Dave Patterson wrote:
On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 08:15:04AM +0200, Raven wrote:
Hi all.
I am in a sticky situation. I run remotely a server and one of the disks
is starting to fail.
[...]
Example: assume /usr is the only thing on /dev/sdc1,
/dev/sdd1 (or some partition on another disk) has eno
On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 1:15 AM, Raven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Before starting blindly cp'ing files, I would like to hear your advice
> on the process and if I have any chance of succeeding (or if you have
> another method that would work better)
Look into dd_rescue. Use it to make disk image
On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 08:15:04AM +0200, Raven wrote:
> Hi all.
> I am in a sticky situation. I run remotely a server and one of the disks
> is starting to fail.
> Every couple days (or more, depends on the www traffic level) scsi drive
> sdc fails (with "rejecting I/O to device bla bla bla"). Thi
On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 10:30:12AM +0200, François Cerbelle wrote:
> Le Ven 12 septembre 2008 10:08, Raven a écrit :
> [...]
> > It worked!
> > Thank you all for your help and especially Francois for providing a very
> > fast solution :D
>
> ;-)
;-)
Regards,
Dave
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Le Ven 12 septembre 2008 10:08, Raven a écrit :
[...]
> It worked!
> Thank you all for your help and especially Francois for providing a very
> fast solution :D
;-)
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On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 09:41:30AM +0200, François Cerbelle wrote:
> But this solution SHOULD work IN THEORY !!! I never tried it. someone
> might have a better idea.
I just tried it on a small system here, and it works. You do need to do the
reboot at the end, however, or init won't point to
On Fri, 2008-09-12 at 09:41 +0200, François Cerbelle wrote:
> Le Ven 12 septembre 2008 09:28, Raven a écrit :
> [...]
> > After I rsync, how do I tell the system to use the new /usr folder
> > (since I am not doing the whole "remount" thing)?
>
> As you seem to be unable to have a physical access
2008/9/12 Raven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Fri, 2008-09-12 at 09:49 +0200, François Cerbelle wrote:
>> Le Ven 12 septembre 2008 09:36, Paulo Silva a écrit :
>> [...]
>> > # rsync -av /usr/ /newusr/
>> > # umount /usr
>>
>> I think he will not be able to do it because of processes running from
>> /us
On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 08:36:58AM +0100, Paulo Silva wrote:
> You can umount the old /usr and move the new directory to it's place:
>
> # rsync -av /usr/ /newusr/
> # umount /usr
> # rmdir /usr
> # mv /newusr /usr
Or more quickly, after changing /etc/fstab, deleting the /usr mount:
# rsync -a
On Fri, 2008-09-12 at 09:49 +0200, François Cerbelle wrote:
> Le Ven 12 septembre 2008 09:36, Paulo Silva a écrit :
> [...]
> > # rsync -av /usr/ /newusr/
> > # umount /usr
>
> I think he will not be able to do it because of processes running from
> /usr. And I think he can not stop all processes
Le Ven 12 septembre 2008 09:36, Paulo Silva a écrit :
[...]
> # rsync -av /usr/ /newusr/
> # umount /usr
I think he will not be able to do it because of processes running from
/usr. And I think he can not stop all processes by going to runlevel 1 as
he seems to only have a network access to its s
Le Ven 12 septembre 2008 09:28, Raven a écrit :
[...]
> After I rsync, how do I tell the system to use the new /usr folder
> (since I am not doing the whole "remount" thing)?
As you seem to be unable to have a physical access to the server, I
suppose you can not go to single user mode. If you try
Sex, 2008-09-12 às 09:28 +0200, Raven escreveu:
> Thanks for the replies. I will definitely use rsync.
> Also, I am planning to put the new /usr not on a new partition but on
> the same one that currently has / .
> After I rsync, how do I tell the system to use the new /usr folder
> (since I am not
Sex, 2008-09-12 às 09:05 +0200, François Cerbelle escreveu:
> Le Ven 12 septembre 2008 08:15, Raven a écrit :
> [...]
> > Before starting blindly cp'ing files, I would like to hear your advice
> > on the process and if I have any chance of succeeding (or if you have
> > another method that would wo
On Fri, 2008-09-12 at 14:14 +0700, Dave Patterson wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 09:05:14AM +0200, François Cerbelle wrote:
>
> > to do the copy, but as your disk will probably fail during the process,
> > rsync is a better choice as it can resume the copy.
Thanks for the replies. I will defi
On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 09:05:14AM +0200, François Cerbelle wrote:
> to do the copy, but as your disk will probably fail during the process,
> rsync is a better choice as it can resume the copy.
Good point.
Regards,
Dave
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Le Ven 12 septembre 2008 08:15, Raven a écrit :
[...]
> Before starting blindly cp'ing files, I would like to hear your advice
> on the process and if I have any chance of succeeding (or if you have
> another method that would work better)
Hi,
You can use :
# ( cd /usr; tar cf - . ) | ( cd /mnt/
On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 08:15:04AM +0200, Raven wrote:
> Hi all.
> I am in a sticky situation. I run remotely a server and one of the disks
> is starting to fail.
Sticky indeed.
> Every couple days (or more, depends on the www traffic level) scsi drive
> sdc fails (with "rejecting I/O to device b
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