Re: Reduce ext3 filesystem size *without* umount?

2007-11-09 Thread Bill Carlson
, lvreduce to the actual size then resize2fs again, without specifying a size. resize2fs does the right thing of using the max size if no size is specified. In reality though, if you have a file system you need to reduce significantly, it's probably a better idea to remakerestore it. $.02 -- Bill

Re: LVM/Ext3 extend

2007-08-01 Thread Bill Carlson
with XFS on SLES9 guests, it supports online growth. -- Bill Carlson -- Systems Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Anything is possible, HCIS | given time and money. University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics | Opinions are mine, not my employer's

Re: Timezone change.

2007-03-02 Thread Bill Carlson
, rather than dumping the data from a file that may not be used. Finally, remember this is all about timezone display, the actual time in UTC does NOT change! -- Bill Carlson -- Systems Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Anything is possible, HCIS | given

Re: Timezone change.

2007-03-02 Thread Bill Carlson
On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 10:36:24AM -0500, Mark Pace wrote: On 3/2/07, Bill Carlson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ date -d '2007-03-11 03:00:00' Sun Mar 11 03:00:00 CDT 2007 Note, the date '2007-03-11 02:00' doesn't exist in a timezone observing US DST, and date makes

Re: Timezone change.

2007-03-02 Thread Bill Carlson
On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 09:01:01AM -0700, Mark Post wrote: On Fri, Mar 2, 2007 at 10:29 AM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Bill Carlson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -snip- I recommend this over the zdump test, as the ACTUAL system is exercised, rather than dumping the data from a file that may

Re: DST question

2007-02-09 Thread Bill Carlson
on 3/12/2007, a correct timezone means the timezone information is correct. Example for my systems in Central time: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ date -d '2007-03-12' Mon Mar 12 00:00:00 CDT 2007 A return of: Mon Mar 12 00:00:00 CST 2007 would indicate the DST change is not effect. -- Bill Carlson

Re: Filesystem type and re-sizing filesystems

2006-08-29 Thread Bill Carlson
and have been quite happy. Grows on the fly, see man xfs_growfs for details. -- Bill Carlson -- Systems Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Anything is possible, HCIS | given time and money. University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics | Opinions are mine

Re: XFS and LVM

2006-08-04 Thread Bill Carlson
and has worked fine. I choose XFS simply for the grow-online feature, compared to ext3's can grow online with experimental patch. -- Bill Carlson -- Systems Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Anything is possible, HCIS | given time and money. University of Iowa

Re: Booting into Single User Mode (init 1)

2006-05-31 Thread Bill Carlson
feature was added sometime in the last couple of years. SUSE Linux started as a sort-of offshoot of Slackware. In their documentation, they used to give thanks to Patrick Volkerding for all his help. I'm not sure if they still do or not. Ah, my mistake. Bill Carlson -- Systems Administrator

Re: Booting into Single User Mode (init 1)

2006-05-30 Thread Bill Carlson
the init runlevel as well (ie 1 for single user or more precisely runleve 1). Bill Carlson -- Systems Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Anything is possible, HCIS | given time and money. University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics | Opinions are mine, not my

Re: Booting into Single User Mode (init 1)

2006-05-26 Thread Bill Carlson
On Thu, 25 May 2006, Tom Shilson wrote: Cool! Thank you very much! tom Hey Tom, I forgot the bit in zipl about the menu: --- :menu1 target = /boot/zipl 1 = ipl 2 = singleuser default = 1 timeout = 60 --- FYI, Bill Carlson -- Systems

Re: Help with the sudoer file

2006-05-26 Thread Bill Carlson
of your users sudo as root with their password as well by commenting out the '%users' line. Bill Carlson -- Systems Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Anything is possible, HCIS | given time and money. University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics | Opinions

Re: Booting into Single User Mode (init 1)

2006-05-25 Thread Bill Carlson
is to pass the linux kernel the single parameter. SLES and Redhat use this parameter to trigger single user mode, other distros may or may not support this. Bill Carlson -- Systems Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Anything is possible, HCIS | given time

Re: What file system type to use for LVM ?

2006-04-27 Thread Bill Carlson
, online expansion of the filesystem is stable and works fine. No complaints on the performance, but then there isn't a whole lot of I/O going on with my guests. Bill Carlson -- Systems Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Anything is possible, HCIS | given

Re: Problems with qeth driver when disabling IPv6...

2005-11-10 Thread Bill Carlson
. It's an qeth issue, the IPv6 has to be disabled at compile time, so if you really want IPv6 off you'll have to compile your own kernel. Why qeth was written this way is a good question. Bill Carlson -- Systems Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Anything is possible, HCIS