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[CentOS] Lost all info in a file server because of LVM - HEEEELP ME, please
by Mário Gamito 01 Apr '05

01 Apr '05

Hi, I'm totally desperated. I have this file server with a total of about 200 GB of my user's files. The server has "3 in 1" discs, using LVM. Somehow, i don't know why, the LVM info is gone and i cannot access my file system. I had in LVM: sda1 -> /boot sda2 -> / sda3 -> /home (where all the Samba shares resides). sda4 -> swap sdb sdc Tha machine now starts with a single partition ( / ) mounted on /dev/root From there i can manually mount under /mnt partitions "/boot", "/", but NOT "/home". Trying to mount /home, i always get the busy error. I cannot unmount the "/" on /dev/root, obviously. How can i (if possible) restore the LVM info ? I have a backup from Sunday, so, it's really not a life or death case, but nevertheless it is a real annoiance, and the server is already down for 24 hours :( Any help would be apreciated. Warm Regards, Mário Gamito

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by Barot Ashish 01 Apr '05

01 Apr '05

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Where is gnumeric in CentOS 4
by Joe Harb 01 Apr '05

01 Apr '05

The release notes state that gnumeric has been included in this distribution. Was it forgotten?

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Re: [Centos] Restart centos from Commandline
by rehj rehj 31 Mar '05

31 Mar '05

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Odd Question... MAX Ram Disk Size
by Scott Heisler 31 Mar '05

31 Mar '05

Greetings, Before I get slammed, I've looked all over the internet for the answer to this (googled and more) and haven't been able to find what I'm looking for. Here's what I need. I have a server that I use to hold workstation images. I use a Linux boot CD combined with some scripts I wrote and some disk imaging software to allow me to image windows workstations. Anyway, when I roll out a new workstation Image, I may roll it out to 20 or 30 computers at once, all using the same image file (base build). I want to put that image file on a RAMDISK on my server. The image file is between 3 and 4 gig. I have 6 gig in the server, so plenty of memory. I modified GRUB to increase the size of my ram disk... First I started with a 200mb, that worked group, formatted, etc. Then I tried 1gig - everything looks like it works but when I mount it, it tells me the volume is not formatted or has invalid super blocks. Perhaps I'm exceeding the allowable built-in ramdisk limit, but I couldn't find any docs anywhere that would tell me what that limit was. Does anyone know of an alternative ramdisk product, that does not load at boot time, where I could do what I need (as described above)? Or does anyone know how I can get a 4-gig Ramdisk to work properly? I'm running the new CentOS 4 on the server. Thanks for any help. I did spend 2 days doing Internet research with no results, prior to posting here. Thanks. Scott

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RE: [CentOS] Odd Question... MAX Ram Disk Size
by Scott Heisler 31 Mar '05

31 Mar '05

Thanks everyone for the great INFO... This was EXACTLY what I needed and had a very hard time finding out. The mount -t tmpfs -o size=1g none /ramdisk worked perfectly. I needed temporary ram space to use as disk space. Thanks! Just to explain further, the "images" are not ISO's... These are hard drive images, like GHOST files (only using a Linux free application). But to further explain, even if I mounted an ISO, there would still be disk IO.. I'm trying to eliminate the disk I/O from the equation so I can be downloading 20 or 25 machines at the same time. Since the server us a dual 2.0gig Xeon and I have gig all the way from the server to the desktop.. This should scream! Thanks again. Scott -----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces(a)centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Craig White Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2005 10:38 AM To: centos(a)centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] Odd Question... MAX Ram Disk Size On Thu, 2005-03-31 at 09:59 -0600, Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote: > Scott Heisler wrote: > > I want to put that image file on a RAMDISK on my server. > > The image file is between 3 and 4 gig. I have 6 gig in the server, > > so plenty of memory. I modified GRUB to increase the size of my ram > > disk... First I started with a 200mb, that worked group, formatted, etc. > > Then I tried 1gig - everything looks like it works but when I mount > > it, it tells me the volume is not formatted or has invalid super blocks. > > Perhaps I'm exceeding the allowable built-in ramdisk limit, but I > > couldn't find any docs anywhere that would tell me what that limit was. > > When you say ramdisk, do you mean ramdisk as in ramsdisk device > (hardware) that keeps information accross system reboots and/or power > cycles, or ramdisk as in file system that exists only in your server's > RAM and is lost each time machine is rebooted? Not clear from your > question. You mention having "enough RAM for it in server" (which > would imply later), but you also say that you are looking for "device" > (which would imply former). > > If you are looking for self-contained device, there are many solid > state disks (SSD) available on the market. Basically, they look like > disk, the "only" difference is instead of having magnetic plates, they > store information into internal RAM (either battery backed up, or of > the non-volatile type). System sees them as normal IDE/SATA/SCSI/FC > drive (depending on the interface), and you don't need to have > anything special to access them. The speed is usually limited by > interface used and type of memory used (obviously EEPROM based SSD > will have much worse write times then DRAM with battery backup based SSD). > > If you are looking for solution to use your server's memory as > temporary RAM disk (you don't care information being lost when you > reboot or power cycle), something like this works nicely: > > # mount -t tmpfs -o size=8g none /ramdisk > > That would create 8GB memory-based file system. The memory file > system uses is swappable. So just make sure free RAM + free swap is > larger than 8GB, and you should be fine. Of course, you can create > smaller or larger system too. Basically it is the same thing as tmpfs > on Solaris systems. I kind of like to mount /tmp this way (of course, > with much smaller size, usually 32-128MB, depending on server's needs). > > Or you can place it in fstab to have it always available: > > none /ramdisk tmpfs size=8g 0 0 ---- this is great info and I suppose I might find use for it someday but wouldn't a loop mount from an iso file (the disk image) be better for this purpose? Craig _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS(a)centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ HUNTLEIGH VIRUS & SPAM FILTERING SERVER NOTIFICATION ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This message has been scanned by our system and has been determined to be free of dangerous content and spam. This notification is attached to the bottom of all inbound Huntleigh e-mail messages, even spam. If you see a different notification above, please disregard this message footer. If you feel this message is actually spam, please help the system "learn" so future spam messages are caught. Please forward this e-mail to spam(a)pop3.huntleighusa.com. Be sure to remove any signature information outlook may add. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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OK. time to make some contribution (centos4/ppc)
by Pasi Pirhonen 31 Mar '05

31 Mar '05

Hi, Even now someone is actually installing (i see that from the ftp-server logs) the centos-4/ppc beta-version from announced place. You people have to stand up and _TELL_ me what kind of hardware _IS_ working, so we would know more than already know - 43p works. I can't believe that all those, who installs, does have 43p too? Please? Something, so if it's actually working on something else than already known 43p, we'd really like to hear about it. If it's not working, we'd still ike to hear about it as one can't fix anything not known to be broken. Someone something, so eventually there would be release? -- Pasi Pirhonen - upi(a)iki.fi - http://iki.fi/upi/

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CentOS-2 errata
by John Newbigin 31 Mar '05

31 Mar '05

The following errata for CentOS-2 have been built and uploaded to the centos mirror: RHSA-2005:330-01 Important: krb5 security update Files available: krb5-devel-1.2.2-34.i386.rpm krb5-libs-1.2.2-34.i386.rpm krb5-server-1.2.2-34.i386.rpm krb5-workstation-1.2.2-34.i386.rpm More details are available from the RedHat web site at https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/rh21as-errata.html The easy way to make sure you are up to date with all the latest patches is to run: # yum update -- John Newbigin Computer Systems Officer Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies Swinburne University of Technology Melbourne, Australia http://www.ict.swin.edu.au/staff/jnewbigin

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 1, Issue 2
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 31 Mar '05

31 Mar '05

Send CentOS-announce mailing list submissions to centos-announce(a)centos.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-announce or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to centos-announce-request(a)centos.org You can reach the person managing the list at centos-announce-owner(a)centos.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of CentOS-announce digest..." Today's Topics: 1. CentOS-3 s390(x) errata: Important: krb5 security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 2. CentOS-3 i386 errata: Important: krb5 security update (Tru Huynh) 3. CentOS-3 x86_64 errata: Important: krb5 security update (Tru Huynh) 4. CentOS-3 x86_64 errata: Moderate: XFree86 security update (Tru Huynh) 5. CentOS-3 i386 errata: Moderate: XFree86 security update (Tru Huynh) 6. CentOS-3 s390(x) errata: Moderate: XFree86 security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 7. VERY Important: CESA naming conventions (donavan nelson) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 15:15:57 +0300 From: Pasi Pirhonen <upi(a)iki.fi> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CentOS-3 s390(x) errata: Important: krb5 security update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20050330121557.GQ6734(a)core.upi.iki.fi> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Security update for CentOS 3 s390(x) https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-330.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: s390: updates/s390/RPMS/krb5-devel-1.2.7-42.s390.rpm updates/s390/RPMS/krb5-libs-1.2.7-42.s390.rpm updates/s390/RPMS/krb5-server-1.2.7-42.s390.rpm updates/s390/RPMS/krb5-workstation-1.2.7-42.s390.rpm s390x: updates/s390x/RPMS/krb5-devel-1.2.7-42.s390x.rpm updates/s390x/RPMS/krb5-libs-1.2.7-42.s390x.rpm updates/s390x/RPMS/krb5-server-1.2.7-42.s390x.rpm updates/s390x/RPMS/krb5-workstation-1.2.7-42.s390x.rpm -- Pasi Pirhonen - upi(a)iki.fi - http://iki.fi/upi/

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RE: [CentOS] CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 1, Issue 2
by Marc Powell 31 Mar '05

31 Mar '05

> -----Original Message----- > From: centos-bounces(a)centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On > Behalf Of Collins Richey > Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2005 7:36 AM > To: CentOS mailing list > Subject: Re: [CentOS] CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 1, Issue 2 > > On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 08:33:42 -0500, Douglas E. Warner > <dwarner(a)ctinetworks.com> wrote: > > Admin, > > > > I appologize if I'm missing something, but I hadn't signed up for the > digest > > and can't find that it is currently enabled for my email address > > (dwarner(a)ctinetworks.com). I'd appreciate it if you could help me track > down > > where this is enabled. > > If it helps, this only started happening after the maillist conversion > to the > > new host. > > > > I'm getting them, too. My guess is that the conversion turned digests > on for everyone. Perhaps they'll post a howto to remove this. If not, > it's no big deal to hit the bix X once a day. Wasn't there an email yesterday indicating that a daily digest of the announce list was emailed here for the benefit of those who did not want to sign up for two lists? -- Marc

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