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Right now we do a lot of hard to hard disk backup by using rsync to weekly "mirror" the source filesystem to a backup filesystem. This works fairly well for most sources. However, one issue with rsync is that simple things like changing the file name or directory name cause the whole file or directory structure to get recopied over a previous sync. Also, like for mail spools, large

I have a disk where serveral files have a file size that is much bigger then the space they actually use. THe file size is bogus. In the example below, the size is reported as 4.2MB but the file is really supposed to be on 116K which is true accoring to du and the block list from debugfs. However, doing a 'cat |wc' file actually gives me 4.2MB bytes. Where are those extra bytes coming

I am being forced by the upper management to tie our Linux system logins to the corporate Windows Active Directory accounts. The problem is our UNIX accounts do not match our corporate AD accounts in either name or underlying UID. For just plain Linux login I solved this issue using OpenLDAP with SASL PassThru so I can set my 'raines' user password in LDAP to be "{SASL}per2"

I had to move my RedHat 5 box acting as a PDC to a new IP address. It is running samba 3.5.10. After the move, none of my windows or linux samba clients worked anymore. I tried rejoining some to the domain, but would get error Unable to find a suitable server Join to domain 'MRIRESEARCH' is not valid The old PDC IP address is 132.183.202.95 and nothing is at that IP anymore (for 4

Printing to a samba print share from a client that is firewalled/ masqueraded is painfully slow. Seems the protocol requires the samba server to make an initiating connection back to the SMB server on the client which will of course fail on a firewalled/masqueraded client. The problem is that the a print job hangs till this operation times out causing printing to take several minutes for users.

When tar'ing up an ext3 filesystem on a 3ware RAID I have, I got the following errors in my system log: Apr 7 21:27:46 allo 3w-xxxx[957]: Drive error encountered on port 3 on controller ID:0. Check cables and drives for media errors. (0xa) Apr 7 21:27:46 allo kernel: 3w-xxxx: scsi0: Command failed: status = 0xc7, flags = 0x51, unit #0. Apr 7 21:27:58 allo last message repeated 3 times Apr

I have one Linux RHEL4 box setup as a PDC and several other Linux RHEL4 samba servers and Windows XP boxes joined to the domain. Ever since upgrading the Linux box to Samba 3 (they are currently running samba-3.0.10) I have problems with the Linux samba clients suddenly dropping out of the domain. Operations suddenly start failing with [2006/09/27 16:03:25, 3]

I have a CentOS 5 VM in vmware I wanted to move to work on KVM/libvirt. I used qemu-img to convert it to a qcow2 image, loaded virt-manager and created a new VM pointed at that qcow2 image. The boot paniced when it tried to mount the root filesystem also complaining about not being able to remount the swap partition. I played around and was able to get it to boot by changing the Virtual disk

I created a new LVM type storage pool on my server and would like to move my VM disk volumes in a directory-based pool into this new pool. But I cannot figure out how that is done. I find plenty of information on how to migrate live VM images from one host to another, but not on how to just move one live from one storage pool to another on the same host. If it cannot be done live, how an I

Hi folks -- My machine is a RHEL 3 with 2.4 kernel installed - with some large ext3 filesystems on drives connected internally ( >200G) Now, When this system crashed (for eg:- a CPU panic /hardware error ) - e2fsck on this filesystem seems to be taking a long time to return thereby adding to the overall downtime of this system. could there be any workarounds for my issue? say for

Hi, i have two twofold e2image related questions: 1) The man page mentions "cp (1)"'s --sparse=always option. I wonder if there are sparse aware tools which a) display the "real" amount of disk space occupied by a sparse file b) compress sparse files (other than compressing very thightly several GiB of zeros) 2) "E2fsck, mke2fs, etc.

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Hi, I have a doubt if I use the mke2fs option the right way. I formatted two different disks, one with $ mke2fs -b 4096 -E stride=16 -m 1 -T news /dev/sdd and the other with $ mke2fs -b 4096 -E stride=16 -m 1 -T largefile4 /dev/sde sdd is supposed to get files between 8k and 16k. sde will handle files with a fixed size of 32Mb. Then I tried this : $ dd if=/dev/zero of=/mount-sdx/file bs=4k

I think that is fair to say about my old accounts where names and IDs do not match. But the crazy thing is it is those accounts which work fine and it is the new accounts where I did make the names and IDs match where things do not work! I am still confused about the supplemental groups thing. Are you saying Samba will not support a mode where 'security = ads' for authentication against

My wipefs has no --force option, as a result mke2fs command in guestfish fails. Looks like 72dd398679cd0bb803daf306d12558369615ba70 needs an adjustment to make use of do_wipefs? Also str_wipefs is not used in that file. Olaf

for users defined on the PDC. However, I am setting up a second Samba server and want it to join the domain so I can use "security = domain". Lets call the PDC samba1 and the new samba client samba2. ON samba 1, I did: useradd -c 'Samba2 SAMBA' -d /dev/null -M -g 202 -s /bin/false -u 1503 samba2\$ passwd -l samba2\$ smbpasswd -a -m samba2\$ to create the trust account. Then

>Yes, if you are creating larger files. By default e2fsck assumes the average >file size is 8kB and allocates a corresponding number of inodes there. If, >for example, you are storing lots of larger files there (digital photos, MP3s, >etc) that are in the MB range you can use "-t largefile" or "-t largefile4" >to specify an average file size of 1MB or 4MB

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, I don't know if this is the right list, but here goes what happened recently to me. I have an IDE disk (hda: QUANTUM FIREBALLP AS20, ATA DISK drive / hda: 39851760 sectors (20404 MB) w/1902KiB Cache, CHS=2480/255/63, UDMA(100)) connected to 00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801BA IDE U100 (rev 12) I've decided to make a

I am trying to get a 9550SX to support a 1.5TB raid partition. I am unsure whether this is a driver problem, or an ext3 problem (as am getting some other wierdness detecting LUNs), but... fdisk recognizes the disk OK. I make a single extended partition with a single 1.5TB logical partition inside it. I then run mke2fs -j /dev/sdb It gets to writing inode tables, and wants to write 11176 block