John Cooper
On 08/07/10 00:08, Jacqui Caren-home wrote: OK I freely admit I did not RTFM. I have a redhat (well centos5) box with a 500GB disk in I use to play with openvz store pictures on etc. centos mounts / from /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 So the question is 1) is there a way to recover from

Re: [Hampshire] lvm nightmare

2010-07-08 Thread Hugo Mills
On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 12:27:03AM +0100, Jacqui Caren-home wrote: Hugo Mills wrote: On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 12:08:24AM +0100, Jacqui Caren-home wrote: So the question is 1) is there a way to recover from my stupidity without wiping the PV/LV If you didn't expand the filesystem into the

Re: [Hampshire] lvm nightmare

2010-07-08 Thread Jacqui Caren-home
Hugo Mills wrote: It's looking for /var/log/lvm, which may or may not be present. There is apparently an --ignorelockingfailure option (see man 8 lvm), which may help? docs say you can run the various commands under the lvm command but the commands I wanted to use do not accept the

Re: [Hampshire] lvm nightmare

2010-07-08 Thread Vic
docs say you can run the various commands under the lvm command but the commands I wanted to use do not accept the --ignroelockingfailure option :-( What *exactly* are you trying to do? Tonight I am doing a complete drive copy to a new drive, pvextending the /dev/sda2 PV on the new bigger

Re: [Hampshire] ext4 and dd disc cloning

2010-07-08 Thread Keith Edmunds
On Thu, 08 Jul 2010 22:10:26 +0100, l...@discoverlinux.co.uk said: My normal backup routine is to tar up my home directory files daily and then every month or so do a full disc clone using DD There are better ways...how do you store the tarballs and dd dumps? This has worked for years but

[Hampshire] [OT, I suppose] Router

2010-07-08 Thread Owain Clarke
After a period of connection problems my ISP wants to test my line with a different router, and I wonder if there's anyone who might be able to lend me one for a couple of weeks. I'm in the Romsey area, but work also takes me near Fareham, Brockenhurst and New Milton Thanks in anticipation

Re: [Hampshire] ext4 and dd disc cloning

2010-07-08 Thread John Cooper
On 08/07/10 22:21, Keith Edmunds wrote: On Thu, 08 Jul 2010 22:10:26 +0100, l...@discoverlinux.co.uk said: My normal backup routine is to tar up my home directory files daily and then every month or so do a full disc clone using DD There are better ways...how do you store the tarballs and

Re: [Hampshire] ext4 and dd disc cloning

2010-07-08 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
On 8 July 2010 22:10, John Cooper l...@discoverlinux.co.uk wrote: My normal backup routine is to tar up my home directory files daily and then every month or so do a full disc clone using DD dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=32M This has worked for years but now fails to copy all files on Fedora

Re: [Hampshire] ext4 and dd disc cloning

2010-07-08 Thread John Cooper
On 08/07/10 23:42, James Courtier-Dutton wrote: On 8 July 2010 22:10, John Cooper l...@discoverlinux.co.uk wrote: My normal backup routine is to tar up my home directory files daily and then every month or so do a full disc clone using DD dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=32M This has worked

Re: [Hampshire] ext4 and dd disc cloning

2010-07-08 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
On 9 July 2010 00:15, John Cooper l...@discoverlinux.co.uk wrote: On 08/07/10 23:42, James Courtier-Dutton wrote: On 8 July 2010 22:10, John Cooper l...@discoverlinux.co.uk wrote: My normal backup routine is to tar up my home directory files daily and then every month or so do a full disc

Re: [Hampshire] [OT, I suppose] Router

2010-07-08 Thread Chris. Aubrey-Smith
On 8 July 2010 18:34, Owain Clarke simb...@cooptel.net wrote: After a period of connection problems my ISP wants to test my line with a different router, and I wonder if there's anyone who might be able to lend me one for a couple of weeks. I'm in the Romsey area, but work also takes me near