Re: [AFMUG] linux help

2017-07-25 Thread Joe Novak
"hold my beer and watch this" not that I have ever done that on a unix system, or anything. Sometimes you just have to not be afraid to rebuild after breaking it... On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 2:48 PM, Steve Jones wrote: > I had to use gparted on our production

Re: [AFMUG] linux help

2017-07-24 Thread Steve Jones
I had to use gparted on our production powercode system in a pinch the first time. Had no clue what to expect, but it turned out to be really easy to use. In retrospect I should have spun up a test machine first On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 2:42 PM, Dev wrote: > Gparted is

Re: [AFMUG] linux help

2017-07-24 Thread Dev
Gparted is nice, LVM is handy, but trying them for the first time on a production system could definitely make a person uneasy. It is wise to get someone who’s done this sort of thing before and knows the gotcha’s if you’re unfamiliar, cheap insurance really. If you can’t, you can study up and

Re: [AFMUG] linux help

2017-07-22 Thread Josh Reynolds
"Wow?" :) I actually just wrote a blog post about this... http://blog.engineered.online/index.php/2017/07/22/want-set-success-learn-linux/ On another note, I got featured on packetpushers.net yesterday and the blog has only been up for like 2 weeks. Woo! :D On Sat, Jul 22, 2017 at 8:36 PM,

Re: [AFMUG] linux help

2017-07-22 Thread David Milholen
The next question is how many times have you had to replace hardware because some app out grew the memory or the processor? On 7/22/2017 8:42 PM, Paul Stewart wrote: Another one here since kernel 0.98 I think going by memory ... :) Sent from my iPhone On Jul 22, 2017, at 9:36 PM, David

Re: [AFMUG] linux help

2017-07-22 Thread Paul Stewart
Another one here since kernel 0.98 I think going by memory ... :) Sent from my iPhone > On Jul 22, 2017, at 9:36 PM, David Milholen wrote: > > WOW! another LINUX user... > > Ive been running and working unix/linux since 94 > > I only handle a handfull of vms though. > >

Re: [AFMUG] linux help

2017-07-22 Thread David Milholen
WOW! another LINUX user... Ive been running and working unix/linux since 94 I only handle a handfull of vms though. I love my bullet proof core using all linux to do my bidding. Finally finished my upgrade for ntopng/dpi. Not as good as sand vine but does the job. On 7/22/2017 11:38 AM,

Re: [AFMUG] linux help

2017-07-22 Thread Josh Reynolds
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Re: [AFMUG] linux help

2017-07-22 Thread Mike Hammett
.com> To: af@afmug.com Sent: Saturday, July 22, 2017 4:24:55 PM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] linux help This is precisely why you should be using LVM. Resizing partitions is for the birds. On Jul 22, 2017, at 3:31 PM, Steve Jones < thatoneguyst...@gmail.com > wrote: gpartd is awes

Re: [AFMUG] linux help

2017-07-22 Thread Josh Baird
This is precisely why you should be using LVM. Resizing partitions is for the birds. > On Jul 22, 2017, at 3:31 PM, Steve Jones wrote: > > gpartd is awesome for this, ensuring the right partitions get the right size > >> On Sat, Jul 22, 2017 at 2:54 PM, Josh

Re: [AFMUG] linux help

2017-07-22 Thread CBB - Jay Fuller
This is handled y'all thanks Sent from my Verizon 4G LTE Smartphone - Reply message - From: "Steve Jones" <thatoneguyst...@gmail.com> To: "af@afmug.com" <af@afmug.com> Subject: [AFMUG] linux help Date: Sat, Jul 22, 2017 3:31 PM gpartd is awesome for thi

Re: [AFMUG] linux help

2017-07-22 Thread Steve Jones
gpartd is awesome for this, ensuring the right partitions get the right size On Sat, Jul 22, 2017 at 2:54 PM, Josh Reynolds wrote: > It's a VM... He can do it through console. > > On Jul 22, 2017 1:50 PM, "Jon Bruce" wrote: > >> It would be difficult to

Re: [AFMUG] linux help

2017-07-22 Thread Josh Reynolds
It's a VM... He can do it through console. On Jul 22, 2017 1:50 PM, "Jon Bruce" wrote: > It would be difficult to do remotely but not impossible. All you really > need to do is boot the server with a live CD (Ubuntu works well) and load > up gparted. From there just click on

Re: [AFMUG] linux help

2017-07-22 Thread Jon Bruce
It would be difficult to do remotely but not impossible. All you really need to do is boot the server with a live CD (Ubuntu works well) and load up gparted. From there just click on the drive and pull the slider into the free space. Once happy, just click apply. This may help:

Re: [AFMUG] linux help

2017-07-22 Thread Josh Reynolds
Jay if nobody responds in the next day or two let me know. I've been running Linux for various things since 1998 or so, and currently handle over 3000 Linux VMs + IaaS devices. On Jul 22, 2017 10:36 AM, "CBB - Jay Fuller" wrote: > > We run a server that is on a vm

[AFMUG] linux help

2017-07-22 Thread CBB - Jay Fuller
We run a server that is on a vm with several other vms. This particular vm was configured for 40 gigabytes HDD but we have outgrown that. We've already changed the vm size to 60 gig but I don't feel comfortable running the steps I found on google to resize the actual physical partition. Is