| 00:04.38 | mindjuj1 | dataw0lf |
| 00:05.38 | synic | parted is for resizing and moving |
| 00:05.50 | synic | is that what you want? |
| 00:06.42 | mindjuj1 | well, the drive used to be for an windows box, and I want it to be just for red hat, so i would think i need to remove the partions and create a new red hat partion |
| 00:07.06 | synic | I dunno the redhat gui, but cfdisk is probably what you want |
| 00:08.39 | mindjuj1 | yeah, i think that is the way i want to go, looking up cfdisk on google right now |
| 00:09.01 | mindjuj1 | just checking though, cfdisk will remove all current partitions and establish a single partition, right? |
| 00:09.14 | synic | well, it's a partition editor |
| 00:09.19 | synic | so you can delete the current and create new ones |
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| 01:12.15 | mindjuj1 | anybody around? |
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| 02:59.52 | mindjuj1 | anybody around? |
| 03:00.35 | wps | y |
| 03:00.58 | wps | ~seen * |
| 03:01.08 | jbot | i haven't seen '*', wps |
| 03:01.36 | mindjuj1 | way cool! i know i'm close to finishing installing a new hdd on red hat linux, just need a push in the right direction. do you use red hat are are you familiar with it? |
| 03:02.04 | wps | very, that's the only distro I've used |
| 03:02.17 | wps | hdd? |
| 03:02.34 | wps | you mean installing RH on a hdd? |
| 03:02.34 | mindjuj1 | whew! hdd - hard disk drive (hard drive) |
| 03:02.55 | wps | how do you install a hard drive on an operating system? |
| 03:03.00 | wps | :) |
| 03:03.18 | mindjuj1 | have RHEL already installed, just wanted to add a second drive to the system |
| 03:03.30 | mindjuj1 | where the second drive used to be a windows hdd |
| 03:04.01 | mindjuj1 | so, i fdisked the new hdd, did the mkfs.ext to create a new partition |
| 03:04.06 | wps | meaning that your box has another bay and you want to pop it in, put Microsoft Windows on it, and then have the bootloader allow you to select on boot? |
| 03:04.12 | mindjuj1 | added to fstab, but it won't let me mount the new drive |
| 03:04.50 | mindjuj1 | close, wiped the new hdd of all windows stuff, just want it to be a second drive for linux |
| 03:06.09 | mindjuj1 | so you know, when you want to add more hard drive space to your system, you throw in another drive, format it so now you have the original hard drive space, and now the new hard drive space, i'm stuck in what i think is the last parts of adding a new drive to RHEL |
| 03:06.27 | wps | hmm… I'm no help |
| 03:06.28 | wps | sorry |
| 03:06.46 | mindjuj1 | bummer |
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| 03:10.38 | wps | ~hail bigdog_ut |
| 03:10.39 | jbot | ACTION bows down to bigdog_ut and chants, "I'M NOT WORTHY!!" |
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| 03:53.23 | mindjuj1 | bigdog, you around? |
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| 05:01.23 | bigdog_ut | yes |
| 05:02.30 | bigdog_ut | mindjuj1, wake up |
| 05:02.49 | mindjuj1 | i'm here, but i'm getting ready to boot this box into the snow |
| 05:03.18 | mindjuj1 | can't tell what's worse, me following these directions at least 10x, honest, or expecting that for some reason things would change and it would all of a sudden work |
| 05:03.24 | mindjuj1 | http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-4-Manual/sysadmin-guide/ch-disk-storage.html#S2-DISK-STORAGE-PARTED-RESIZE-PART |
| 05:05.40 | bigdog_ut | you dont have to boot the box to install the hd |
| 05:07.06 | jsmith | mindjuj1: What are you trying to do? Resize a partition? |
| 05:07.35 | mindjuj1 | i've installed RHEL 4 onto a computer, and that part works fine, all i want to do is add an additional hdd to that computer |
| 05:08.13 | mindjuj1 | the new hdd was from a windows box, but that's ok, i don't want anything from that drive, i want it wiped and ready to use for RHEL |
| 05:08.19 | bigdog_ut | then after you have partitioned and formatted...create the mount point and hten mount |
| 05:08.39 | bigdog_ut | have you wiped and partitioned it? |
| 05:08.41 | jsmith | 1) Physically install the drive |
| 05:08.53 | jsmith | 2) Run fdisk to setup the partitions |
| 05:08.57 | mindjuj1 | drive installed and hardware browser see it as hdc |
| 05:09.01 | jsmith | 3) Run mkfs to create the new filesystem |
| 05:09.02 | mindjuj1 | have run fdisk |
| 05:09.12 | mindjuj1 | n for new partition |
| 05:09.20 | mindjuj1 | primary using the whole drive |
| 05:09.25 | jsmith | Sounds like all you need is mksf.ext3 (assuming ext3 here) /dev/hdc1 |
| 05:09.54 | mindjuj1 | now it's funny you mention mksf.ext3 cause i tried that and it said there is not enough space to create a new partition |
| 05:10.22 | mindjuj1 | but i have specified hdc1 as the partition to do the filesystem on |
| 05:10.32 | jsmith | Are you sure you ran it on /dev/hdc1 (notice the 1!) and not just /dev/hdc? |
| 05:12.36 | wps | is it possible to generate an email from a shell script? |
| 05:13.42 | jsmith | wps: Sure! |
| 05:13.42 | bigdog_ut | y |
| 05:14.11 | jsmith | cat message.txt | mail -s 'Insert Subject Here' wade@somewhere.tld |
| 05:14.13 | wps | I am writing a backup script and am considering options for it letting me know that it was successful |
| 05:14.36 | bigdog_ut | mail can be any commandline mail utility |
| 05:15.04 | wps | so would this work? |
| 05:15.41 | wps | cat "STATUS: backup successful" | mail -s "backup status" wade@somwhere.com |
| 05:15.42 | wps | ? |
| 05:15.58 | bigdog_ut | y |
| 05:16.04 | bigdog_ut | if mail is set up correctly |
| 05:16.34 | wps | how would I test it? |
| 05:16.41 | wps | just run that from the command line? |
| 05:16.41 | bigdog_ut | run the command |
| 05:16.45 | bigdog_ut | yep |
| 05:16.50 | bigdog_ut | if you get the email great |
| 05:17.09 | bigdog_ut | if not then you need to find out what mail is configured with |
| 05:17.15 | jsmith | You can also run it with the -v option while you're debugging, and it'll show you the conversation with the mail server |
| 05:17.44 | wps | it said that "...." wasn't a file… so it couldn't cat it |
| 05:17.57 | wps | what would the syntax be if I didn't want the message body in a separate file |
| 05:18.00 | bigdog_ut | use echo |
| 05:18.04 | wps | (because it's only going to be a few words) |
| 05:18.04 | wps | k |
| 05:18.26 | mindjuj1 | k, i'm not sure what happened, but it worked, but i could swear i've done that at least 20x. but in my defense, my basement flooded last night, my son got an inner ear infection and didn't sleep last night, the doc this morn said that he's starting to get pnemonia in his right lung, and early this morn, found out that my wife's grandmother died. it's been a b* of a day |
| 05:18.43 | mindjuj1 | thnx jsmith, i thought i was going mad |
| 05:18.55 | jsmith | mindjuj1: No problem... glad to help out |
| 05:19.05 | wps | awesome |
| 05:19.09 | wps | hmm… I am thinking though |
| 05:19.15 | wps | since it will usually be successful |
| 05:19.27 | wps | I will probably rather write out a log instead of getting an email each day |
| 05:19.48 | bigdog_ut | whatz wrong with email |
| 05:20.24 | wps | nothing |
| 05:20.43 | wps | interesting… rsync already has a log option built in but it doesn't appear to include the date |
| 05:20.47 | wps | that's lame |
| 05:21.08 | bigdog_ut | what are you using the script for? |
| 05:21.24 | wps | backing up files |
| 05:21.29 | wps | run each night to do two things: |
| 05:21.42 | wps | create a mirror and archive the differences |
| 05:21.59 | wps | rsync -avz --delete --progress $EXCLUDES --stats --extended-attributes --backup --backup-dir=/Volumes/silver/ARCHIVE_wade/ >> /Volumes/silver/dailybackup_wade.log /Volumes/wade/ /Volumes/silver/BACKUP_wade/ |
| 05:22.00 | bigdog_ut | why not setup a cron and have cron email you |
| 05:22.24 | wps | I am going to do a cron (actually Apple's version of cron, called launchd) |
| 05:22.42 | bigdog_ut | if that supports email i would use that |
| 05:22.53 | wps | I'll look |
| 05:26.18 | jsmith | Why not just run rdiff-backup? |
| 05:26.41 | bigdog_ut | if it is available for mac |
| 05:28.35 | wps | haven't heard of it |
| 05:28.36 | wps | I thought that rsync was the best |
| 05:30.21 | jsmith | Well, rdiff-backup uses the rsync protocol |
| 05:30.47 | jsmith | It keeps a rolling backup of your files, so that you can go back to any version, as far back as you want to keep |
| 05:31.05 | jsmith | It's a handy little tool :-) |
| 05:31.10 | wps | oo… looks like exactly what I wan |
| 05:31.10 | wps | want |
| 05:31.26 | wps | works on Mac OS X |
| 05:31.41 | wps | supports extended attributes and resource forks! |
| 05:31.45 | wps | woot! woot! |
| 05:31.48 | jsmith | Of course! |
| 05:33.38 | jsmith | And with that, I'm going to bed |
| 06:39.03 | mindjuj1 | you still around bigdog? |
| 06:39.22 | bigdog_ut | y |
| 06:40.36 | mindjuj1 | so, i just installed a program called scalix. by that i mean i double clicked the rpm file, it did it's thing, i configured some settings, it said all done, and now the computer has stopped and isn't doing anything. now you know in windows, when an app installs, it can be found under the start menu, under programs, is there a similar place in rhel? |
| 06:44.04 | bigdog_ut | there is the start menu if you have the gui |
| 06:44.10 | bigdog_ut | but it depends on the rpm |
| 06:44.22 | bigdog_ut | which window manager are you using? |
| 06:44.23 | bigdog_ut | gnome? |
| 06:45.17 | mindjuj1 | i think it is called natilus, it is the default desktop for RHEL |
| 06:45.39 | bigdog_ut | nautilus is like windows explorer |
| 06:45.47 | bigdog_ut | you are running gnome window manager |
| 06:46.08 | bigdog_ut | so on your start button you might see the app under one of the menus |
| 06:46.31 | bigdog_ut | if not then hte rpm does not install the gnome desktop info for gnome to add it to it menus |
| 06:46.38 | bigdog_ut | you can manually do that if you like |
| 06:46.44 | bigdog_ut | or create a shortcut |
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