| g0tcha | heh i just tested a backup method, supposed to backup a system with 30gb drive, the backup ended up to be 60+ gb! | 00:40 |
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| g0tcha | something must have went wrong | 00:40 |
| ddsss | mmm. so I've converted mbr to gpt on /dev/sda using gdisk, rebooted and now my home server box doesn't start. :) Can I get some help guys? | 00:41 |
| ddsss | Here's the fdisk, df-h, and fstab output prior to conversion: http://paste.ubuntu.com/6776851/ | 00:43 |
| TJ- | ddsss: Did you create a GRUB BIOS-boot partition on the GPT? | 00:44 |
| ddsss | Ubuntu was installed on /dev/sdd (60 GB ssd drive) | 00:44 |
| ddsss | TJ-, I did sudo gdisk /dev/sda | 00:45 |
| ddsss | TJ-, then pressed w and it was supposed to save converted gpt table. | 00:45 |
| ddsss | TJ-, and gdisk reported that conversion was successfull. | 00:45 |
| ddsss | TJ-, so I ahve no clue why would it just not boot after .... | 00:46 |
| TJ- | ddsss: As I said ... GRUB will need a BIOS boot partition of around 1MB and you'll need to redo "grub-install" ... not sure if you need additional grub packages on top of grub-pc, though | 00:47 |
| ddsss | TJ-, but OS was installed on totally differnt drive. | 00:47 |
| ddsss | TJ-, I've just converted one of the 4 data driver in my nas server. | 00:48 |
| ddsss | TJ-, server drive wasn't touched at all. | 00:48 |
| ddsss | TJ-, I mean - OS drive wasn't touched at all.... | 00:48 |
| TJ- | ddsss: really? you said MBR so I assumed you meant a boot record, not just partition table typ | 00:48 |
| ddsss | TJ-, yeah. here see the drives in my system: http://paste.ubuntu.com/6776851/ | 00:49 |
| TJ- | ddfs: define "doesn't start" then | 00:49 |
| ddsss | TJ-, it just shows: _ | 00:50 |
| g0tcha | "The dump format is only recommended if you need to backup files that have ACLs or other attributes that tar would miss. " | 00:50 |
| g0tcha | what does ACL stand for here? | 00:50 |
| ddsss | TJ-, not a command prompt though. Just underscore charachter -> and it just sits there.... | 00:50 |
| ddsss | TJ-, You know wjhat - looking at my fdisk output. There is 4 drives: sda, sdb,sdc,sdd. OS drive was sdd. But for some reason sda drive that I later converted to GPT was also makred "boot"... | 00:52 |
| ddsss | TJ-, so perhaps during conversion it made it "gpt boot" or something? | 00:52 |
| TJ- | ddsss: that sounds about right... if it is GPT, and your motherboard is UEFI, it'll boot by default (or try) to a GPT disk... if it can't find an EFI system partition it'll stop | 00:53 |
| TJ- | ddsss: you may need to edit the UEFI boot menu order to force CSM boot of the correct drive | 00:54 |
| ddsss | ddsss, so I guess ill mount it in ubuntu-resue cd or something and uncheck the boot label. | 00:54 |
| TJ- | ddsss: I doubt that is needed... GPT doesn't have the concept of an 'active' partition, unlike MBR | 00:55 |
| ddsss | TJ-, how would I edit uefi boot menu> | 00:56 |
| ddsss | TJ-, ? | 00:56 |
| TJ- | ddsss: reboot, enter the UEFI setup (usually press F2 or similar), then change the boot menu order and save | 00:56 |
| ddsss | TJ-, k. let me try that. | 00:57 |
| ddsss | TJ-, hmm. so. this is regular BIOS, not UEFI. But I think the problem is that /dev/sda did in fact contain MBR record, while OS was phisically installed onto /dev/sdd.... | 01:34 |
| ddsss | TJ-, so when I converted MBR->GPT this made it unbootable... | 01:34 |
| ddsss | TJ-, im not sure how that happened initially as I went with default Ubuntu server setup options... | 01:35 |
| ddsss | TJ-, but there is probably no way to move old mbr onto /dev/sdd? | 01:36 |
| TJ- | ddsss: if /dev/sdd is MBR you can just do "grub-install /dev/sdd" then "update-grub" ... and ensure the BIOS boot order chooses sdd first | 01:40 |
| ddsss | TJ-, yeah - but it seems like that drive never had mbr, it was on /dev/sda for some reason. | 01:41 |
| ddsss | TJ-, but that's ok. i'll just boot from puppy linux or something , backup whatever configs I need and reinstall OS - that's why it was on a separate drive anyways....:) | 01:42 |
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| TJ- | ddsss: MBR means 2 things, 1) a BIOS partition table in sector 0 with 4 elements, and 2) boot-loader boot-strap code at the beginning of sector 0 | 01:45 |
| TJ- | "grub-install /dev/sdd" will install the boot-sector code into sector 0. That is what the BIOS looks for and loads and passes execution to. | 01:45 |
| TJ- | ddsss: that code know how to find the rest of GRUB | 01:45 |
| TJ- | ddsss: so which would you rather do... reinstall several GBs of files, or have "grub-install" write ~ 440 bytes to sector 0 of the correct disk? | 01:46 |
| ddsss | TJ-, I dunno:) it was pretty basic ubuntu server install + apache server. not much more. (just a home server) | 01:50 |
| ddsss | TJ-, how would one do grub-install? do I run it from recovery cd? | 01:51 |
| TJ- | ddsss: Yes | 01:51 |
| ddsss | TJ-, Ill give it a try then. Thanks TJ- ! | 01:52 |
| TJ- | do you have the bootable server install media? I believe there is/was a recovery option on that. | 01:52 |
| TJ- | ddsss: if not, there is a grub rescue ISO image you can use on USB or CD/DVD, or a live ISO desktop image | 01:52 |
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| a1fa | hello.. anyone running btrfs? | 02:55 |
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| brightbeat | logrotate on Ubuntu 12.04 server is acting very weird. it archived mail.log to mail.info.0 !! and it does some other weird thing. Does anyone have a problem like that? | 08:29 |
| |newbie| | lista | 12:52 |
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| phillw | Hi good people, as a for your information.. The partitioner in trusty server install does not function on a KVM... I don't have a actual bit of kit to double check the debian-installer against. The nearest report I saw was able to see was 'no disk space left), which on a newly created 100GB LVM is somewhat unlikely. | 17:37 |
| phillw | I double checked by popping 12.04.3 LTS back onto same VM... worked fine. | 17:40 |
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| Guest17692 | Hello, can you tell me where I can find a list of the patches that Ubuntu applies to the Linux Kernel ? | 18:40 |
| TJ- | Guest17692: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/SourceCode | 18:45 |
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| lifeless | hi; how can I see what packages are in the cloud-archive? It doesn't look like a regular ppa... | 20:55 |
| zul | lifeless: http://reqorts.qa.ubuntu.com/reports/ubuntu-server/cloud-archive/ | 21:13 |
| lifeless | zul: oh hi :) | 21:14 |
| lifeless | zul: I have a weeeird openvswitch issue I'm trying to track down :( | 21:14 |
| zul | lifeless: ah | 21:14 |
| zul | is this the one you g+ed about? | 21:14 |
| lifeless | http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-operators/2014-January/003893.html | 21:14 |
| lifeless | zul: no that was me reading the changelog and going WTF | 21:14 |
| lifeless | that list post is it | 21:15 |
| zul | lifeless: ah well i would bug jamespage about it tomorrow | 21:15 |
| lifeless | jamespage: ^ oh hai :) | 21:16 |
| lifeless | zul: cool, will keep poking at it myself; kindof need to get a fix in place :) | 21:16 |
| lifeless | huh | 21:22 |
| lifeless | tunnelling is in upstream kernel now | 21:22 |
| lifeless | so I might try just the ovs 2 userspace | 21:22 |
| embiopterid | If I use squid-deb-proxy and have both debian and ubuntu machines, will it still work, or will they try to install the wrong packages? | 21:24 |
| lifeless | it will still work | 21:25 |
| embiopterid | thx. | 21:28 |
| ddsss | so - if I have a drive that I intend to use purely as a data storage -> do I need to create partitions there at all? | 21:35 |
| embiopterid | ddsss: yes. A drive always needs a partition table. You only need one tho. | 21:39 |
| ddsss | embiopterid, hmm. im not sure. | 21:40 |
| ddsss | embiopterid, this queestion for example suggests that partition tables are optional: http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/5162/how-to-install-grub-to-a-whole-ext4-disk-without-partition-table | 21:41 |
| embiopterid | OK, ya you can but its not usually a good idea, and making a partition is not difficlult at all so I would just go ahead and do it. | 21:57 |
| embiopterid | but thats just me. | 21:57 |
| nickenchuggets | Does anyone know of any guides for setting up Virtual Mailboxes with Postfix on Ubuntu 13.04? | 22:52 |
| nickenchuggets | I found one, but it said... at the very end of the section... that the above needs to be updated for Ubuntu versions above 12.04. | 22:54 |
| dcosnet | nickenchuggets: i just wanted to point out that your irc name is funny | 23:19 |
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| zanzacar | What are some fun things to do on your headless server? I am currently torrenting a bunch of linux distros for everyone. | 23:34 |
| zanzacar | I was just wondering what else really I could do with my server while its not really being used basically. | 23:34 |
| Pici | irc | 23:34 |
| Pici | irssi | 23:34 |
| zanzacar | I got weechat-curses I seem to like it alot | 23:35 |
| zanzacar | I have never really looked into irssi. | 23:35 |
| zanzacar | Pici: What do you like about irssi? vs weechat? | 23:45 |
| Pici | zanzacar: I'm used to it. weechat is cool too. | 23:45 |
| zanzacar | Pici: O ok sounds good. I am use to weechat. I thought I had gone through and tried both at one time and decided on weechat over irssi. | 23:46 |
| zanzacar | I think I have tried to do things like lend out my cpu power for good causes but always ran into issues. | 23:47 |
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