Re: for the adventurous: apt in readonly rootfs

2023-06-12 Thread tomas
On Mon, Jun 12, 2023 at 09:53:03PM +0200, Smits Katze wrote: > >What would be the difference to simply saying > > > > sudo -i > > The effect should be the same (and the command is more concise). > > Thanks for pointing it out. Thank you for confirmation & sorry for the nitpick :) Cheers -- t

Re: for the adventurous: apt in readonly rootfs

2023-06-12 Thread Smits Katze
>What would be the difference to simply saying > > sudo -i The effect should be the same (and the command is more concise). Thanks for pointing it out. -- PGP: FF815935D964B268656B43DCB8037830D522909E

Re: for the adventurous: apt in readonly rootfs

2023-06-12 Thread tomas
On Mon, Jun 12, 2023 at 06:54:40PM +0200, Smits Katze wrote: > Debian wiki describes how to configure a read-only rootfs and how to > run apt and unattended-upgrades in such a filesystem: > https://wiki.debian.org/ReadonlyRoot > > I would like to report that I am having considerab

for the adventurous: apt in readonly rootfs

2023-06-12 Thread Smits Katze
Debian wiki describes how to configure a read-only rootfs and how to run apt and unattended-upgrades in such a filesystem: https://wiki.debian.org/ReadonlyRoot I would like to report that I am having considerable success with the following simple command sequence: sudo su -l unshare -m # in the

Re: "Failed to start Create System Users" when booting Debian 10 rootfs from NFS mount.

2022-09-01 Thread mj
Rock: Hi, I'm trying to bring up the Debian 10 root file system on an ARM SoC board. When the rootfs was in an SD card the board worked well. When I put the rootfs on an NFS server and tried to boot the board through NFS mount, it reported error through serial port: |[FAILED] Failed to

Re: "Failed to start Create System Users" when booting Debian 10 rootfs from NFS mount.

2022-08-16 Thread tomas
On Tue, Aug 16, 2022 at 04:20:36PM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Aug 16, 2022 at 03:58:30PM -0400, Lie Rock wrote: > > So how is the process "create system users" performed when Linux/Debian > > starts? What can be contributing to this error? > > unicorn:~$ grep -ri 'create system users' /

Re: "Failed to start Create System Users" when booting Debian 10 rootfs from NFS mount.

2022-08-16 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, Aug 16, 2022 at 03:58:30PM -0400, Lie Rock wrote: > So how is the process "create system users" performed when Linux/Debian > starts? What can be contributing to this error? unicorn:~$ grep -ri 'create system users' /lib/systemd /lib/systemd/system/systemd-sysusers.service:Description=Crea

"Failed to start Create System Users" when booting Debian 10 rootfs from NFS mount.

2022-08-16 Thread Lie Rock
Hi, I'm trying to bring up the Debian 10 root file system on an ARM SoC board. When the rootfs was in an SD card the board worked well. When I put the rootfs on an NFS server and tried to boot the board through NFS mount, it reported error through serial port: [FAILED] Failed to start C

Re: Conversion to btrfs raid1 profile on added ext device renders some systems unable to boot into converted rootfs

2018-10-23 Thread Qu Wenruo
other junk was written unintentionally (forgot to > mount readonly - degraded) > > The task now seems to be finishing resolving which modules can bring in the > rest of the critical infrastructure to allow access to the drives that had > been no customized bother to bring onl

[stretch] unlock with keyfile LVM encrypted rootfs -- hung at boot

2018-10-03 Thread Mars RAM
Hello everyone! I'm currently trying to find a method to decrypt my rootfs at boot time with a keyfile on debian stretch. I've successfully implemented a method ([1] and [2]) which uses a custom script to read the first 2048bit from the usbkey memory to decrypt the disk, but I actual

[stretch] unlock with keyfile LVM encrypted rootfs -- hung at boot

2018-10-03 Thread Lfabbro
Hello everyone! I'm currently trying to find a method to decrypt my rootfs at boot time with a keyfile on debian stretch. I've successfully implemented a method ([1] and [2]) which uses a custom script to read the first 2048bit from the usbkey memory to decrypt the disk, but I actual

Re: Making initramfs agree with rootfs about time zone

2015-04-01 Thread Richard Hector
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Err, whoops. That wasn't supposed to be encrypted. Not sure how that happened ... Here we go: On 02/04/15 00:21, Richard Hector wrote: > On 01/04/15 11:56, Martin Read wrote: >> I have a dual-boot Win7/Debian jessie system. Because Windows >> doesn'

Re: Making initramfs agree with rootfs about time zone

2015-04-01 Thread Richard Hector
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Re: Making initramfs agree with rootfs about time zone

2015-03-31 Thread Janis Hamme
It's an open bug in Debian Jessie: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=767040 Until the bug is fixed you can create the file /etc/e2fsck.conf containing > [options] > broken_system_clock=1 Janis Am 01.04.2015 um 00:56 schrieb Martin Read: > I have a dual-boot Win7/Debian jessie sy

Making initramfs agree with rootfs about time zone

2015-03-31 Thread Martin Read
I have a dual-boot Win7/Debian jessie system. Because Windows doesn't deal gracefully with handling the hardware time-of-day clock the proper way (hwclock set to GMT, all TZ handling in software), this means that the hwclock changes for daylight savings time. The Debian installation itself cop

Re: Read-only rootfs on systemd [SOLVED]

2014-03-07 Thread Amit
Thanks for your help and the replies. So this issue is now resolved. Summary of Issue: Mounting root as read-only as documented in (https://wiki.debian.org/ReadonlyRoot) because rootfs is busy. Summary of Solution: 1. 'lsof +L1' showed cupsd getting stuck on /etc/passwd (deleted).

Re: Read-only rootfs on systemd

2014-03-07 Thread Brian
On Thu 06 Mar 2014 at 23:05:20 +, Amit wrote: > 0) After reboot and running 'lsof +L1': > COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NLINK NODE NAME > cupsd935 root8r REG8,1 1392 0 132095 > /etc/passwd (deleted) I upgraded my wheezy install to jess

Re: Read-only rootfs on systemd

2014-03-07 Thread Reco
On Thu, Mar 06, 2014 at 11:05:20PM +, Amit wrote: > 0) After reboot and running 'lsof +L1': > COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NLINK NODE NAME > cupsd935 root8r REG8,1 1392 0 132095 > /etc/passwd (deleted) So it's reproducible. > 1) Shut

Re: Read-only rootfs on systemd

2014-03-06 Thread Amit
Reco gmail.com> writes: > > Can you do the following, please: > > 1) Shutdown cups by systemd's way (systemctl blahblah …). > > 2) Start it by /etc/init.d/cups start. > > 3) Confirm with lsof whenever /etc/passwd is kept open. > > 4) While you're at it, invoke 'fuser /etc/passwd' to ensure t

Re: Read-only rootfs on systemd

2014-03-06 Thread Reco
On Thu, 6 Mar 2014 18:35:06 + (UTC) Amit wrote: > Reco gmail.com> writes: > > > > > https://wiki.debian.org/ReadonlyRoot#cups says: > > > > CUPS stores any kind of state files under /etc (classes.conf, > > cupsd.conf, printers.conf subscriptions.conf) and upstream is against > > any modif

Re: Read-only rootfs on systemd

2014-03-06 Thread Amit
Brian cityscape.co.uk> writes: > > On Thu 06 Mar 2014 at 01:21:03 +, Amit wrote: > > > I need cups, so is there a way around this? > > This doesn't answer your question but I have a spare Wheezy with > separate /, /home, and /var. I installed systemd, m

Re: Read-only rootfs on systemd

2014-03-06 Thread Amit
Robin gmail.com> writes: > > Just a suggestion have you tried a re-install of cups since fresh > install of systemd > Thanks for the reply. Yes, the first thing I did was install systemd and then all the other packages but anyways I tried reinstalling again but no luck. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Read-only rootfs on systemd

2014-03-06 Thread Amit
Reco gmail.com> writes: > > https://wiki.debian.org/ReadonlyRoot#cups says: > > CUPS stores any kind of state files under /etc (classes.conf, > cupsd.conf, printers.conf subscriptions.conf) and upstream is against > any modification. > > Personally I worked around similar problem by moving /et

Re: Read-only rootfs on systemd

2014-03-06 Thread Reco
Hi. On Thu, 6 Mar 2014 14:49:30 + Brian wrote: > On Thu 06 Mar 2014 at 01:21:03 +, Amit wrote: > > > I need cups, so is there a way around this? > > This doesn't answer your question but I have a spare Wheezy with > separate /, /home, and /var. I installe

Re: Read-only rootfs on systemd

2014-03-06 Thread Robin
On 6 March 2014 01:21, Amit wrote: > Amit gmail.com> writes: > > [snip] > >> >> However, setting up a fresh install of systemd, the readonly does not >> have any effect. The rootfs is still mounted as rw. All I did was >> changed /etc/fstab. Based o

Re: Read-only rootfs on systemd

2014-03-06 Thread Brian
On Thu 06 Mar 2014 at 01:21:03 +, Amit wrote: > I need cups, so is there a way around this? This doesn't answer your question but I have a spare Wheezy with separate /, /home, and /var. I installed systemd, made the rootfs ro in fstab and booted with init=/lib/systemd/systemd. The ro

Re: Read-only rootfs on systemd

2014-03-05 Thread Amit
Amit gmail.com> writes: [snip] > > However, setting up a fresh install of systemd, the readonly does not > have any effect. The rootfs is still mounted as rw. All I did was > changed /etc/fstab. Based on the systemd man pages, this should be > enough. > > How do I g

Read-only rootfs on systemd

2014-03-04 Thread Amit
Hello, I always run my debian systems with a separate /, /home, and /var. I added read-only 'ro' mount to fstab for the root / partition. So far it has been working great. However, setting up a fresh install of systemd, the readonly does not have any effect. The rootfs is still mou

Re: rootfs

2013-04-23 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Samstag, 20. April 2013 schrieb Kevin Chadwick: > > > Don't believe opinion as fact just because it's on a server hosted > > > by freedesktop.org. Rusty Russel and the FHS is a more > > > authoritative (and correct) source, I suggest you read it. > > > > I never split up / and /usr for the last

Re: rootfs

2013-04-21 Thread Thilo Six
topic. When you said in the previous mail that you are working on moving /usr to the rootfs i thought oh oh an other valueable feature goes down the drain. But your argumentation has actually convinced me. -- Regards, Thilo 4096R/0xC70B1A8F 721B 1BA0 095C 1ABA 3FC6 7C18 89A4 A2A0 C70B 1A8F

Re: rootfs

2013-04-20 Thread Kevin Chadwick
> > - With a package manager, if any of the rootfs, /usr or /var are > > damaged, you need to either restore the entire set from a backup > > or reinstall. This comes back to the fact that all locations > > under the control of the package manager are a unifie

Re: rootfs

2013-04-20 Thread Kevin Chadwick
ocated on the root > > > filesystem without any problems. It's actually the default > > > partitioning method. > > > > > > > > Do you have any concrete reasons to have /usr separate from / ? > > > > You need to look at the rootfs section, havi

Re: rootfs

2013-04-20 Thread Roger Leigh
esystem > > without any problems. It's actually the default partitioning method. > > > > > Do you have any concrete reasons to have /usr separate from / ? > > You need to look at the rootfs section, having them separate makes what > should be the most critical

Re: rootfs

2013-04-20 Thread Kevin Chadwick
hod. > > Do you have any concrete reasons to have /usr separate from / ? You need to look at the rootfs section, having them separate makes what should be the most critical filesystem (rootfs) 100s! of times larger and that quite rightly contradicts the spec (good reasons are mentioned bu

Re: rootfs

2013-04-20 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 10:50:05AM +0200, Raffaele Morelli wrote: > 2013/4/20 Jude DaShiell > > > Sorry, wrong list for reply. > > > ...though interesting :-) Although, not quite correct: http://www.lowellsmilecenter.com/blog/2008/02/04/calcium-and-stronger-teeth/ -- "If you're not careful,

Re: rootfs

2013-04-20 Thread Roger Leigh
On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 08:09:24PM +0100, Kevin Chadwick wrote: > > > /dev/mapper/debian-usr 4,6G 1,2G3,2G 28% /usr > > > > There's no real need to have /usr separate from / > > You could potentially merge the two. > > Unless you follow the installer, best practice and the Filesystem >

Re: rootfs

2013-04-20 Thread Raffaele Morelli
2013/4/20 Jude DaShiell > Sorry, wrong list for reply. ...though interesting :-)

Re: rootfs

2013-04-19 Thread Jude DaShiell
Sorry, wrong list for reply. On Fri, 19 Apr 2013, Raffaele Morelli wrote: > 2013/4/19 Darac Marjal > > > > > That seems correct. Device nodes don't tend to take up any space. Now > > try it again on the filesystem (like I showed you). > > > > > Ok, here follows the "relevant" ouput. > Apart from

Re: rootfs

2013-04-19 Thread Jude DaShiell
It's probable that the dental work that was done has misaligned several teeth which would account for the pain spreading to places it had not been before, everything either is connected or connects in the mouth by way of contacts when we eat which is why I suggested a follow up visit to find wh

Re: rootfs

2013-04-19 Thread Kevin Chadwick
> > Don't believe opinion as fact just because it's on a server hosted > > by freedesktop.org. Rusty Russel and the FHS is a more > > authoritative (and correct) source, I suggest you read it. > > I never split up / and /usr for the last century or so and they are > all working fine. Wow, your

Re: rootfs

2013-04-19 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Freitag, 19. April 2013 schrieb Kevin Chadwick: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I have a debian wheezy server up, I would like to free some space > > > on rootfs but can't guess how... > > > Here follows the filesystem, any hints? > > > &g

Re: rootfs

2013-04-19 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Freitag, 19. April 2013 schrieb Karl E. Jorgensen: > Hi > > On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 12:32:45PM +0100, Raffaele Morelli wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have a debian wheezy server up, I would like to free some space on > > rootfs but can't guess how... >

Re: rootfs

2013-04-19 Thread Kevin Chadwick
> > Hi, > > > > I have a debian wheezy server up, I would like to free some space > > on rootfs but can't guess how... > > Here follows the filesystem, any hints? > > > > regrds > > /r > > > > debian:~# df -h > >

Re: rootfs

2013-04-19 Thread Bob Proulx
Raffaele Morelli wrote: > Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > > You seem to be using lvm. Can't you shrink another partition to grow root? > > Yes I could... but I have never managed lvm and this is a production > server.. You are using LVM. You have plenty of space. You just need to move it around a

Re: rootfs

2013-04-19 Thread Roger Leigh
On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 01:32:45PM +0200, Raffaele Morelli wrote: > Hi, > > I have a debian wheezy server up, I would like to free some space on rootfs > but can't guess how... > Here follows the filesystem, any hints? > > regrds > /r > > debian:~# df -h &

Re: rootfs

2013-04-19 Thread Roger Leigh
On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 10:53:33AM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > > Raffaele Morelli wrote: > > > rootfs 322M 213M 93M 70% / > > > /dev/mapper/debian-root 322M 213M 93M 70% / > > > tmpfs 368

Re: rootfs

2013-04-19 Thread Bob Proulx
Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > Raffaele Morelli wrote: > > rootfs 322M 213M 93M 70% / > > /dev/mapper/debian-root 322M 213M 93M 70% / > > tmpfs 368M 11M339M 3% /tmp > > /dev/mapper/debian-tmp 368M 11M339M 3

Re: rootfs

2013-04-19 Thread Bob Proulx
basti wrote: > You can also use "ncdu". > Man Page says: > > ncdu (NCurses Disk Usage) is a curses-based version of the well-known > 'du', and provides a fast way to see what directories are using your > disk space. Cool! I hadn't seen that before. Checking it out now. I have been recommending

Re: rootfs

2013-04-19 Thread Kevin Chadwick
> I haven't actually looked at your layout but copy something like /opt > to /usr (where it should be anyway in my opinion) and bind mount it. Sorry move it! -- ___ 'Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write progra

Re: rootfs

2013-04-19 Thread Kevin Chadwick
> >> Ok, here follows the "relevant" ouput. > >> Apart from spf13 vim environment, that I can remove for root user, I guess > >> my only choice would be a pruned custom kernel... am I wrong? > >> > > > > You seem to be using lvm. Can't you shrink another partition to grow root? > > > Yes I co

Re: rootfs

2013-04-19 Thread Raffaele Morelli
2013/4/19 Karl E. Jorgensen > Hi > > On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 12:32:45PM +0100, Raffaele Morelli wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have a debian wheezy server up, I would like to free some space on > rootfs but > > can't guess how... > > Here follows t

Re: rootfs

2013-04-19 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
Hi On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 12:32:45PM +0100, Raffaele Morelli wrote: > Hi, > > I have a debian wheezy server up, I would like to free some space on rootfs > but > can't guess how... > Here follows the filesystem, any hints? > > regrds > /r > > debian:

Re: rootfs

2013-04-19 Thread Raffaele Morelli
2013/4/19 Eduardo M KALINOWSKI > On Sex, 19 Abr 2013, Raffaele Morelli wrote: > >> Ok, here follows the "relevant" ouput. >> Apart from spf13 vim environment, that I can remove for root user, I guess >> my only choice would be a pruned custom kernel... am I wrong? >> > > You seem to be using lvm.

Re: rootfs

2013-04-19 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Hello, Raffaele Morelli a écrit : > > I have a debian wheezy server up, I would like to free some space on rootfs > but can't guess how... > Here follows the filesystem, any hints? > > debian:~# df -h > File system Dim. Usati Dispon. Uso% Montato su >

Re: rootfs

2013-04-19 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On Sex, 19 Abr 2013, Raffaele Morelli wrote: Ok, here follows the "relevant" ouput. Apart from spf13 vim environment, that I can remove for root user, I guess my only choice would be a pruned custom kernel... am I wrong? You seem to be using lvm. Can't you shrink another partition to grow root?

Re: rootfs

2013-04-19 Thread Raffaele Morelli
2013/4/19 Darac Marjal > > That seems correct. Device nodes don't tend to take up any space. Now > try it again on the filesystem (like I showed you). > > Ok, here follows the "relevant" ouput. Apart from spf13 vim environment, that I can remove for root user, I guess my only choice would be a pr

Re: rootfs

2013-04-19 Thread Alex Mestiashvili
On 04/19/2013 01:32 PM, Raffaele Morelli wrote: > Hi, > > I have a debian wheezy server up, I would like to free some space on > rootfs but can't guess how... > Here follows the filesystem, any hints? > > regrds > /r > > debian:~# df -h > File system

Re: rootfs

2013-04-19 Thread basti
>> On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 01:32:45PM +0200, Raffaele Morelli wrote: >>>Hi, >>>I have a debian wheezy server up, I would like to free some space on >>>rootfs but can't guess how... >>>Here follows the filesystem, any hints? >> You ha

Re: rootfs

2013-04-19 Thread Darac Marjal
uld like to free some space > on > > � �rootfs but can't guess how... > > � �Here follows the filesystem, any hints? > > You have 213Mb in your root file system, that seems fairly small to me > (especially as you have 477Gb kicking around

Re: rootfs

2013-04-19 Thread Raffaele Morelli
2013/4/19 Darac Marjal > On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 01:32:45PM +0200, Raffaele Morelli wrote: > >Hi, > >I have a debian wheezy server up, I would like to free some space on > >rootfs but can't guess how... > >Here follows the filesystem, any hints?

Re: rootfs

2013-04-19 Thread Darac Marjal
On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 01:32:45PM +0200, Raffaele Morelli wrote: >Hi, >I have a debian wheezy server up, I would like to free some space on > rootfs but can't guess how... >Here follows the filesystem, any hints? You have 213Mb in your root file system, that seem

rootfs

2013-04-19 Thread Raffaele Morelli
Hi, I have a debian wheezy server up, I would like to free some space on rootfs but can't guess how... Here follows the filesystem, any hints? regrds /r debian:~# df -h File system Dim. Usati Dispon. Uso% Montato su rootfs 322M 213M 93M 70% /

Re: rootfs mounted twice

2012-06-09 Thread hvw59601
Sven Joachim wrote: On 2012-06-09 16:07 +0200, Roman V.Leon. wrote: Please give me a tip - is it normal that i see in 'df -h' output that my rootfs is mounted twice ?: Yes, that's normal. You did not see it in the past when /etc/mtab was a regular file, but now /etc/mtab

Re: rootfs mounted twice

2012-06-09 Thread Mika Suomalainen
On 09.06.2012 17:07, Roman V.Leon. wrote: > Hello gents. > Please give me a tip - is it normal that i see in 'df -h' output that my > rootfs is mounted twice ?: > > $ df -h > > rootfs 97G 34G 59G 37% / > > /dev/disk/by-uuid/a863f3c2-ddaf-4c2

Re: rootfs mounted twice

2012-06-09 Thread Roman V.Leon.
On 09.06.2012 18:49, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2012-06-09 16:07 +0200, Roman V.Leon. wrote: Please give me a tip - is it normal that i see in 'df -h' output that my rootfs is mounted twice ?: Yes, that's normal. You did not see it in the past when /etc/mtab was a regular fil

Re: rootfs mounted twice

2012-06-09 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2012-06-09 16:07 +0200, Roman V.Leon. wrote: > Please give me a tip - is it normal that i see in 'df -h' output that > my rootfs is mounted twice ?: Yes, that's normal. You did not see it in the past when /etc/mtab was a regular file, but now /etc/mtab is a symlink to /p

rootfs mounted twice

2012-06-09 Thread Roman V.Leon.
Hello gents. Please give me a tip - is it normal that i see in 'df -h' output that my rootfs is mounted twice ?: $ df -h .... rootfs 97G 34G 59G 37% / /dev/disk/by-uuid/a863f3c2-ddaf-4c23-9d56-51245edbe394 97G 34G 59G 37% / Thanks. -- Cheers, Roman V.Leo

Re: rootfs on SSD

2011-05-13 Thread Andrei Popescu
> noatime,discard,data=ordered,errors=remount-ro 0 1 > > rd@blackbox:~$ mount > rootfs on / type rootfs (rw) ^^ This doesn't make sense. Could you try removing the quotes from the UUID="" entry in fstab? > The result of the t

Re: rootfs on SSD

2011-05-11 Thread Thilo Six
Rainer Dorsch wrote the following on 11.05.2011 12:05 > Am Montag, 9. Mai 2011 schrieb Thilo Six: >> Andrei Popescu wrote the following on 09.05.2011 09:18 >> >>>> rd@blackbox:~$ mount|grep rootfs >>>> rootfs on / type rootfs (rw) >>>> rd@b

Re: rootfs on SSD

2011-05-11 Thread Rainer Dorsch
Am Montag, 9. Mai 2011 schrieb Thilo Six: > Andrei Popescu wrote the following on 09.05.2011 09:18 > > >> rd@blackbox:~$ mount|grep rootfs > >> rootfs on / type rootfs (rw) > >> rd@blackbox:~$ > > > > I don't have any 'rootfs' in the

Re: findfs does not find rootfs UUID [solved]

2011-05-09 Thread Rainer Dorsch
hich I think was not there before): > > > > findfs: Unable to resolve ... > > > > http://bokomoko.de/~rd/ext4-rootfs-uuid/IMG_6119.JPG > > > > for my root partition. The system boot without a problem though, and when > > booted findfs works out ok: >

Re: rootfs on SSD

2011-05-09 Thread Thilo Six
Andrei Popescu wrote the following on 09.05.2011 09:18 >> rd@blackbox:~$ mount|grep rootfs >> rootfs on / type rootfs (rw) >> rd@blackbox:~$ > > I don't have any 'rootfs' in the output of mount, instead I have this: > > /dev/sda6 on / type ext3 (

Re: rootfs on SSD

2011-05-09 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Du, 08 mai 11, 23:23:52, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > > rd@blackbox:~$ mount|grep rootfs > rootfs on / type rootfs (rw) > rd@blackbox:~$ I don't have any 'rootfs' in the output of mount, instead I have this: /dev/sda6 on / type ext3 (rw,noatime,errors=remount-ro,

Re: rootfs on SSD

2011-05-08 Thread Rainer Dorsch
(rw,noatime,discard,data=ordered) > > > > but not for root > > > > rootfs on / type rootfs (rw) > > > > Were the noatime, discard, and data options lost somewhere on the > > way? Can I verify that they work? > > Quoting Ted Ts'o from &

Re: findfs does not find rootfs UUID

2011-05-08 Thread Rainer Dorsch
resolve ... > > http://bokomoko.de/~rd/ext4-rootfs-uuid/IMG_6119.JPG > > for my root partition. The system boot without a problem though, and when > booted findfs works out ok: > > blackbox:~# findfs UUID="4a4eb948-2d2b-4188-96ae-76a3776ae69c" > /dev/sdb1 > blackbox:~#

Re: rootfs on SSD

2011-05-08 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello Rainer, On Sun, May 08, 2011 at 04:14:53PM +0200, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > [...] > When I now run the mount command, I get all options listed for /home > > /dev/sdc2 on /home type ext4 (rw,noatime,discard,data=ordered) > > but not for root > > rootfs on / type r

rootfs on SSD

2011-05-08 Thread Rainer Dorsch
-55fe-49e5-97b7-0f6e7f63661a" /homeext4 noatime,discard,data=ordered 0 2 When I now run the mount command, I get all options listed for /home /dev/sdc2 on /home type ext4 (rw,noatime,discard,data=ordered) but not for root rootfs on / ty

findfs does not find rootfs UUID

2011-05-07 Thread Rainer Dorsch
Hello, I moved my root partition to a new SSD and used ext4 as filesystem. Everything works well, except that I get an error message during boot (which I think was not there before): findfs: Unable to resolve ... http://bokomoko.de/~rd/ext4-rootfs-uuid/IMG_6119.JPG for my root partition. The

NFS rootfs initramfs NFSv4

2011-03-11 Thread Denny Schierz
hi, we want to use the security advantages from NFSv4 for our diskless clients. I Build the initrams under Squeeze but the client won't boot, if I tell Solaris10 to accept NFSv4 only :-/ I saw the bug #409271 (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=409271) for Lenny, but why doesn't sup

Re: grub and rootfs as LVM

2007-05-10 Thread Yuwen Dai
I don't know: it just works. As long as you have the lvm2 package installed and the initrd package was created after the lvm2 package was installed, it should just work. Hi Stefan, After I changed root device to /dev/mapper/volume-root, Linux boots successfully. And I didn't make anything

Re: grub and rootfs as LVM

2007-05-09 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 09:23:52AM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > >> Try use /dev/mapper/volume-root instead. > >> I'm not sure why, but I recently had a similar problem where using > >> /dev/Debian/root didn't work but /dev/mapper/Debian-root did (even though > >> once the boot is over, /dev/Debia

Re: grub and rootfs as LVM

2007-05-09 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> Try use /dev/mapper/volume-root instead. >> I'm not sure why, but I recently had a similar problem where using >> /dev/Debian/root didn't work but /dev/mapper/Debian-root did (even though >> once the boot is over, /dev/Debian/root can be used just fine, it looks >> like the alternate name is con

Re: grub and rootfs as LVM

2007-05-09 Thread Yuwen Dai
> I setup /boot as a seperate disk parition. The rest is for LVM. > /dev/volume/root is OK when I use a rescue CDRom. And I re-build the > initrd, adding all dm-* modules to the initrd. Any suggestion? Try use /dev/mapper/volume-root instead. I'm not sure why, but I recently had a similar pro

Re: grub and rootfs as LVM

2007-04-30 Thread Yuwen Dai
Try use /dev/mapper/volume-root instead. I'm not sure why, but I recently had a similar problem where using /dev/Debian/root didn't work but /dev/mapper/Debian-root did (even though once the boot is over, /dev/Debian/root can be used just fine, it looks like the alternate name is constructed lat

Re: grub and rootfs as LVM

2007-04-30 Thread Stefan Monnier
> I setup my rootfs as an LVM, the menu.lst of grub looks like this; > title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.18-4-386 > root(hd0,0) > kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-4-686 root=/dev/volume/root ro > initrd /my_init > savedefault > Error happens

grub and rootfs as LVM

2007-04-30 Thread Yuwen Dai
Dear all, I setup my rootfs as an LVM, the menu.lst of grub looks like this; title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.18-4-386 root(hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-4-686 root=/dev/volume/root ro initrd /my_init savedefault Error happens when the kernel tried to

Re: Problem: kernel 2.4.23 - rootfs mounted read-only

2004-01-03 Thread Lukas Ruf
> Lukas Ruf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-01-02 12:16]: > > Dear all, > > when returning back to work after the Xmas-break, my root-file > system was mounted read-only. However, I have no idea why this > happened -- and problems fixing it. Any help would be greatly > appreciated! > Thanks for all th

Re: Problem: kernel 2.4.23 - rootfs mounted read-only

2004-01-02 Thread Paul Morgan
On Fri, 02 Jan 2004 12:26:36 +0100, Jan Minar wrote: > On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 12:16:35PM +0100, Lukas Ruf wrote: >> Dec 30 07:35:52 [kernel] EXT3-fs error (device ide0(3,2)): ext3_get_inode_loc: >> unable to read inode block - inode=972554, block=1966176 >> Dec 30 07:35:52 [kernel] Remounting fi

Re: Problem: kernel 2.4.23 - rootfs mounted read-only

2004-01-02 Thread Arnt Karlsen
2 [kernel] EXT3-fs error (device > ide0(3,2)): ext3_get_inode_loc: unable to read inode block - > inode=972554, block=1966176 Dec 30 07:35:52 [kernel] Remounting > filesystem read-only Dec 30 07:35:52 [kernel] EXT3-fs error (device > ide0(3,2)) in start_transaction: Journal has aborted &g

Re: Problem: kernel 2.4.23 - rootfs mounted read-only

2004-01-02 Thread Jan Minar
On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 12:16:35PM +0100, Lukas Ruf wrote: > Dec 30 07:35:52 [kernel] EXT3-fs error (device ide0(3,2)): ext3_get_inode_loc: > unable to read inode block - inode=972554, block=1966176 > Dec 30 07:35:52 [kernel] Remounting filesystem read-only This is probably what it should do: rem

Problem: kernel 2.4.23 - rootfs mounted read-only

2004-01-02 Thread Lukas Ruf
start_transaction: Journal has aborted Trying to remount the rootfs rw yields # mount -o remount,rw / mount: block device /dev/hda2 is write-protected, mounting read-only # uname -a Linux komsys-pc-ruf 2.4.23 #1 Tue Dec 2 17:34:37 CET 2003 i686 GNU/Linux # uptime 12:10:54 up 30 days, 17:58, 8 users, load

Re: rpc.statd won't run when rootfs mounted readonly

2002-09-26 Thread nate
Heinrich Rebehn said: > Hi, > > I have a problem with rpc.statd. We run our linux machines as diskless > clients, they mount their root fs via nfs from a server. For security > reasons i would like to export the root fs readonly. However, rpc.statd > will not run. It exits without an error message

rpc.statd won't run when rootfs mounted readonly

2002-09-26 Thread Heinrich Rebehn
Hi, I have a problem with rpc.statd. We run our linux machines as diskless clients, they mount their root fs via nfs from a server. For security reasons i would like to export the root fs readonly. However, rpc.statd will not run. It exits without an error message, but reports Sep 26 15:33:48 rp

rpc.statd won't run when rootfs mounted readonly

2002-09-26 Thread Heinrich Rebehn
Hi, I have a problem with rpc.statd. We run our linux machines as diskless clients, they mount their root fs via nfs from a server. For security reasons i would like to export the root fs readonly. However, rpc.statd will not run. It exits without an error message, but reports Sep 26 15:33:48 rp

rpc.statd won't run when rootfs mounted readonly

2002-09-26 Thread Heinrich Rebehn
Hi, I have a problem with rpc.statd. We run our linux machines as diskless clients, they mount their root fs via nfs from a server. For security reasons i would like to export the root fs readonly. However, rpc.statd will not run. It exits without an error message, but reports Sep 26 15:33:48 rp

Problems with Debian-based minimal rootfs

1999-07-27 Thread Matt Porter
Hi, I am building a minimal rootfs that will loads as a large ramdisk when booting some nodes on a clustered system. I'm basically pulling pieces by hand from a working PowerPC potato system as each node is PowerPC-based. I only have the need to allow serial login and networking (rshd et

rootfs on /dev/sdf1

1997-09-03 Thread Jens Kerle
cause rootfs is on /dev/sdf (in real life my room is a big black hole, collection everything). When i switch off one or two hd's, and rootfs become /dev/sdd1, all is working fine. workaround: i have a old, working system on /dev/sda1. if i boot this, and write lilo from there on /dev/sdf ,