Re: [PLUG] Evi Nemeth Re: Brainfart ... PLUG cookbooks

2022-05-13 Thread Michael Ewan
>In 2001, Dr. Nemeth retired to her sailboat and sailed the >world - a long long way from her CU-Boulder professorship. >In June 2013, she and the crew of the vintage yacht Niña >were lost in a huge storm in the Tasman Sea between New >Zealand and Australia. Sigh. I knew Evi personally, we

Re: [PLUG] Evi Nemeth Re: Brainfart ... PLUG cookbooks

2022-05-13 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 13 May 2022, Ben Koenig wrote: As a nod to Dr. Nemeth and the people who made all this possible, I'll uninstall NetworkManager this weekend and configure a static IP for eth0 in /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf. Ben, Or, '/etc/rc.d/rc.networkmanager stop' followed by 'chmod -x

Re: [PLUG] Brainfart ... PLUG cookbooks

2022-05-13 Thread Robert Citek
If you wanna host it, great. Personally, I don’t. - Robert On Fri, May 13, 2022 at 3:18 PM Ben Koenig wrote: > Github??? Do I need to write a howto for hosting a repo with cgit? > > -Ben > > > --- Original Message --- > On Friday, May 13th, 2022 at 2:05 PM, Robert Citek > wrote: > > >

[PLUG] Evi Nemeth Re: Brainfart ... PLUG cookbooks

2022-05-13 Thread Keith Lofstrom
On Fri, May 13, 2022 at 01:38:32PM -0700, Keith Lofstrom wrote: > I have /many/ verbose and vaguely-useful computer books on I pondered that. The fat books that transitioned me (*) from Windoze to BSDI, then BSDI to Redhat Linux, were Evi Nemeth's "Unix System Administration Handbook", editions

[PLUG] Brainfart ... PLUG cookbooks

2022-05-13 Thread Keith Lofstrom
I have /many/ verbose and vaguely-useful computer books on my shelves - the authors run on for pages about a few subjects, rather than provide well indexed terse paragraphs about MANY subjects. Over the years, the PLUG list has accumulated some nonsense and MUCH wisdom. I can imagine that

Re: [PLUG] filesystems question

2022-05-13 Thread David Bridges
I've forced this hundreds of times over the years working for a hosting provider where we used software raid / LVM on almost all of our servers. I've found the following commands quite helpful when in the situation like you describe. I'd usually be using a CentOS rescue environment mainly

Re: [PLUG] filesystems question

2022-05-13 Thread wes
On Fri, May 13, 2022 at 12:53 PM Ben Koenig wrote: > > I suspect this is a result of many years of different sysadmins replacing > > drives as they failed. we probably had the idea of eventually increasing > > the array's storage size once all the smaller drives were replaced with > > larger

Re: [PLUG] filesystems question

2022-05-13 Thread wes
On Fri, May 13, 2022 at 12:07 PM Robert Citek wrote: > > In contrast, if we parse the same information for md1, we see that it is > also made up of 5 devices, sdb2-sdf2, but of varying sizes: > > The RAID makes sense. The smallest partition size is 288.2 GB. And 684.1 > / 228.2 = 3 which is

Re: [PLUG] filesystems question

2022-05-13 Thread Robert Citek
Just to clarify, md0 seems to be working just fine. It's md1 that seems to be having an issue(s). And if md1 was partitioned or configured to be used in an LVM, mounting it won't work. If we parse the data from lsblk, we can see that md0 is made of 5 devices, sdb1-sdf1, which are all of the

Re: [PLUG] filesystems question

2022-05-13 Thread wes
On Fri, May 13, 2022 at 10:02 AM Ben Koenig wrote: > I might be channeling Captain Obvious here, but /dev/md0 is basically just > a block device. > I believe you are channeling a very different captain. > Sounds like you should identify the filesystem the same way you would for > a normal HDD

Re: [PLUG] filesystems question

2022-05-13 Thread wes
On Fri, May 13, 2022 at 8:04 AM Robert Citek wrote: > Admittedly, I haven't played with LVM in a while. But here's a nice > resource: > > > https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/configuring_and_managing_logical_volumes/index > > this does look nice, but

Re: [PLUG] filesystems question

2022-05-13 Thread Robert Citek
Admittedly, I haven't played with LVM in a while. But here's a nice resource: https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/configuring_and_managing_logical_volumes/index >From the output you posted, your md1 RAID6 looks like it's working fine, i.e. no failed