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Advice on setting up Raid and LVM
by Fajar Priyanto 02 Mar '06

02 Mar '06

Hi all, I'm setting up Raid 1 and LVM on 2x80GB SATA drives. The partition scheme is like this: /boot = 300MB / = 9.2GB /home = 70GB swap = 500MB The RAID is RAID 1. md0 = 300MB = /boot md1 = 9.2GB = LVM md2 = 70GB = LVM md3 = 500MB = LVM Now, the confusing part is: 1. When creating VolGroup00, should I include all PV (md1, md2, md3)? Then create the LV. 2. When setting up RAID 1, should I make those separated partitions for /, /home, and swap? Or, should I just make one big RAID device? The future purpose of using LVM is I want to be able to expand any partitions that would run out of space into a new disk. Thank you very much. -- Fajar Priyanto | Reg'd Linux User #327841 | Linux tutorial http://linux2.arinet.org 18:35:53 up 4:55, 2.6.15-1.1830_FC4 GNU/Linux Let's use OpenOffice. http://www.openoffice.org

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Re: motherboard
by Andrea Bencini 02 Mar '06

02 Mar '06

> Why shouldn't it be? The board supports a x86 processor. Provide at > least 256 MB memory, CD/DVD-ROM, graphics card, and a hard drive with > 10-20GB of free space and you should be set. Thank to all Andrea

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Re: QTEK9100
by omnibsc＠edpnet.be 02 Mar '06

02 Mar '06

----- Original Message Follows ----- From: omnisoft1.m1(a)edpnet.org To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list(a)redhat.com> Subject: QTEK9100 Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2006 10:36:33 +0100 > Hi all, > > Have somebody experience how to synchronize a > qtek9100(pda) with fedora and evolution. > > Regards

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lvm2 & moving hd & fc4
by Monkey Pet 01 Mar '06

01 Mar '06

I have fc4 and moved my hd from one ide chain to another. However, when I did so, the lvm2 volumes weren't being mapped properly. After a second reboot, things mapped fine. Anyone know how I can force lvm2 to rescan (without rebooting) in this situation? Thanks.

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Re: Newbie Questions
by Andy Goss 01 Mar '06

01 Mar '06

> Message: 2 > Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 17:46:26 -0600 > From: "Timothy Brooks" <cera_linux(a)cox.net> > Subject: Newbie Questions > To: <fedora-list(a)redhat.com> > Message-ID: <NGBBKBAHELGKFNHDIOGNEEKKCIAA.cera_linux(a)cox.net> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Hello, > > I am about as new as they come. I have downloaded Fedora and am about to > install. I have a Windows 98 machine and am not sure if I want to set up a > dual boot or just put Fedora on this computer. It is an older machine > (500MHz, 128 RAM) but I would like to see what Linux/Fedora is like. What > would you recommend? > > I need some instructions on installation of Fedora from a hard drive. The > instruction with Fedora are too limited for me. Can someone please direct > me to a more detailed source. > > Do I need to burn the .iso files to CDs? I understand you cannot just copy > these files, that they need to be copied as .iso images, correct? What does > what I just said mean? Copy as an "image". Is there a setting in my CD > burning program that I need to use? > > I think these questions help the group understand my level, which is very > Newbie. > > Does Fedora have programs with it? Does it include a browser or program to > check email? Word processing? Or will I need to find Linux software for > this computer? > > Sorry for the simplicity of my questions but as they say, you need to start > somewhere. > > Thank you for any direction. > > Tim Brooks > Before you do anything drastic, take a look at: http://stanton-finley.net/fedora_core_4_installation_notes.html http://www.fedorafaq.org/ http://www.fedoraforum.org/ http://fedora.redhat.com/ http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/ - there is a Newbie forum and a Fedora forum If you are going to partition your existing drive, http://www.sysresccd.org/Index.en.php is invaluable. Note that you should do a defrag first. Andy Goss

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Where is my glib-2.0.pc
by Jiantao Shi 01 Mar '06

01 Mar '06

Hi everyone, I am using FC3 and try to install R package,but i got errors like this: [root@sibs download]# R CMD INSTALL Ruuid_1.8.0.tar.gz > * Installing *source* package 'Ruuid' ... > checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config > checking for glib-config... no > checking for glib-2.0... Package glib-2.0 was not found in the pkg-config > search path. > Perhaps you should add the directory containing `glib-2.0.pc' > to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable > No package 'glib-2.0' found > configure: error: No glib package information found > ERROR: configuration failed for package 'Ruuid' > ** Removing '/usr/lib/R/library/Ruuid' > Then i use > [root@sibs download]# whereis pkgconfig > pkgconfig: /usr/lib/pkgconfig /usr/share/pkgconfig to find glib-2.0.pc but failed.So where is glib-2.0.pc file? Thanks in advance Jiantao Shi

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create user home dir
by korgull 01 Mar '06

01 Mar '06

Hi, I've created a user on my system without creating a home dir for this user a while ago. Now I'd to add the home dir for thi suser and thought usermod could do that for me. I issue : usermod -d /home/user1 -m user1 But, nothing happens. How can I create the home dir ? Regards, Marcel

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RE: Signals
by Ralph.Grothe＠itdz-berlin.de 01 Mar '06

01 Mar '06

http://www.kernel.org/software/mon/ however, if your monitoring adventures are more involved I would consider Nagios http://www.nagios.org/ > -----Original Message----- > From: fedora-list-bounces(a)redhat.com > [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@redhat.com]On Behalf Of bill perkins > Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2006 4:40 AM > To: For users of Fedora Core releases > Subject: Re: Signals > > > John Summerfield wrote: > > Kaushal Shriyan wrote: > > > >> Hi ALL > >> > >> How do I capture SIGNALS on Linux Box using a script means > to say that > >> > >> > > "signal" is a technical term un Unix with a meaning different from > > what I think you mean. > > > >> my Linux box is up or down or rebooted or crashed so that > it will send > >> a mail to me saying that the machine is down or rebooted > >> > >> > > You can use a package called "mon" to monitor services > (including on > > other systems) to see what's running and to detect problems. > > > > To detect when a system's rebooted, just add a script to > /etc/init.d > > (use others as a guide) to send you email when it's run. > Don't forget > > to enable it using chkconfig. > > > > > > > Where would I find the mon package? It doesn't seem to be part of the > normal FC4 set. > > -- > -------------------------------------------------------------- > ----------------- > "The two most common things in the | Bill Perkins > universe are Hydrogen and Stupidity." | perk(a)iag.net > | programmer-at-large > F. Zappa | ALL assembly > languages done here. > -------------------------------------------------------------- > ----------------- > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list(a)redhat.com > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >

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Re: ATI Questions...again
by Nathaniel Stickney 01 Mar '06

01 Mar '06

>(Sam Petersen) >The xorg.conf looks fine. Do a "/sbin/lsmod | grep fglrx" in a >terminal. If nothing comes up, you need to load the kernel module. >"/sbin/modprobe fglrx" for that. Then restart X. $ /sbin/lsmod | grep fglrx fglrx 450924 7 It looks like the fglrx module is loaded, but no DRI. -- "...the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed." --Amendment II

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How to handle passing filenames with spaces and wildcards into bash scripts?
by Michael Wiktowy 01 Mar '06

01 Mar '06

Greetings all, I have done a fair amount of experimentation and Googling trying to find an answer to this and was wondering if some of the bash-scripting gurus out there could give me a hand. I am trying to make a script that will accept a wildcard to match a bunch of files and iterate over those absolute filenames; running the command once per filename. It is fairly straight-forward to do so when the filesnames don't have spaces but I haven't been able to find the magic combination that doesn't treat every space as a list separator. The closest I have gotten is to use the following script: #!/bin/bash find $* -print0 | xargs -0 -I % command_to_iterate_over % If I type: script "./path/to/filename*" it seems to iterate over the list properly whether there are spaces in there or not. If I type: script "./path/to/filename\ with\ spaces*" or script "./path/to/filename with spaces*" find chops up the filename at each space and tries to find each part which fails. If I put quotes around the $* find says that it cannot find ./path/to/filename\ with\ spaces* If I replace "find $*" with "find . -name $*" that doesn't help since it will start in the current directory (I want paths to be absolute) and won't match since the path is not stripped out of $* and $* could have multiple arguments. I have failed in similar ways using both while and for loops too. What am I missing here ... is there a better command than find to expand my wildcard and pass them to xargs? You seem to need the null separator between the filenames. Am I going to have to do some manual regex string parsing (after learning how to do so) to preprocess the command line arguments? I could probably do some crazy stuff with find, sed and grep ... I am just checking if there is something obvious/standard that I am missing. Does anyone have some bash magic for me that expands the wildcard and bundles each filename in quotes to pass on to a command one at a time in a simple manner? Thanks in advance for any hints/help/pointers/tricks that you can provide. /Mike

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