swapping

2015-01-15 Thread Patrick Dupre
Hello, Very often I reach a situation where I cannot work because fedora is swapping permanently. I attach the top file. I need to restart the machine to have it fix! Thank for your help. === Patrick DUPRÉ

swapping

2015-02-13 Thread Patrick Dupre
Hello, I guess that the permanent swapping is not due to setroubleshooter but ma Go of RAM and teh swapping is just increasing permanently reaching 5Go (20 firefox processes are running requiring 5% of Mem each) How can I trouble shoot this permanent issue on this computer? Thank

Swapping HDD....

2012-12-26 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
I am currently using a Gateway T-6321 laptop with a 320 GB SATA HD. I'm finding it's running out of room, with all the pdf's and other files I have accumulated. I want to swap it out to a 750GB SATA HDD. How can I do this when I don't have another laptop with the same exact specs as the Gatewa

Re: swapping

2015-01-15 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Patrick Dupre writes: Hello, Very often I reach a situation where I cannot work because fedora is swapping permanently. I attach the top file. I need to restart the machine to have it fix! Wow, setroubleshoot ate ten gigs of virtual memory on a machine with 8gb of physical ram

Re: swapping

2015-01-15 Thread Patrick Dupre
Community support for Fedora users" > Subject: Re: swapping > > Patrick Dupre writes: > > > Hello, > > > > Very often I reach a situation where I cannot work because fedora > > is swapping permanently. > > I attach the top file. > > > > I need t

Re: swapping

2015-01-15 Thread Michael Cronenworth
On 01/15/2015 06:06 AM, Patrick Dupre wrote: Very often I reach a situation where I cannot work because fedora is swapping permanently. I attach the top file. I need to restart the machine to have it fix! I've seen this on my box, too, but only once. Kill the setroubleshoot process a

Re: swapping

2015-01-15 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 15.01.2015, Patrick Dupre wrote: > I need to restart the machine to have it fix! If you do not use selinux for something useful, add a "selinux=0" to your kernel boot parameters. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin

Re: swapping

2015-01-15 Thread Chris Murphy
On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 2:08 PM, Heinz Diehl wrote: > On 15.01.2015, Patrick Dupre wrote: > >> I need to restart the machine to have it fix! > > If you do not use selinux for something useful, add a "selinux=0" to > your kernel boot parameters. That's bad advice. First use enforcing=0 and then al

Re: swapping

2015-01-15 Thread Daniel J Walsh
ion where I cannot work because fedora >> is swapping permanently. >> I attach the top file. >> >> I need to restart the machine to have it fix! > > I've seen this on my box, too, but only once. Kill the setroubleshoot > process and it will

Re: swapping

2015-01-15 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Patrick Dupre writes: How I can do so? Before I rebooted the machine after I clicked on troubleshooting alerts and a report had been sent. but it did not change the situation.. Depending, sometimes, I can recover the memory by closing firefox, but other times I have to reboot. The selinux a

Re: swapping

2015-01-15 Thread Michael Cronenworth
On 01/15/2015 04:15 PM, Daniel J Walsh wrote: Usually if you are in this situation, you have a bad labeling problem. touch /.autorelabel; reboot Will fix the labels, or you could just do restorecon -R / Except that is not the case in this instance. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedorapro

Re: swapping

2015-01-15 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 15 January 2015, Heinz Diehl sent: > If you do not use selinux for something useful, add a "selinux=0" to > your kernel boot parameters. Bad advice! It's like saying that if you do not use the earth wiring in your house, rip it out. Of course *you* do not *use* it, it's t

Re: swapping

2015-01-15 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 16.01.2015, Tim wrote: > Of course *you* do not *use* it, it's there as a protective device > against *things* on your system. Any recent Linux distribution can be secured without using selinux. Selinux requires at least basic knowledge and administration. Most of the people I installed Linux

Re: swapping

2015-01-16 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2015-01-16 at 08:28 +0100, Heinz Diehl wrote: > On 16.01.2015, Tim wrote: > > > Of course *you* do not *use* it, it's there as a protective device > > against *things* on your system. > > Any recent Linux distribution can be secured without using selinux. > Selinux requires at least basi

Re: swapping

2015-01-16 Thread Daniel J Walsh
On 01/16/2015 07:47 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Fri, 2015-01-16 at 08:28 +0100, Heinz Diehl wrote: >> On 16.01.2015, Tim wrote: >> >>> Of course *you* do not *use* it, it's there as a protective device >>> against *things* on your system. >> Any recent Linux distribution can be secured wi

Re: swapping

2015-01-16 Thread poma
On 16.01.2015 19:47, Daniel J Walsh wrote: > > On 01/16/2015 07:47 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >> On Fri, 2015-01-16 at 08:28 +0100, Heinz Diehl wrote: >>> On 16.01.2015, Tim wrote: >>> Of course *you* do not *use* it, it's there as a protective device against *things* on your system

Re: swapping

2015-01-16 Thread Daniel J Walsh
On 01/16/2015 01:57 PM, poma wrote: > On 16.01.2015 19:47, Daniel J Walsh wrote: >> On 01/16/2015 07:47 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >>> On Fri, 2015-01-16 at 08:28 +0100, Heinz Diehl wrote: On 16.01.2015, Tim wrote: > Of course *you* do not *use* it, it's there as a protective de

Re: swapping

2015-01-16 Thread poma
On 16.01.2015 20:35, Daniel J Walsh wrote: > > On 01/16/2015 01:57 PM, poma wrote: >> On 16.01.2015 19:47, Daniel J Walsh wrote: >>> On 01/16/2015 07:47 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Fri, 2015-01-16 at 08:28 +0100, Heinz Diehl wrote: > On 16.01.2015, Tim wrote: > >> Of course

Re: swapping

2015-01-16 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 01/15/2015 11:28 PM, Heinz Diehl wrote: Selinux requires at least basic knowledge and administration. Most of the people I installed Linux for didn't even know it was there or what it's good for. If you do not use file system permissions for something useful, chmod -R a+w / File system perm

Re: swapping

2015-01-16 Thread John Morris
On Fri, 2015-01-16 at 16:31 -0800, Gordon Messmer wrote: > If your computer is single-user anyway, why does it need a security > subsystem? > *eyeroll* That actually isn't as crazy as you seem to think. Security should always be seen as tradeoff between the cost of the security vs the potential

Re: swapping

2015-01-16 Thread Tim
On Fri, 2015-01-16 at 08:28 +0100, Heinz Diehl wrote: > Selinux requires at least basic knowledge and administration. I can't agree with that. In general, it requires none. The average user doesn't have to do anything, it just does what it's supposed to do. They're not likely to even know it's t

Re: swapping

2015-01-17 Thread Joe Zeff
On 01/16/2015 04:31 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote: If your computer is single-user anyway, why does it need a security subsystem? Sometimes it protects you from badly-written software. My desktop uses BOINC to run various projects for the World Community Grid. One project started throwing up con

Re: swapping

2015-01-17 Thread Andrew R Paterson
On Friday 16 January 2015 16:31:03 Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 01/15/2015 11:28 PM, Heinz Diehl wrote: > > Selinux requires at least basic knowledge and administration. Most of > > the people I installed Linux for didn't even know it was there or what > > it's good for. > > If you do not use file s

Re: swapping

2015-01-17 Thread poma
On 17.01.2015 12:54, Andrew R Paterson wrote: > On Friday 16 January 2015 16:31:03 Gordon Messmer wrote: >> On 01/15/2015 11:28 PM, Heinz Diehl wrote: >>> Selinux requires at least basic knowledge and administration. Most of >>> the people I installed Linux for didn't even know it was there or what

Re: swapping

2015-01-17 Thread Ntlworld
Right - I think I might start looking at Ubuntu! Sent from my iPhone > On 17 Jan 2015, at 14:10, poma wrote: > >> On 17.01.2015 12:54, Andrew R Paterson wrote: >>> On Friday 16 January 2015 16:31:03 Gordon Messmer wrote: On 01/15/2015 11:28 PM, Heinz Diehl wrote: Selinux requires at l

Re: swapping

2015-01-17 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 01/17/2015 03:54 AM, Andrew R Paterson wrote: then basically - I wanted OUT!. I feel your pain. I used to really like computers, until we networked them all together, and security became something we had to care about. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or

Re: swapping

2015-01-18 Thread Chris Murphy
On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 4:54 AM, Andrew R Paterson < andy.pater...@ntlworld.com> wrote: > Having watched this debate I find I must add my own 10c > I have spent over 30 years working on unix systems starting with xenix, bsd > and ending up with linux . > We survived quite happily using the wel

Re: swapping

2015-01-18 Thread poma
On 17.01.2015 19:52, Ntlworld wrote: > Right - I think I might start looking at Ubuntu! > > Sent from my iPhone > This old man and me, were at the bar and we Were having us some beers and swaping I dont cares Talking politics, blonde and red-head chicks Old dogs and new tricks and habits we aint

Re: swapping

2015-01-21 Thread Daniel J Walsh
On 01/16/2015 03:45 PM, poma wrote: > On 16.01.2015 20:35, Daniel J Walsh wrote: >> On 01/16/2015 01:57 PM, poma wrote: >>> On 16.01.2015 19:47, Daniel J Walsh wrote: On 01/16/2015 07:47 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Fri, 2015-01-16 at 08:28 +0100, Heinz Diehl wrote: >> On 16.01

Re: swapping

2015-02-06 Thread Patrick Dupre
= > Sent: Friday, January 16, 2015 at 4:24 AM > From: "Michael Cronenworth" > To: "Community support for Fedora users" > Subject: Re: swapping > > On 01/15/2015 04:15 PM, Daniel J Walsh wrote: > > Usually if you are in this situation, you have a bad

Re: swapping

2015-02-12 Thread Patrick Dupre
ue, France === > Sent: Friday, January 16, 2015 at 4:24 AM > From: "Michael Cronenworth" > To: "Community support for Fedora users" > Subject: Re: swapping > > On 01/15/2015 04:15 PM, Daniel J Walsh wrote: > >

Re: swapping

2015-02-15 Thread Daniel J Walsh
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Re: swapping

2015-02-15 Thread Patrick Dupre
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Re: swapping

2015-02-15 Thread Chris Murphy
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Re: swapping

2015-02-17 Thread Patrick Dupre
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Re: swapping

2015-02-17 Thread Patrick Dupre
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Re: swapping

2015-02-17 Thread Daniel J Walsh
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Re: swapping

2015-02-17 Thread Patrick Dupre
ue, France === > Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2015 at 2:01 PM > From: "Daniel J Walsh" > To: "Community support for Fedora users" > Subject: Re: swapping > > > On 02/17/2015 02:16 AM, Patrick Dupre wrote: > > It is very long. >

Re: Swapping HDD....

2012-12-26 Thread fred smith
On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 09:50:07PM -0500, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: > I am currently using a Gateway T-6321 laptop with a 320 GB SATA HD. I'm > finding it's running out of room, with all the pdf's and other files I > have accumulated. I want to swap it out to a 750GB SATA HDD. How can I > do

Re: Swapping HDD....

2012-12-26 Thread Sam Varshavchik
fred smith writes: if that doesn't get you where you need to go, you might try: --with the new drive connected via USB --boot from the aforementioned live CD --create the partitions as you want them --pray a while... --copy all the files from each partition on the OLD drive into the matching p

Re: Swapping HDD....

2012-12-26 Thread staticsafe
On 12/26/12 21:50, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: > I am currently using a Gateway T-6321 laptop with a 320 GB SATA HD. I'm > finding it's running out of room, with all the pdf's and other files I > have accumulated. I want to swap it out to a 750GB SATA HDD. How can I > do this when I don't have an

Re: Swapping HDD....

2012-12-26 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 12/27/2012 12:04 AM, staticsafe wrote: On 12/26/12 21:50, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: I am currently using a Gateway T-6321 laptop with a 320 GB SATA HD. I'm finding it's running out of room, with all the pdf's and other files I have accumulated. I want to swap it out to a 750GB SATA HDD. H

Re: Swapping HDD....

2012-12-26 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 27.12.2012, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: > I want to swap it out to a 750GB SATA HDD. How can I do this > when I don't have another laptop with the same exact specs as the Gateway? - Connect your new HDD to your laptop (e.g. as an external drive). - Get the new HDD partitioned and formatted -

Re: Swapping HDD....

2012-12-27 Thread Michael D. Setzer II
On 26 Dec 2012 at 21:50, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: Date sent: Wed, 26 Dec 2012 21:50:07 -0500 From: "Eddie G. O'Connor Jr." To: Community support for Fedora users Subject:Swapping HDD > I am curr

Re: Swapping HDD....

2012-12-27 Thread Paweł Brodacki
2012/12/27 Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. : > WOW!so much information to digest! Thanks to one and all, but after > reading the responses, I think the Clonezilla way might be for me, I'm not > too familiar with the Terminal and the command lines and suchalthough I > think it would be AWESOME to be

Re: Swapping HDD....

2012-12-27 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 12/27/2012 11:15 AM, Paweł Brodacki wrote: 2012/12/27 Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. : WOW!so much information to digest! Thanks to one and all, but after reading the responses, I think the Clonezilla way might be for me, I'm not too familiar with the Terminal and the command lines and suchal

Re: Swapping HDD....

2012-12-27 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 28.12.2012 00:22, schrieb Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.: >> Besides, I agree with your conclusion, that Clonezilla may be the best >> way for you. I used it and I like it. >> > I am thankful for all the comments, I have just finished my backup of my > entire system, I'm still "skiffy" when it > comes

Re: Swapping HDD....

2012-12-29 Thread Maciek Borzęcki
On Fri, 2012-12-28 at 00:37 +0100, Reindl Harald wrote: > dd if=/dev/sd of=/dev/sd bs=16M > and wait. there is no progress visible! Well, not exactly. One can use kill -USR1 to see the current progress report. > > dd if=/dev/sda | ssh root@192.168.196.129 "dd of=/dev/sda bs=16M"

Re: [Bulk] Swapping HDD....

2012-12-26 Thread Phil Savoie
On 12/26/2012 09:50 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: I am currently using a Gateway T-6321 laptop with a 320 GB SATA HD. I'm finding it's running out of room, with all the pdf's and other files I have accumulated. I want to swap it out to a 750GB SATA HDD. How can I do this when I don't have anot

Re: [Bulk] Swapping HDD....

2012-12-27 Thread Bill Davidsen
Phil Savoie wrote: On 12/26/2012 09:50 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: I am currently using a Gateway T-6321 laptop with a 320 GB SATA HD. I'm finding it's running out of room, with all the pdf's and other files I have accumulated. I want to swap it out to a 750GB SATA HDD. How can I do this wh

SATA AHCI RAID Hot Swapping

2016-08-06 Thread Philip Rhoades
and starting up the computer again. It appears I should enable the AHCI option for RAID functionality (even if I only have a single boot drive installed) and then that will allow hot swapping. My concern is the warning message I get about turning on AHCI when I start to make the change in BIOS

Re: SATA AHCI RAID Hot Swapping

2016-08-07 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 08/06/2016 09:40 AM, Philip Rhoades wrote: It appears I should enable the AHCI option for RAID functionality (even if I only have a single boot drive installed) and then that will allow hot swapping. What mode is it set to now? AHCI is typically the default. -- users mailing list users

Swapping the number of 2 partitions

2014-10-16 Thread jd1008
I am trying to avert having to dd out 2 partitions to external drive and repartition and dd them back in. What I am trying to do is renumber partition 1 as partition 2 and partition 2 as partition 1. Is this possible? parted and fdisk and sfdisk do not seem to provide such operations. -- users

Swapping to a large sparse file

2015-01-16 Thread jd1008
Can it be done? So far, swapon says: swapon: /var/swapfile: skipping - it appears to have holes. I was hoping that the kernel's swapper would allow the filesystem to allocate real blocks to the sparse file when they are needed rather than check up front to see if they already exist. Maybe the

Re: Swapping the number of 2 partitions

2014-10-16 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 16Oct2014 12:55, jd1008 wrote: I am trying to avert having to dd out 2 partitions to external drive and repartition and dd them back in. What I am trying to do is renumber partition 1 as partition 2 and partition 2 as partition 1. Is this possible? parted and fdisk and sfdisk do not seem to

Re: Swapping the number of 2 partitions

2014-10-16 Thread jd1008
On 10/16/2014 03:32 PM, Cameron Simpson wrote: On 16Oct2014 12:55, jd1008 wrote: I am trying to avert having to dd out 2 partitions to external drive and repartition and dd them back in. What I am trying to do is renumber partition 1 as partition 2 and partition 2 as partition 1. Is this pos

Re: Swapping the number of 2 partitions

2014-10-16 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 16Oct2014 18:45, jd1008 wrote: On 10/16/2014 03:32 PM, Cameron Simpson wrote: On 16Oct2014 12:55, jd1008 wrote: I am trying to avert having to dd out 2 partitions to external drive and repartition and dd them back in. What I am trying to do is renumber partition 1 as partition 2 and parti

Re: Swapping the number of 2 partitions

2014-10-16 Thread jd1008
On 10/16/2014 10:25 PM, Cameron Simpson wrote: On 16Oct2014 18:45, jd1008 wrote: On 10/16/2014 03:32 PM, Cameron Simpson wrote: On 16Oct2014 12:55, jd1008 wrote: I am trying to avert having to dd out 2 partitions to external drive and repartition and dd them back in. What I am trying to do

Re: Swapping the number of 2 partitions

2014-10-16 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 16Oct2014 22:44, jd1008 wrote: Could you explain _why_ you want to renumber the partitions? Does something have a hardwired desire to use "partition 1" or something? I think I need to do it because the windows partition for some reason will not boot as partition 2 even though the boot.ini w

Re: Swapping the number of 2 partitions

2014-10-17 Thread jd1008
On 10/16/2014 11:12 PM, Cameron Simpson wrote: On 16Oct2014 22:44, jd1008 wrote: Could you explain _why_ you want to renumber the partitions? Does something have a hardwired desire to use "partition 1" or something? I think I need to do it because the windows partition for some reason will n

Re: Swapping to a large sparse file

2015-01-16 Thread Chris Murphy
On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 1:08 PM, jd1008 wrote: > Can it be done? > > So far, swapon says: > swapon: /var/swapfile: skipping - it appears to have holes. > > I was hoping that the kernel's swapper would allow the filesystem to > allocate > real blocks to the sparse file when they are needed rather t

Re: Swapping to a large sparse file

2015-01-16 Thread jd1008
On 01/16/2015 01:57 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 1:08 PM, jd1008 wrote: Can it be done? So far, swapon says: swapon: /var/swapfile: skipping - it appears to have holes. I was hoping that the kernel's swapper would allow the filesystem to allocate real blocks to the sparse

Re: Swapping to a large sparse file

2015-01-16 Thread John Morris
On Fri, 2015-01-16 at 13:08 -0700, jd1008 wrote: > Can it be done? > > So far, swapon says: > swapon: /var/swapfile: skipping - it appears to have holes. > ... > Maybe the devs can have a look and see if they can modify the swapper to > allow sparse swap files?? > There is a reason why it acts l

Re: Swapping to a large sparse file

2015-01-16 Thread John Morris
system can ditch memory that was used once to initialize code but isn't accessed again and other similar things that can be safely tossed to swap and forgot about. But if the system is actually swapping hundreds of megabytes in and out you will quickly be in a world of pain. Plus most of the

Re: Swapping to a large sparse file

2015-01-16 Thread jd1008
wap just so the system can ditch memory that was used once to initialize code but isn't accessed again and other similar things that can be safely tossed to swap and forgot about. But if the system is actually swapping hundreds of megabytes in and out you will quickly be in a world of pain. P

Re: Swapping to a large sparse file

2015-01-17 Thread Chris Murphy
n very busy or memory bound servers. >> >> My advice is don't bother unless you know you need it. I find 512MB or >> 1GB to be plenty of swap. You need some swap just so the system can >> ditch memory that was used once to initialize code but isn't accessed >&g

Re: Swapping to a large sparse file

2015-01-17 Thread jd1008
ther unless you know you need it. I find 512MB or 1GB to be plenty of swap. You need some swap just so the system can ditch memory that was used once to initialize code but isn't accessed again and other similar things that can be safely tossed to swap and forgot about. But if the system

Re: Swapping to a large sparse file

2015-01-17 Thread Chris Murphy
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Uswsusp It looks like it support swapfiles. I still don't think a sparse file backing a loop device as a swap device will work for suspend to disk, but it may just be a matter of creativity. If this is a laptop I think you're better off with swap on the interna

Re: Swapping to a large sparse file

2015-01-17 Thread jd1008
On 01/17/2015 06:02 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Uswsusp It looks like it support swapfiles. I still don't think a sparse file backing a loop device as a swap device will work for suspend to disk, but it may just be a matter of creativity. If this is a laptop I t

Re: Swapping to a large sparse file

2015-01-17 Thread Chris Murphy
On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 6:11 PM, jd1008 wrote: > The nand flash sinks completely into the multi-flash > reader/writer, nothing to protrude. So I think this > is a good solution for my situation. Seems reasonable I guess. > I really do not > want to back up 2TB drive, repartition it to create >

Re: Swapping to a large sparse file

2015-01-17 Thread jd1008
On 01/17/2015 06:28 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 6:11 PM, jd1008 wrote: The nand flash sinks completely into the multi-flash reader/writer, nothing to protrude. So I think this is a good solution for my situation. Seems reasonable I guess. I really do not want to back up

Re: Swapping to a large sparse file

2015-01-17 Thread John Mellor
You do not need to mess it up, unless you are actually using all 2TB of the disk. Use gparted to shrink the existing partitions as required. On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 8:11 PM, jd1008 wrote: > > On 01/17/2015 06:02 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: > >> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Uswsusp >> >> It

Re: Swapping to a large sparse file

2015-01-17 Thread jd1008
On 01/17/2015 07:14 PM, John Mellor wrote: You do not need to mess it up, unless you are actually using all 2TB of the disk. Use gparted to shrink the existing partitions as required. On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 8:11 PM, jd1008 > wrote: On 01/17/2015 06:02 PM, Chri

Re: Swapping to a large sparse file

2015-01-17 Thread Chris Murphy
On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 8:05 PM, jd1008 wrote: > Yes, I knew about what gparted can do. I had tried it > on a 1tb drive, and it still took at least 2 hours. > Maybe there was an issue with the sata internal bus??? We'd need dmesg to have any idea about that. Anytime I've done only an fs shrink o

swapping the disk, with the operating system, using a clone made with CLONEZILLA

2015-01-20 Thread Angelo Moreschini
Hi, I already used successfully clonezilla to backup my OS (fedora). I did this (only for exercise til now) *restoring the OS on the original disk from which I had **take** the clone*. Now I wanted to use my clone to restore fedora on a virgin HD. (for security reasons, I did not want restore t

Re: swapping the disk, with the operating system, using a clone made with CLONEZILLA

2015-01-21 Thread Chris Murphy
On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 11:40 PM, Angelo Moreschini wrote: > Hi, > > > I already used successfully clonezilla to backup my OS (fedora). > > I did this (only for exercise til now) restoring the OS on the original disk > from which I had take the clone. > > Now I wanted to use my clone to restore fe

Re: swapping the disk, with the operating system, using a clone made with CLONEZILLA

2015-01-21 Thread Rick Stevens
On 01/21/2015 12:22 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 11:40 PM, Angelo Moreschini wrote: Hi, I already used successfully clonezilla to backup my OS (fedora). I did this (only for exercise til now) restoring the OS on the original disk from which I had take the clone. Now I wan

Re: swapping the disk, with the operating system, using a clone made with CLONEZILLA

2015-01-21 Thread Chris Murphy
On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 2:15 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: > We do need more info other than "the clone operation failed". I have > cloned a large number of machines using Clonezilla using virgin drives > (CentOS, Fedora, Ubuntu, Winblows). Many had the target drives larger > than the original. I will s

Re: swapping the disk, with the operating system, using a clone made with CLONEZILLA

2015-01-22 Thread Angelo Moreschini
thanks for your answers I explain better . recently I started with Linux and, as a beginner, I made many mistakes that forced me to reinstall many times, both fedora that all the SW already installed. That is the way I decided to “invest some time” with clonezilla in order to prevent the p

Re: swapping the disk, with the operating system, using a clone made with CLONEZILLA

2015-01-22 Thread Chris Murphy
On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 1:14 AM, Angelo Moreschini wrote: > However trying to restore on a different (new and virgin) Hard Disk, the > operation fails. That's not specific enough. There are probably hundreds or even thousands of reasons for failure. Exactly how does it fail? > > > When I I restor

Re: swapping the disk, with the operating system, using a clone made with CLONEZILLA

2015-01-22 Thread Angelo Moreschini
Hi, [?] I opened the computer with the new disk and -this time- miraculously it started perfectly. It remains me, now, only the problem of the restore grub. Amazing ... it need to have to have courage Thanks for your interest Angelo On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 11:55 AM, Chris Murphy wrote: