Re: Move Fedora Server to new machine, RAID1 -> Single disk

2024-10-02 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sat, Sep 28, 2024 at 3:41 PM Roger Heflin wrote: > > I have personally done g1(3.5" scsi) -> g5(2.5" sas) (initrd rebuild > to use the correct drivers + dd to clone onto a SAN disk, boot up new > machine on livecd and dd back to the local disk). > > And done man

Re: Move Fedora Server to new machine, RAID1 -> Single disk

2024-10-02 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sat, Sep 28, 2024 at 2:02 PM George N. White III wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 27, 2024 at 8:07 PM Jeffrey Walton wrote: >> >> Hi Everyone, >> >> I have a Fedora Server running F40 on an old Proliant G5 with hardware >> RAID1. The machine is giving too much trouble so I would like to >> migrate to ne

Re: Move Fedora Server to new machine, RAID1 -> Single disk

2024-10-02 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sat, Sep 28, 2024 at 11:23 AM Michael D. Setzer II wrote: > > On 27 Sep 2024 at 19:05, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > From: Jeffrey Walton > Date sent: Fri, 27 Sep 2024 19:05:31 -0400 > Subject:Move Fedora Server to new machine, RAID

Re: Move Fedora Server to new machine, RAID1 -> Single disk

2024-10-02 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sat, Sep 28, 2024 at 8:57 AM Barry Scott wrote: > > On 28 Sep 2024, at 00:05, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > Does anyone have experience with a migration like this? If so, can you > provide feedback? > > I have always considered it better to make a new install on new hardware. > Then I config the s

Re: Move Fedora Server to new machine, RAID1 -> Single disk

2024-10-02 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sat, Sep 28, 2024 at 1:42 AM Peter Boy wrote: > > > Am 28.09.2024 um 01:05 schrieb Jeffrey Walton : > > > > I have a Fedora Server running F40 on an old Proliant G5 with hardware > > RAID1. The machine is giving too much trouble so I would like to > > migrate to newer hardware with a single SSD

Re: Move Fedora Server to new machine, RAID1 -> Single disk

2024-09-29 Thread Peter Boy
> Am 28.09.2024 um 20:02 schrieb George N. White III : > > > Legacy filesystems may not be the best option for an SSD -- a fresh > install using btrfs may be beneficial. > Fedora Server Edition uses LVM/XFS for a reason. And that’s not a „legacy“ filesystem. A buzz word and some marketing sp

Re: Move Fedora Server to new machine, RAID1 -> Single disk

2024-09-28 Thread Roger Heflin
I have personally done g1(3.5" scsi) -> g5(2.5" sas) (initrd rebuild to use the correct drivers + dd to clone onto a SAN disk, boot up new machine on livecd and dd back to the local disk). And done many g5/g6/g7/g8/g9/g10 to various different models (generally dd/clone to san di

Re: Move Fedora Server to new machine, RAID1 -> Single disk

2024-09-28 Thread George N. White III
On Fri, Sep 27, 2024 at 8:07 PM Jeffrey Walton wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > I have a Fedora Server running F40 on an old Proliant G5 with hardware > RAID1. The machine is giving too much trouble so I would like to > migrate to newer hardware with a single SSD. Both machines are x86_64. > Legacy fil

Re: Move Fedora Server to new machine, RAID1 -> Single disk

2024-09-28 Thread Michael D. Setzer II via users
On 27 Sep 2024 at 19:05, Jeffrey Walton wrote: From: Jeffrey Walton Date sent: Fri, 27 Sep 2024 19:05:31 -0400 Subject:Move Fedora Server to new machine, RAID1 -> Single disk To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org Send reply

Re: Move Fedora Server to new machine, RAID1 -> Single disk

2024-09-28 Thread Barry Scott
> On 28 Sep 2024, at 00:05, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > Does anyone have experience with a migration like this? If so, can you > provide feedback? I have always considered it better to make a new install on new hardware. Then I config the services and backup and restore the data. This way you g

Re: Move Fedora Server to new machine, RAID1 -> Single disk

2024-09-27 Thread Peter Boy
> Am 28.09.2024 um 01:05 schrieb Jeffrey Walton : > > Hi Everyone, > > I have a Fedora Server running F40 on an old Proliant G5 with hardware > RAID1. The machine is giving too much trouble so I would like to > migrate to newer hardware with a single SSD. Both machines are x86_64. > > I've bee

Re: Move Fedora Server to new machine, RAID1 -> Single disk

2024-09-27 Thread Tim via users
On Fri, 2024-09-27 at 19:05 -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > I have a Fedora Server running F40 on an old Proliant G5 with hardware > RAID1. The machine is giving too much trouble so I would like to > migrate to newer hardware with a single SSD. Both machines are x86_64. > > ... > > I am planning o

Move Fedora Server to new machine, RAID1 -> Single disk

2024-09-27 Thread Jeffrey Walton
Hi Everyone, I have a Fedora Server running F40 on an old Proliant G5 with hardware RAID1. The machine is giving too much trouble so I would like to migrate to newer hardware with a single SSD. Both machines are x86_64. I've been researching methods to perform the migration, but I am not clear on

livecd-iso-to-disk with data-persistence

2024-07-03 Thread Meikel
Hi folks, on a Fedora 40 XFCE I'm running livecd-iso-to-disk to create a bootable stick with persistent home and persistent overlay. In the direcotry where I downloaded Fedora-Xfce-Live-x86_64-40-1.14.iso I run the following command:     sudo livecd-iso-to-disk --efi --format --rese

Re: remove a disk from raid1 array

2024-07-03 Thread Roger Heflin
You need to add this to the grub kernel boot line: bootdegraded=true otherwise the default behavior is to freak out and not work. On Wed, Jul 3, 2024 at 5:17 AM François Patte wrote: > > Bonjour, > > I need to remove a disk from a raid1 array and restart the computer > *without

remove a disk from raid1 array

2024-07-03 Thread François Patte
Bonjour, I need to remove a disk from a raid1 array and restart the computer *without* that disk and without any other disk Up to now, if I stop the computer, unplug the disk and restart, the computer does not start complaining that it has not find all the disks. Do I have to remove

Re: BTRFS disk arrangement on new build. Cockpit says home var and root not mounted

2024-06-09 Thread Javier Perez
nstalling > cockpit, and checking Storage, i noticed some warnings about the disks. It > claims that /root, /home and /var are not mounted. I think they are. I just > wonder if I am doing something wrong or weird here and I'd appreciate a > second look. > > Here is my fdisk > ro

BTRFS disk arrangement on new build. Cockpit says home var and root not mounted

2024-06-09 Thread Javier Perez
x27;d appreciate a second look. Here is my fdisk root@pepewin2:~# fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 232.89 GiB, 250059350016 bytes, 488397168 sectors Disk model: CT250MX500SSD1 Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096

Fedore CoreOS and secondary disk

2024-05-12 Thread Earl Ramirez
Good day, all, I have been trying to add a second disk to CoreOS and can't seem to figure this out. The secondary disk is specified in the butane config but the part that I need guidance with is how do I bring up the server with two disks. Sample disk config from butane

Re: errors logged after USB disk ejected

2024-01-05 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sat, 2024-01-06 at 00:39 +1100, fed...@eyal.emu.id.au wrote: > This happens whenever I connect and mount a USB disk > $ sudo mount /dev/sdi1 /sata > Then when I am finished with it, I do > $ sudo umount /sata > and then > $ sudo eject /dev/sdi > At this

errors logged after USB disk ejected

2024-01-05 Thread fedora
This happens whenever I connect and mount a USB disk $ sudo mount /dev/sdi1 /sata Then when I am finished with it, I do $ sudo umount /sata and then $ sudo eject /dev/sdi At this point the system log shows the below burst of errors (the disk is still plugged in

Re: Is this possible?: Convert /dev/sdd[1-5] Ext4 => /dev/sdd [btrfs - whole disk] - without losing data in sdd5 (old /home)

2023-12-19 Thread Bryan
parts 1-4, replace them with a new btrfs partition and then maybe somehow use btrfs-convert to integrate the remaining ext4 part 5 into the new part 1? . . but what I really want to do is create a new btrfs using the _whole_ of the disk - but somehow avoid having to spend a LONG time copying back

Re: Is this possible?: Convert /dev/sdd[1-5] Ext4 => /dev/sdd [btrfs - whole disk] - without losing data in sdd5 (old /home)

2023-12-19 Thread George N. White III
inse and repeat. We found that drive failure rates increased around end-of-warranty, so I worry about intensive disk activity on older drives pushing them to failure. > . . but what I > really want to do is create a new btrfs using the _whole_ of the disk - > but somehow avoid having to

Is this possible?: Convert /dev/sdd[1-5] Ext4 => /dev/sdd [btrfs - whole disk] - without losing data in sdd5 (old /home)

2023-12-19 Thread Philip Rhoades via users
use btrfs-convert to integrate the remaining ext4 part 5 into the new part 1? . . but what I really want to do is create a new btrfs using the _whole_ of the disk - but somehow avoid having to spend a LONG time copying back about 4TB (to the 8TB drive) - the only way I could see that possibility

Re: Upgrade to F39: Disk Requirements: At least 5633 MB more space needed on the / filesystem.

2023-11-08 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Wed, Nov 8, 2023 at 1:15 PM Michael Hennebry wrote: > > On Wed, 8 Nov 2023, Michael Hennebry wrote: > > > On Tue, 7 Nov 2023, Paul Smith wrote: > > > >> # df -h > >> Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > >> devtmpfs 4.0M

Re: Upgrade to F39: Disk Requirements: At least 5633 MB more space needed on the / filesystem.

2023-11-08 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Wed, 8 Nov 2023, Michael Hennebry wrote: On Tue, 7 Nov 2023, Paul Smith wrote: # df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on devtmpfs 4.0M 0 4.0M 0% /dev tmpfs 16G 194M 16G 2%

Re: Upgrade to F39: Disk Requirements: At least 5633 MB more space needed on the / filesystem.

2023-11-08 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Tue, 7 Nov 2023, Paul Smith wrote: # df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on devtmpfs 4.0M 0 4.0M 0% /dev tmpfs 16G 194M 16G 2% /dev/shm tmpfs

Re: Upgrade to F39: Disk Requirements: At least 5633 MB more space needed on the / filesystem.

2023-11-07 Thread Paul Smith
On Tue, Nov 7, 2023 at 7:19 PM Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > > > Thanks, Peter: > > > > > > # df -h > > > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > > > devtmpfs 4.0M 0 4.0M 0% /dev > > > tmpfs

Re: Upgrade to F39: Disk Requirements: At least 5633 MB more space needed on the / filesystem.

2023-11-07 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Tue, Nov 7, 2023 at 12:48 PM Jonathan Billings wrote: > > On Nov 7, 2023, at 12:06, Paul Smith wrote: > > > > Thanks, Peter: > > > > # df -h > > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > > devtmpfs 4.0M 0 4.0M 0% /dev > >

Re: Upgrade to F39: Disk Requirements: At least 5633 MB more space needed on the / filesystem.

2023-11-07 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Tue, Nov 7, 2023 at 11:53 AM Paul Smith wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 7, 2023 at 4:46 PM Paul Smith wrote: > > > > While running > > > > dnf system-upgrade download --releasever=39 > > > > to upgrade Fedora, I get the following error: > > > >

Re: Upgrade to F39: Disk Requirements: At least 5633 MB more space needed on the / filesystem.

2023-11-07 Thread old sixpack13
> Thanks to all who have answered. The command > > dnf autoremove > > did the trick. (I am sending this message from F39.) > for further reading: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/upgrading-fedora-offline/ ___ users mailing list -- user

Re: Upgrade to F39: Disk Requirements: At least 5633 MB more space needed on the / filesystem.

2023-11-07 Thread Paul Smith
On Tue, Nov 7, 2023 at 5:48 PM Jonathan Billings wrote: > > > Thanks, Peter: > > > > # df -h > > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > > devtmpfs 4.0M 0 4.0M 0% /dev > > tmpfs 16G 194M

Re: Upgrade to F39: Disk Requirements: At least 5633 MB more space needed on the / filesystem.

2023-11-07 Thread Jonathan Billings
On Nov 7, 2023, at 12:06, Paul Smith wrote: > > Thanks, Peter: > > # df -h > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > devtmpfs 4.0M 0 4.0M 0% /dev > tmpfs 16G 194M 16G 2% /dev/shm

Re: Upgrade to F39: Disk Requirements: At least 5633 MB more space needed on the / filesystem.

2023-11-07 Thread old sixpack13
> > # df -h > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on ... > /dev/mapper/fedora_localhost--live-root 69G 68G 0 100% / ... > /dev/mapper/fedora_localhost--live-home 794G 397G 357G 53% /home comparing sizes/disk layout: care to do a n

Re: Upgrade to F39: Disk Requirements: At least 5633 MB more space needed on the / filesystem.

2023-11-07 Thread Peter Boy
> Am 07.11.2023 um 17:59 schrieb Paul Smith : > > On Tue, Nov 7, 2023 at 4:57 PM Peter Boy wrote: >> >>>> >>>> While running >>>> >>>> dnf system-upgrade download --releasever=39 >>>> >>>> to upgr

Re: Upgrade to F39: Disk Requirements: At least 5633 MB more space needed on the / filesystem.

2023-11-07 Thread Felix Miata
Paul Smith composed on 2023-11-07 16:46 (UTC): > While running > > dnf system-upgrade download --releasever=39 > > to upgrade Fedora, I get the following error: > > Error Summary - > Disk Requirements: At least 5633 MB more space needed on the / filesyste

Re: Upgrade to F39: Disk Requirements: At least 5633 MB more space needed on the / filesystem.

2023-11-07 Thread old sixpack13
> On Tue, Nov 7, 2023 at 4:46 PM Paul Smith > Maybe I can delete something from the following, to free up space? > better to de-install the elder kernels via 1. uname -a => get's the kernel you're currently running 2. rpm -q kernel-core => all installed kernels included the one you're runni

Re: Upgrade to F39: Disk Requirements: At least 5633 MB more space needed on the / filesystem.

2023-11-07 Thread old sixpack13
> > Could you please help me? please run sudo dnf autoremove it will/should clean old outdated installed packages and then provide the output of following commands: 1. df -h|grep -v tmpfs 2. du -sch /var/log/journal ___ users mailing list --

Re: Upgrade to F39: Disk Requirements: At least 5633 MB more space needed on the / filesystem.

2023-11-07 Thread Paul Smith
On Tue, Nov 7, 2023 at 4:57 PM Peter Boy wrote: > > >> > >> While running > >> > >> dnf system-upgrade download --releasever=39 > >> > >> to upgrade Fedora, I get the following error: > >> > >> Error Summary

Re: Upgrade to F39: Disk Requirements: At least 5633 MB more space needed on the / filesystem.

2023-11-07 Thread Peter Boy
> Am 07.11.2023 um 17:52 schrieb Paul Smith : > > On Tue, Nov 7, 2023 at 4:46 PM Paul Smith wrote: >> >> While running >> >> dnf system-upgrade download --releasever=39 >> >> to upgrade Fedora, I get the following error: >> >> Error

Re: Upgrade to F39: Disk Requirements: At least 5633 MB more space needed on the / filesystem.

2023-11-07 Thread Paul Smith
On Tue, Nov 7, 2023 at 4:46 PM Paul Smith wrote: > > While running > > dnf system-upgrade download --releasever=39 > > to upgrade Fedora, I get the following error: > > Error Summary - > Disk Requirements: At least 5633 MB more space needed on the / files

Upgrade to F39: Disk Requirements: At least 5633 MB more space needed on the / filesystem.

2023-11-07 Thread Paul Smith
Dear All, While running dnf system-upgrade download --releasever=39 to upgrade Fedora, I get the following error: Error Summary - Disk Requirements: At least 5633 MB more space needed on the / filesystem. Could you please help me? Thanks in advance, Paul

Re: Time to replace SSD disk?

2023-11-06 Thread Javier Perez
B >> > https://www.storagereview.com/review/crucial-mx100-ssd-review >> > <https://www.storagereview.com/review/crucial-mx100-ssd-review> >> > Looks like I have used up about 16% of its Endurance. >> >> But this is entirely irrelevant to the orig

Re: Time to replace SSD disk?

2023-11-06 Thread Javier Perez
tirely irrelevant to the original question. It has > nothing to do with your SSD. efivars isn't on a disk as was explained. > ___ > users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to u

Re: Time to replace SSD disk?

2023-11-05 Thread Samuel Sieb
I have used up about 16% of its Endurance. But this is entirely irrelevant to the original question. It has nothing to do with your SSD. efivars isn't on a disk as was explained. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscr

Re: Time to replace SSD disk?

2023-11-05 Thread Javier Perez
Hi. I could not find the specs back in the crucial web page. But from a review site I could find a figure, 72TB https://www.storagereview.com/review/crucial-mx100-ssd-review Looks like I have used up about 16% of its Endurance. On Sun, Nov 5, 2023 at 3:42 PM Barry wrote: > > > On 4 Nov 2023, at

Re: Time to replace SSD disk?

2023-11-05 Thread Barry
> On 4 Nov 2023, at 22:50, Javier Perez wrote: > > 246 Total_LBAs_Written 0x0032 100 100 000Old_age Always > - 23588083829 From that counter you can calculate the total number of bytes written. If you know the drive spec for endurance total bytes written before th

Re: Time to replace SSD disk?

2023-11-05 Thread George N. White III
On Sat, Nov 4, 2023 at 8:11 PM Barry wrote: > > > > On 4 Nov 2023, at 22:50, Javier Perez wrote: > > > > Cockpit is showing me an error of /sys/firmware/efi/efivars 0 free > > I believe that this is referring to the NVRAM on the motherboard not the > boot disk.

Re: Time to replace SSD disk?

2023-11-05 Thread Javier Perez
Hi. Thanks for the analysis. Indeed yes, this pc is practically always on. I like the RAID 1 idea, if one disk goes down I won't be caught up rebuilding from scratch even if it is just the OS. The Data is in a different disk. JP On Sun, Nov 5, 2023 at 4:37 AM Roberto Ragusa wrote: >

Re: Time to replace SSD disk?

2023-11-05 Thread Roger Heflin
ere have been bugs in how > it is reported. In particular, the SMART threshold is 0 and the current > value is 97, which, in SMART world means that 97 has to go down to 0 > to indicate a problem. So maybe the disk has spent 3% of its life, not 97% > (100 rewrites are nothing, SLC are typ

Re: Time to replace SSD disk?

2023-11-05 Thread Roberto Ragusa
ameter too much, there have been bugs in how it is reported. In particular, the SMART threshold is 0 and the current value is 97, which, in SMART world means that 97 has to go down to 0 to indicate a problem. So maybe the disk has spent 3% of its life, not 97% (100 rewrites are nothing, SLC are typicall

Re: Time to replace SSD disk?

2023-11-04 Thread Barry
> On 4 Nov 2023, at 22:50, Javier Perez wrote: > > Cockpit is showing me an error of /sys/firmware/efi/efivars 0 free I believe that this is referring to the NVRAM on the motherboard not the boot disk. I had this happen to one of my machines and the fix was to reset the efivar’

Re: Time to replace SSD disk?

2023-11-04 Thread Joe Zeff
On 11/04/2023 04:48 PM, Javier Perez wrote: Hi. My boot SSD was purchased on May, 2015. It is a Crucial 128GB one. Cockpit is showing me an error of /sys/firmware/efi/efivars 0 free This may be redundant, but before you start, make a complete backup of that disk on removable media. Running

Time to replace SSD disk?

2023-11-04 Thread Javier Perez
): After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk. If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay. The above only provides legacy SMART information - try 'smartctl END OF SMARTCTL Is it time to say good by and replace this disk? Sho

Re: F38 installer claims it cannot find a hard disk

2023-10-08 Thread Tim via users
Michael Hennebry wrote: >> I tried and failed to boot the .iso image >> from a partition on the hard drive. Samuel Sieb: > I would not expect that to work. What method would you use? People used to do that, it was a kind of loopmount. Though, as I recall, it may have been mounting an ISO file c

Re: F38 installer claims it cannot find a hard disk

2023-10-08 Thread Jonathan Billings
On Oct 8, 2023, at 19:28, Samuel Sieb wrote: > > As a file. But you still need to boot the installer from somewhere. I’ve extracted the kernel and initrd from the ISO and used them with the existing system’s bootloader. (I have an automated system at work for reloading a system, it uses a kic

Re: F38 installer claims it cannot find a hard disk

2023-10-08 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 10/8/23 16:25, Jonathan Billings wrote: On Oct 8, 2023, at 18:51, Mike Wright wrote: On 10/8/23 11:10, Michael Hennebry wrote: On Sat, 7 Oct 2023, Roger Heflin wrote: On Sat, Oct 7, 2023 at 10:19?AM Michael Hennebry wrote: What is a livecd to hard disk type install? There is usually

Re: F38 installer claims it cannot find a hard disk

2023-10-08 Thread Jonathan Billings
On Oct 8, 2023, at 18:51, Mike Wright wrote: > > On 10/8/23 11:10, Michael Hennebry wrote: >>> On Sat, 7 Oct 2023, Roger Heflin wrote: >>> On Sat, Oct 7, 2023 at 10:19?AM Michael Hennebry >>> wrote: >>>> What is a livecd to hard disk type install?

Re: F38 installer claims it cannot find a hard disk

2023-10-08 Thread Mike Wright
On 10/8/23 11:10, Michael Hennebry wrote: On Sat, 7 Oct 2023, Roger Heflin wrote: On Sat, Oct 7, 2023 at 10:19?AM Michael Hennebry wrote: What is a livecd to hard disk type install? There is usually an install-to-hard-disk icon someplace on the livecd desktop. That is what I did

Re: F38 installer claims it cannot find a hard disk

2023-10-08 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 10/8/23 11:10, Michael Hennebry wrote: On Sat, 7 Oct 2023, Roger Heflin wrote: On Sat, Oct 7, 2023 at 10:19?AM Michael Hennebry wrote: What is a livecd to hard disk type install? There is usually an install-to-hard-disk icon someplace on the livecd desktop. That is what I did

Re: F38 installer claims it cannot find a hard disk

2023-10-08 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Sat, 7 Oct 2023, Roger Heflin wrote: On Sat, Oct 7, 2023 at 10:19?AM Michael Hennebry wrote: What is a livecd to hard disk type install? There is usually an install-to-hard-disk icon someplace on the livecd desktop. That is what I did, though I used a DVD. Is there another way? I

Re: F38 installer claims it cannot find a hard disk

2023-10-08 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Sat, 7 Oct 2023, Joe Zeff wrote: On 10/07/2023 12:11 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote: Booting an installer from a hard disk partition used to work, at least sometimes. I'd open a bugzilla against Anaconda, either as a bug or a feature request. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.c

Re: F38 installer claims it cannot find a hard disk

2023-10-07 Thread Tim via users
On Sat, 2023-10-07 at 12:55 -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > I find Anaconda's user interface for selecting the install partition > clumsy at best. It should be redesigned. With that said, here's how to > select a drive to install the OS: >

Re: F38 installer claims it cannot find a hard disk

2023-10-07 Thread Roger Heflin
cd, I have not done an > > install/anaconda DVD install in a long time, I have been doing livecd > > to hard disk type installs. > > That is what I thought I was doing. > The image on the DVD is named > Fedora-Workstation-Live-x86_64-38-1.6.iso . > Navigating fedora websites

Re: F38 installer claims it cannot find a hard disk

2023-10-07 Thread Joe Zeff
On 10/07/2023 12:11 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote: Booting an installer from a hard disk partition used to work, at least sometimes. I'd open a bugzilla against Anaconda, either as a bug or a feature request. ___ users mailing list --

Re: F38 installer claims it cannot find a hard disk

2023-10-07 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Sat, 7 Oct 2023, Jonathan Billings wrote: On Oct 6, 2023, at 17:02, Michael Hennebry wrote: On Fri, 6 Oct 2023, Roger Heflin wrote: What does the /home directory/disk look like? (partition table, lvm setup (if lvm)?) sda1: 100 M Windows sda2: 100 M Id 83 sda3: 31.6 G / Id 83 sda5

Re: F38 installer claims it cannot find a hard disk

2023-10-07 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Thu, Oct 5, 2023 at 10:12 PM Michael Hennebry wrote: > > I burned the F38 workstation installer onto a DVD. > On booting it can find my home directory on the only hard disk. > When I tell the installer to install, > it claims it cannot find a hard drive. Grrr. What cannot

Re: F38 installer claims it cannot find a hard disk

2023-10-07 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Sat, Oct 07, 2023 at 10:18:40AM -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote: On Sat, 7 Oct 2023, Roger Heflin wrote: You might see if you can switch the mode to a different mode (AHCI would be the one that should be supported). Perusing the BIOS did not show me AHCI or IDE mode. You might find it a b

Re: F38 installer claims it cannot find a hard disk

2023-10-07 Thread Michael Hennebry
(AHCI would be the one that should be supported). Perusing the BIOS did not show me AHCI or IDE mode. You could also try installing it from the livecd, I have not done an install/anaconda DVD install in a long time, I have been doing livecd to hard disk type installs. That is what I thought I was

Re: F38 installer claims it cannot find a hard disk

2023-10-07 Thread Jonathan Billings
On Oct 6, 2023, at 17:02, Michael Hennebry wrote: >> On Fri, 6 Oct 2023, Roger Heflin wrote: >> What does the /home directory/disk look like? (partition table, lvm >> setup (if lvm)?) > > sda1: 100 M Windows > sda2: 100 M Id 83 > sda3: 31.6 G / Id 83 > sda

Re: F38 installer claims it cannot find a hard disk

2023-10-07 Thread Roger Heflin
). You could also try installing it from the livecd, I have not done an install/anaconda DVD install in a long time, I have been doing livecd to hard disk type installs. On Fri, Oct 6, 2023 at 11:18 PM Michael Hennebry wrote: > > On Fri, 6 Oct 2023, Roger Heflin wrote: > > > W

Re: F38 installer claims it cannot find a hard disk

2023-10-06 Thread Michael Hennebry
ily) 2 port SATA Controller [IDE mode] (rev 02) [liveuser@localhost-live hennebry]$ The first two data lines are from running F35. The last two data lines are from running live F38. They seem to be the same. And you don't have any bios/software raid enabled and have the disk set to AHCI if

Re: F38 installer claims it cannot find a hard disk

2023-10-06 Thread Roger Heflin
What does "lspci | grep -i sata" show in the livecd? And you don't have any bios/software raid enabled and have the disk set to AHCI if available in the bios? ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an

Re: F38 installer claims it cannot find a hard disk

2023-10-06 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Fri, 6 Oct 2023, Roger Heflin wrote: What kind of device/controller are those filesystems on? They would have to be something weird for anaconda to not have the right driver. it is not a sdhc/mmc type card is it? 'Tis an internal Seagate model ST380815AS. 80e9 bytes. 7200 rpm. SATA. I

Re: F38 installer claims it cannot find a hard disk

2023-10-06 Thread Roger Heflin
d you also need a /boot/efi again outside of LVM. > > I do not have LVM. > > > No harddisk means no harddisk with free space(unpartitioned). If > > partitions are unused then you would have to assign them and/or rework > > them. > > > > What does the /hom

Re: F38 installer claims it cannot find a hard disk

2023-10-06 Thread Michael Hennebry
need a /boot/efi again outside of LVM. I do not have LVM. No harddisk means no harddisk with free space(unpartitioned). If partitions are unused then you would have to assign them and/or rework them. What does the /home directory/disk look like? (partition table, lvm setup (if lvm)?) sda1

Re: F38 installer claims it cannot find a hard disk

2023-10-06 Thread Roger Heflin
harddisk means no harddisk with free space(unpartitioned). If partitions are unused then you would have to assign them and/or rework them. What does the /home directory/disk look like? (partition table, lvm setup (if lvm)?) On Fri, Oct 6, 2023 at 10:06 AM Michael Hennebry wrote: > > On Fri,

Re: F38 installer claims it cannot find a hard disk

2023-10-06 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Fri, 6 Oct 2023, Stephen Morris wrote: On 6/10/23 13:12, Michael Hennebry wrote: I burned the F38 workstation installer onto a DVD. On booting it can find my home directory on the only hard disk. When I tell the installer to install, it claims it cannot find a hard drive.  Grrr. The first

Re: F38 installer claims it cannot find a hard disk

2023-10-06 Thread Stephen Morris
On 6/10/23 13:12, Michael Hennebry wrote: I burned the F38 workstation installer onto a DVD. On booting it can find my home directory on the only hard disk. When I tell the installer to install, it claims it cannot find a hard drive.  Grrr. The first time I got the message, I just rebooted. On

Re: F38 installer claims it cannot find a hard disk

2023-10-05 Thread Barry
> On 6 Oct 2023, at 03:12, Michael Hennebry > wrote: > > I burned the F38 workstation installer onto a DVD. > On booting it can find my home directory on the only hard disk. > When I tell the installer to install, > it claims it cannot find a hard drive. Grrr. > &g

F38 installer claims it cannot find a hard disk

2023-10-05 Thread Michael Hennebry
I burned the F38 workstation installer onto a DVD. On booting it can find my home directory on the only hard disk. When I tell the installer to install, it claims it cannot find a hard drive. Grrr. The first time I got the message, I just rebooted. On the second boot, I looked for my home

Re: Cloning disk with dd give me "Error while writing to /dev/sdc: Unit full"

2023-09-14 Thread Jon Ingason via users
Den 2023-09-14 kl. 18:24, skrev Chris Adams: Once upon a time, Jon Ingason said: I am trying to clone /dev/sdb, Hitachi HTS545050A7E380, 465.76 GiB, to /dev/sbc, Samsung SSD 870 EVO 500G, 465.76 GiB. $ sudo dd if=/dev/sdb bs=4MB of=/dev/sbc bs=4MB conv=noerror,sync Is it really "sbc", or is

Re: Cloning disk with dd give me "Error while writing to /dev/sdc: Unit full"

2023-09-14 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Jon Ingason said: > I am trying to clone /dev/sdb, Hitachi HTS545050A7E380, 465.76 GiB, > to /dev/sbc, Samsung SSD 870 EVO 500G, 465.76 GiB. > > $ sudo dd if=/dev/sdb bs=4MB of=/dev/sbc bs=4MB conv=noerror,sync Is it really "sbc", or is it "sdc"? I expect it's the latter, and

Re: Cloning disk with dd give me "Error while writing to /dev/sdc: Unit full"

2023-09-14 Thread Roger Heflin
I would not use the sync option, it may be the problem (especially with the large blocksize) and it will significantly slow down everything. Likely the disk full is that it simply cannot handle a sync 4M write. And you only need bs once and I typically use bs=1M. bs is for both streams. On Thu

Cloning disk with dd give me "Error while writing to /dev/sdc: Unit full"

2023-09-14 Thread Jon Ingason via users
I am trying to clone /dev/sdb, Hitachi HTS545050A7E380, 465.76 GiB, to /dev/sbc, Samsung SSD 870 EVO 500G, 465.76 GiB. $ sudo dd if=/dev/sdb bs=4MB of=/dev/sbc bs=4MB conv=noerror,sync dd: Error while writing to /dev/sdc: Unit full 2+0 records in 1+0 records out 4194304 bytes (4,2 MB, 4,0 MiB) c

Re: Need help; safe way to shrink my fedora38 installation disk

2023-07-31 Thread KarlderLetzte
gt; > For now, i will install the new linux on a external disc, boot and > > then > > copy content from the f38 installation. > > > > > Am I correct in thinking you were able to shrink the btrfs > filesystem, > but are unable to find software to adjust the pa

Re: Need help; safe way to shrink my fedora38 installation disk

2023-07-30 Thread George N. White III
38 installation. > Am I correct in thinking you were able to shrink the btrfs filesystem, but are unable to find software to adjust the partition size to match? You could use the new disk for a backup, then shrink the oversized partition. See: https://feldspaten.org/2018/06/01/resizing-btrfs-

Re: Need help; safe way to shrink my fedora38 installation disk

2023-07-29 Thread KarlderLetzte
Hello everybody, thank you all for the information. Unfortunately i do not fully understand, how to manage the shrinking. For now, i will install the new linux on a external disc, boot and then copy content from the f38 installation. the old way, long and work intensive (finding the correct partiti

Re: Need help; safe way to shrink my fedora38 installation disk

2023-07-28 Thread stan via users
On Thu, 27 Jul 2023 18:47:50 +0200 KarlderLetzte wrote: > Am Donnerstag, dem 27.07.2023 um 08:27 -0700 schrieb stan via users: > > On Wed, 26 Jul 2023 19:21:50 +0200 > > KarlderLetzte wrote: > > > > > hello everybody, > > > > > > i n

Re: Need help; safe way to shrink my fedora38 installation disk

2023-07-27 Thread KarlderLetzte
Am Donnerstag, dem 27.07.2023 um 08:27 -0700 schrieb stan via users: > On Wed, 26 Jul 2023 19:21:50 +0200 > KarlderLetzte wrote: > > > hello everybody, > > > > i need some space on disk for a second installation. > > therefore i want to safely shrink my fedora i

Re: Need help; safe way to shrink my fedora38 installation disk

2023-07-27 Thread stan via users
On Wed, 26 Jul 2023 19:21:50 +0200 KarlderLetzte wrote: > hello everybody, > > i need some space on disk for a second installation. > therefore i want to safely shrink my fedora installation. > > here is the disk layout: [snip] > i tried it with gparted, but if i want

Re: Need help; safe way to shrink my fedora38 installation disk

2023-07-27 Thread Karlderletzte
Thanks you for the info. Fyi: my laptop use UEFI. Von: Roger Heflin An: Community support for Fedora users Datum: 27.07.2023 12:48:01 Betreff: Re: Need help; safe way to shrink my fedora38 installation disk I got the partition that was last wrong

Re: Need help; safe way to shrink my fedora38 installation disk

2023-07-27 Thread Roger Heflin
go wrong during the install, and if it goes wrong there are a very limited number of experts that can sort out what is salvageable or not. Make sure to have a tested (to boot) livecd (not a installer iso) such that you can boot up and examine the disk. On Thu, Jul 27, 2023 at 5:28 AM George N

Re: Need help; safe way to shrink my fedora38 installation disk

2023-07-27 Thread Roger Heflin
own boot device (usually a usb disk), and I tend to not run 2 installs for very long. I have done 3 install with the same grub setup (legacy boot) but that setup was designed to have 3 installs and the grub merging of the 3 /boots into one set of boot options had to be done entirely manually as each

Re: Need help; safe way to shrink my fedora38 installation disk

2023-07-27 Thread George N. White III
On Wed, Jul 26, 2023 at 2:22 PM KarlderLetzte wrote: > hello everybody, > > i need some space on disk for a second installation. > therefore i want to safely shrink my fedora installation. > > here is the disk layout: > [...] > my question: > is there a safe way to sh

Re: Need help; safe way to shrink my fedora38 installation disk

2023-07-26 Thread Karlderletzte
Hmmh, that is very sad. I never touched something, only installed with the preferred options from the installer... Fyi: I want to make space for a second linux Installation, not an additional partition. Does it mean that i have erase the whole disk, because it is btrfs

Re: Need help; safe way to shrink my fedora38 installation disk

2023-07-26 Thread Karlderletzte
Hello, i want to shrink the big partition Nr 6, as small as possible without touching the used space. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: h

Re: Need help; safe way to shrink my fedora38 installation disk

2023-07-26 Thread Roger Heflin
fses (xfs for sure, btrfs seems to have limits and needs to be carefully done--don't ask me how I run away from anything btrfs). On Wed, Jul 26, 2023 at 12:22 PM KarlderLetzte wrote: > > hello everybody, > > i need some space on disk for a second installation. > therefore i

Re: Need help; safe way to shrink my fedora38 installation disk

2023-07-26 Thread Joe Zeff
On 07/26/2023 11:21 AM, KarlderLetzte wrote: i tried it with gparted, but if i want to shrink, a warning appears, that it is possible,to not boot anymore. Which partition do you want to shrink, how big is it and how much do you want to shrink it? __

Need help; safe way to shrink my fedora38 installation disk

2023-07-26 Thread KarlderLetzte
hello everybody, i need some space on disk for a second installation. therefore i want to safely shrink my fedora installation. here is the disk layout: Label: 'fedora_localhost-live' uuid: ceb296ac-852b-420c-af45- 3cb3d5cb1f9d Total devices 1 FS bytes used 156.97GiB

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