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| pmatulis | dunno | 02:09 |
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| mariano_ | I'm trying to install ubuntu server what is the most recommended partitioning method to choose from the install options? Use entire disk and set up LVM? or just use entire disk? | 02:26 |
| patdk-lap | depends on the usage | 02:27 |
| mariano_ | I have a server that I want to put virtual machines on. One drive is 120GB SD for the server and the second drive is 500GB for the virtual machines. | 02:28 |
| mariano_ | I'm new to server things, and to linux in particular so I'm kind of flying blind. | 02:28 |
| kklimonda | tbh I default to LVM on all my servers nowadays. | 02:46 |
| kklimonda | mariano_: ^ lvm gives you some extra flexibility, in case you need it - but it's also an extra layer that you have to make sense of in case something ever goes wrong | 02:47 |
| * patdk-lap lothes lvm | 02:51 | |
| patdk-lap | and only uses it if I really really need it | 02:51 |
| patdk-lap | and that is like on 2 servers out of hundreds | 02:52 |
| mariano_ | ok | 02:56 |
| mariano_ | thank you. | 02:56 |
| mariano_ | I'm going to use libvirt to setup the virtual machines. Should I install the virtual machine host during the ubuntu server install, or just the basic ubuntu server. | 02:57 |
| sarnold | mariano_: I always just take the smallest possible install from whatever mechanism I'm using, apt-get intsall whatever I need once the thing is up and running | 03:14 |
| mariano_ | Ok, thank you. I'll give that a try. | 03:23 |
| mariano_ | I'm back to bother you guys with more questions lol. Towards the end of installing ubuntu server 14.04.02 LTS I get executing 'grub-install /dev/sde' failed. This is a fatal error. Any ideas how I can fix this? | 04:00 |
| sarnold | can you execute it by hand? | 04:01 |
| mariano_ | Let me check. | 04:01 |
| mariano_ | It takes me back to the ubuntu installer main menu. I think I can finish installing ubuntu server without grub. Can it be fixed after the installation? | 04:02 |
| mariano_ | I also have the option of installing LiLo boot loader? or continue without boot loader. | 04:03 |
| sarnold | LILO is still there???? | 04:04 |
| mariano_ | Yea | 04:04 |
| mariano_ | My three options are Grub, Lilo, or continue without a boot loader. The Grub one keeps failing. I've redownloaded the server image and recreated the usb installer a few times. | 04:06 |
| mariano_ | Same thing keeps happening. | 04:06 |
| wolflarson | is sde the correct drive? | 04:07 |
| mariano_ | Well, both drives that I have on there are clean. I can try to take out one drive. | 04:08 |
| wolflarson | I had issues with ubuntu not detecting the correct first drive when I had multiple mounted and just had to specify what drive i wanted grub on by hand | 04:08 |
| mariano_ | ok, let me see if I can do that by hand. | 04:09 |
| sarnold | this looks helpful, but eww http://askubuntu.com/questions/532540/ubuntu-installation-failure-unable-to-install-grub | 04:10 |
| mariano_ | ok, thank you. I'll give these things a try. | 04:11 |
| garethdaine | Hey folks | 06:08 |
| garethdaine | When completing a clean install of Ubuntu server is there a requirement to have a http web server on it like apache2 or nginx? Or can you simply install a clean copy of Ubuntu that will allow access via SSH? | 06:10 |
| sarnold | garethdaine: it's been a wihle since I've used an installer, but I'm pretty sure there's an easy way to get through with a minimal install that's really just an sshd when you're done | 06:10 |
| garethdaine | OK, that’s good to know. | 06:11 |
| garethdaine | I’ve asked our dedicated host to install a clean copy of Ubuntu 14.04 x64 without any software on it such as apache, mysql etc as I have provisioning tools that will do everything for me. | 06:11 |
| garethdaine | THey initially installed it with Apache2, PHP, MySQL | 06:12 |
| sarnold | d'oh | 06:12 |
| garethdaine | I asked them to do it again, and now they’ve installed nginx | 06:12 |
| garethdaine | So I’m getting a bit pissed off | 06:12 |
| garethdaine | haha | 06:12 |
| sarnold | I suspect most users do want one or the other, so I'm not surprised that they have those preconfigured options.. | 06:12 |
| sarnold | hopefully hey've got some way for you to do an install on your own? | 06:13 |
| garethdaine | Sure, in my case though I”ve specificially asked them on 2 occasions not to install anything | 06:13 |
| garethdaine | No, I don’t believe they have | 06:13 |
| garethdaine | I haven’t asked but I’m pretty sure they haven't | 06:13 |
| garethdaine | I will ask them that though now that you have mentioned it | 06:14 |
| sarnold | you can make it work, apt-get purge nginx etc., but still, annoying :) | 06:14 |
| garethdaine | Thanks for the advice | 06:14 |
| garethdaine | Sure sarnold, with me knowing they have installed nginx, it makes me wonder what else they have installed | 06:14 |
| sarnold | hehe | 06:14 |
| garethdaine | I want the live environment to match exactly my development environment | 06:14 |
| garethdaine | So my provisioning tools will do all that on a clean install | 06:15 |
| sarnold | that's definitely worth doing right | 06:15 |
| garethdaine | Thanks mate | 06:15 |
| garethdaine | Appreciate it | 06:15 |
| bcx_ | hi all, ubuntu novice here... was wondering if someone could talk me through server redundancy? i have 2 servers running ubuntu 14.04, not sure how to have 1 mirror the other... | 07:52 |
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| impi | Happy System Administrator Appreciation Day guys :) | 11:20 |
| impi | You guys are awesome! Please never forget that we appreciate every inc of effort, every stressful night, everything you do for us :) | 11:21 |
| impi | Peace | 11:21 |
| jamespage | zul, trove is the final bit of the sqlalchemy puzzle left | 11:51 |
| jamespage | ... | 11:52 |
| zul | jamespage: ack on it | 11:54 |
| jamespage | zul, ta - about to go for my flight home | 11:54 |
| jamespage | nice to get this unblocked today if possible | 11:54 |
| jamespage | leave things clear for l2 next week | 11:54 |
| zul | jamespage: okies have a safe flight | 11:54 |
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| zul | jamespage: trove uploaded | 13:47 |
| jamespage | zul, and proposed unlocked! | 13:49 |
| jamespage | zul, what was the fix? | 13:49 |
| zul | jamespage, http://paste.ubuntu.com/11973425/ | 13:51 |
| jamespage | zul, 404? | 13:52 |
| zul | jamespage: erm https://git.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-server-dev/ubuntu/+source/openstack-trove/tree/debian/patches/fix-columun-uniqueness.patch | 13:53 |
| zul | jamespage, we can drop it in l2 | 13:54 |
| jamespage | zul, ack | 13:54 |
| jamespage | well that will be next week :-) | 13:54 |
| zul | yeah coreycb will love that ;) | 13:54 |
| jamespage | hehe | 13:54 |
| jamespage | we also need to push out a stable snapshot for kilo as well | 13:54 |
| jamespage | catchup on fixes.... | 13:55 |
| jamespage | zul, zigo has done quite a few updates for b2 deps into experimental so we should just need a sync catchup there | 13:57 |
| jamespage | zul, coreycb: pymysql is also going to be key - we have main projects switching for b2 | 13:57 |
| jamespage | cheerio python-mysqldb | 13:57 |
| zul | jamespage: ack | 13:57 |
| zul | jamespage, im sprinting in montreal next week as well btw | 13:58 |
| jamespage | zul, yeah - i remember - chatted with stgraber this week about next | 13:59 |
| zul | jamespage, oh oh :) | 13:59 |
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| gQuigs | I'm trying to increase the max open files limit (soft and hard) for samba processes on 12.04.. without changing anything other processes on system | 14:54 |
| gQuigs | I can get hard to change using /etc/init/smbd.override or changing max open files in smb.conf, but I can't get soft to change... | 14:55 |
| gQuigs | (and unlike what I remember there is no samba username for limits.conf) | 14:57 |
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| gQuigs | hmm.. looks like it's specific to http://upstart.ubuntu.com/wiki/Stanzas#limit and smbd | 15:25 |
| gQuigs | with other daemons the upstart soft limit get's applied correctly - tested with nmbd actually | 15:28 |
| === markthomas|away is now known as markthomas | ||
| gQuigs | seems changing smb.conf (max open files) was the answer | 16:46 |
| jrgifford | One off-topic message: I wish you all a happy sysadmin day. http://sysadminday.com/ | 17:41 |
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| === markthomas|away is now known as markthomas | ||
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| mariano_ | I'm trying to format a hard drive to use as part of a kvm pool storage. Once I do fdisk -l command, I get Device Boot /dev/sda1, start 2048, end 976773167, blocks 488385560, id 83, and system linux. Does this mean that I successfully formated my entire drive to have one partition taking up the entire disk and with extension ext3? | 20:51 |
| bekks | mariano_: No. It means you created a partition, primary, partition type 83. It doesnt say anything about the filesystem used. | 20:53 |
| mariano_ | How can I change it to a usable partition? Like ext3, ntfs, ect? | 20:55 |
| patdk-lap | it is a usable partition | 20:57 |
| patdk-lap | it's not a usable filesystem | 20:57 |
| patdk-lap | assuming you want to install a filesystem on it | 20:57 |
| mariano_ | Yes, I think I need to install a file system on it. | 20:58 |
| patdk-lap | well use mkfs for whatever filesystem you want to use | 20:59 |
| patdk-lap | with whatever optiosn you want to use on that filesystem | 20:59 |
| mariano_ | Ok, I'll go read on that. Thanks. | 20:59 |
| mariano_ | After I install a file system to a partition, do I need to mount it or need a mount point? Does the server mount it automatically? | 21:10 |
| sarnold | you need to mount it | 21:10 |
| mariano_ | ok, thanks. I'll go read on that. | 21:11 |
| mariano_ | :) | 21:11 |
| lordievader | The server would mount it automatically if you define it in /etc/fstab | 21:11 |
| mariano_ | Do I have to do that in order for it to work everytime I restart the server? | 21:13 |
| lordievader | Unless you want to mount it manually everytime, yes. | 21:14 |
| sarnold | mariano_: yeah | 21:14 |
| mariano_ | Ok, thank you guys. | 21:14 |
| mariano_ | Is there a way to download iso files to ubuntu server and save them to a specific directory, say /guest_images_fs | 21:53 |
| sarnold | mariano_: mkdir whatever ; cd !$ ; wget http://whatever | 21:53 |
| tonyyarusso | mariano_: uh, wget? Of course. | 21:54 |
| mariano_ | Ok, I'll read on that sarnold. Thank you so much again for your help. | 21:54 |
| mariano_ | voila... Got my headless ubuntu server running virtual machines. Thanks for all the help sarnold and the rest of you amigos. :) | 22:56 |
| sarnold | mariano_: great :) | 22:56 |
| mariano_ | Now onto install databases and play with R. :) | 22:56 |
| sarnold | \o/ | 22:57 |
| sarnold | "play with R" has been on my todo list for about fifteen years now... | 22:57 |
| mariano_ | hehe. I got tired of SAS and Stata. Besides, now that I'm out of school... I can't afford the $$$ for other programs that have the same features as R. | 22:58 |
| sarnold | oof. yeah. spendy stuff.. | 22:59 |
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