Re: Re: Please help me resize my ext4 file system to size > 16TB

2017-06-12 Thread Ramasubramanian Ramesh
> Hi, > > I have kernel 3.13 and e2fsprog 1.42.9 (as part of mybuntu 14.04.5 LTS). > With this, is it possible to resize2fs my ext4 RAID6 /dev/md0 to 24TB (ie > >16TB)? If so, please help me get there. If not, please recommend the > upgrades needed to the setup before this can be done. So, far,

Re: Re: Re: Re: Please help me to evaluate flash/ssd life using vmstat -d

2011-02-06 Thread Ramasubramanian Ramesh
On Sat, 2011-02-05 at 19:10 -0600, R. Ramesh wrote: [...] So what does vmstat -d tell me? Is the number of IO under total column supposed to be the number of IOs issued to the controller with each IO being contiguous N sectors? man vmstat says 'total' is Total writes completed

Re: Re: How to get rid of this firewall error. [Solved]

2010-07-30 Thread Ramasubramanian Ramesh
Thanks for every ones help. I resolved all issues with errors from my firewall. Here is a summary 1) My DSL modem/router periodically pings my machine. If I accept then it queries more about www server, samba server etc. I do not like these requests as I do not know what the modem does with

How to get rid of this firewall error.

2010-07-29 Thread Ramasubramanian Ramesh
Hi: My syslog and console window is repeatedly printing the follwing message from my firewall setup. I cannot figure out which program or service is printing this message. My first preference is to modify the source behavior. The second choice is to stop printing the message. I guess I could

Re: How to get rid of this firewall error.

2010-07-29 Thread Ramasubramanian Ramesh
connected to the DSL modem/router (which I think must be 192.168.1.1) Ramesh Ramasubramanian Ramesh wrote: Hi: My syslog and console window is repeatedly printing the follwing message from my firewall setup. I cannot figure out which program or service is printing this message. My first

Re: Re: How to get rid of this firewall error.

2010-07-29 Thread Ramasubramanian Ramesh
top posting - iihh ugly ;-p well, it's the netfilter code from the kernel instructed by an iptables rule, that spits out that message. most likely this is a message informing you about a blocked packet. the question is: who/what set this iptables rule to tell the kernel to discard such

Need advice on reinstalling because of iceape printing trouble.

2009-06-17 Thread Ramasubramanian Ramesh
Hi, I run lenny. I upgraded a month or so ago and switched from chroot based iceweasel to 64bit iceape+icedove. Since then my printing became sporadic from inside iceape. It would go thought motions but would not print anything. Attempting to print to ps file produces just basic header of

Re: Strange printing problem in iceweasel -pelase help.

2009-05-14 Thread Ramasubramanian Ramesh
Thank you. But my trouble has nothing to do with printer as I cannot print to a file either. It seems to be a iceweasel problem in printing selected pages. Ramesh Andrew Malcolmson wrote: On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 6:46 PM, Ramasubramanian Ramesh rram...@ti.com wrote: Can you please tell me

Re: Strange printing problem in iceweasel -pelase help.

2009-05-08 Thread Ramasubramanian Ramesh
Can you please tell me why this might be happening and what experiments I can do to further investigate? I tried googling and got nowhere. Ramesh Ramasubramanian Ramesh wrote: I run lenny amd64 and standard iceweasel package. I am having difficulty in printing *some* secure (https) pages. I

Strange printing problem in iceweasel

2009-05-05 Thread Ramasubramanian Ramesh
I run lenny amd64 and standard iceweasel package. I am having difficulty in printing *some* secure (https) pages. I am not sure what causes it, but I think it does not print if there is only one page to print. Th result is the same regardless of whether I print to the printer directly or to a

Re: Re: lenny nvidia-glx question.

2008-12-02 Thread Ramasubramanian Ramesh
On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 11:58:47 -0600, Ramasubramanian Ramesh wrote: Hi, I installed nvidia-glx yesterday (11/30/2008) on my lenny box and I have a doubt if it is working. I look at /var/log/Xorg.0.log and I find that it had text infroming nvidia is loaded and 3D acceleration is used

lenny nvidia-glx question.

2008-12-01 Thread Ramasubramanian Ramesh
Hi, I installed nvidia-glx yesterday (11/30/2008) on my lenny box and I have a doubt if it is working. I look at /var/log/Xorg.0.log and I find that it had text infroming nvidia is loaded and 3D acceleration is used. However, when I start X, I do not get nvdia splash screen. So, I am

Re: KVM - multiple guest networking problem with birdge+tap setup - solved.

2008-11-24 Thread Ramasubramanian Ramesh
Kernel, by default, filters bridge traffic based on /proc/net/bridge/xxx files. You need to set the contents of one or more files to 0. I only had to set the contents of /proc/sys/net/bridge/bridge-nf-call-iptables file to 0 (echo 0 /proc/sys/net/bridge/bridge-nf-call-iptables) and everything

KVM - multiple guest networking problem with birdge+tap setup.

2008-11-23 Thread Ramasubramanian Ramesh
Hi, I am trying to setup two guest windows XP on host linux amd64. Every thing except inter-kvm network works. I have started the two kvm machines with different macaddr to ensure there is no hwaddr conflict. However, kvm assigns tap1 a hw address that is same as br0's hw address. Here is

Backup before and restore after a broken dist-upgrade - what is the simplest way

2008-11-10 Thread Ramasubramanian Ramesh
Hi, I am planning to dist-upgrade to Lenny from Etch. Obviously, I want to backup before upgrade and restore should the upgrade fail for what ever reason. I have my root/usr/var on raid1 arrays. I see that backup is very easy. I drop my netinst CD, boot in rescue mode, mount the mdx arrays

Switching from Etch to Lenny - help me assess the risk.

2008-11-07 Thread Ramasubramanian Ramesh
All, I run Etch+backports at my home gateway/file server. Lately, I find that many packages are too old in Etch for my needs. I am thinking of switching to Lenny. While Lenny is not as stable as Etch, I am not sure how much difference there is, in terms of stability. I am not worried about

Re: Xorg - nv - 8600GT blank screen problem.

2008-10-24 Thread Ramasubramanian Ramesh
vs lenny. Regards Ramesh Mark Allums wrote: Ramasubramanian Ramesh wrote: Thanks. I am having this problem on my home network server/gateway. So, I am trying to keep deviation from stable release to minimal. Since I have 86xx, I cannot use nvidia-glx from stable distribution. I will have to go

Re: Xorg - nv - 8600GT blank screen problem.

2008-10-24 Thread Ramasubramanian Ramesh
No screen savers or BOINC - nothing special. Usual server stuff stock kernel/samba/nfs/amd etc. I use xset +dpms every night at 11pm and remove it at 8am in the morning. Ramesh Mark Allums wrote: Mark Allums wrote: Ramasubramanian Ramesh wrote: I am having issues with my new video card

Re: Xorg - nv - 8600GT blank screen problem.

2008-10-23 Thread Ramasubramanian Ramesh
risky or more stable in your opinion? Going nvidia way or switching to lenny? BTW, is this trouble known and am I raising it again? (I googled and could not find anything correlated to my situation) Ramesh Mark Allums wrote: Ramasubramanian Ramesh wrote: I am having issues with my new video

Xorg - nv - 8600GT blank screen problem.

2008-10-22 Thread Ramasubramanian Ramesh
I am having issues with my new video card MSI 8600GT. Xorg fires up properly and everything is fine as long as I am within X. The moment I try to switch one of the VCs (c-a-f1/2 etc) or exit X, all I get is blank screen and no response from KB/mouse etc. Soon the monitor goes into power save.

Debian success story reports - is there an archive?

2007-03-09 Thread Ramasubramanian Ramesh
Is there a place where people have reported results/sagas/stories of bringing up debian (any version) on specific hardware? I usually find that I am doing most my searching for these types of reports before buying mother boards and associated hardware. Now that I have brought up debian an on

Etch AMD64 daily build netinstall hangs (nforce 430 MB).

2007-02-13 Thread Ramasubramanian Ramesh
All, I am trying to install etch amd64 daily build on to a geforce/nforce 6150/430 based board (Abit NF-M2 socket am2 board) but it hangs. It hangs right after it prints info about detecting 1.44 floppy. I suspect it is the network card that makes it hang. Has any one gotten network working

Is it ok to have and RAID and nonRAID on the same disk?

2007-01-27 Thread Ramasubramanian Ramesh
I am interested in pariring 2x250G into raid mirror for linux installation. However I do not want to use entire 250G into mirror. While I believe it is technically possible to have couple of partitions in raid 1 and the rest as plain disk, I am looking for advise as to whether this is ok?

How to move an existing installation to raid 1

2007-01-05 Thread Ramasubramanian Ramesh
Hi, I searched the net looking for instruction to move an existing installation to raid 1 setup, but could not find much. So I thought I could ask here. I have a semi custom (debiab sarge based) installation. Custom part being mainly kernel build and a little bit of non standard networking.

Re: How to move an existing installation to raid 1

2007-01-05 Thread Ramasubramanian Ramesh
Ramesh Hi, I searched the net looking for instruction to move an existing installation to raid 1 setup, but could not find much. So I thought I could ask here. I have a semi custom (debiab sarge based) installation. Custom part being mainly kernel build and a little bit of non standard

getting nforce4 NIC to work with forcedeth driver.

2006-09-13 Thread Ramasubramanian Ramesh
I have a Biostar T6100+amd64 setup and I tried netinst image for amd64 about a month ago and it could not get the nforce4 NIC to work. It will identify load the forcedeth driver but nothing would happen after that. I can see eth0 but it would not get address from dhcp server. Even if I assign

/etc/printcap problem

2006-05-02 Thread Ramasubramanian Ramesh
I bought a new brother (HL5250DN) printer and wanted to hook it up using its 10/100 network port. It needs a speical filter (if=xxx) to run. But I can't get to use filter and remote print simultaneously. If put the following in /etc/printcap if=filter:\ rm=printer:\ rp=port then it does not

Upgraded to FVWM 2.5 and I need help.

2006-04-05 Thread Ramasubramanian Ramesh
Hi, I recently upgraded from fvwm 2.5 from 2.4.x because I can no longer find fvwm 2.4.x in stable. Since the upgrade, I noticed a couple of issues that I hope you can help to fix. 1) Each time I switch to a window on a different virtual area, it takes an unually long time before the

Re: Upgraded to FVWM 2.5 and I need help.

2006-04-05 Thread Ramasubramanian Ramesh
I am running Sarge and I got everything from official Debian using apt-get. The only thing that is not official is my .fvwm2rc which is the same as the one I used with all previous versions of fvwm. Regards Ramesh Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: Ramasubramanian Ramesh wrote: Hi, I

How to make boot CD to run your curent hard disk installed linux?

2005-10-22 Thread Ramasubramanian Ramesh
Hi, I have installed stable release of debian (using the netinst CD) on a headless machine (no kb, mouse or monitor) . The machine also does not have a floppy drive. I like to make a bood cd of the installed kernel so that I can bypass the grub boot. Specifically the grub setup boots win XP

passwd fails. Please help.

2004-11-09 Thread Ramasubramanian Ramesh
All, I am unable to change passwd as it fails with error message passwd: Authentication token manipulation error. My /etc/pam.d/passwd contains # # The PAM configuration file for the Shadow `passwd' service # # This file is blank to allow fall-through to the 'other' service. As

Re: Passwd fails - what went wrong?

2004-11-08 Thread Ramasubramanian Ramesh
Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 08 November 2004 09:55 am, Ramasubramanian Ramesh wrote: No that is not the problem. The passwd itself fails and I cannot change passwd for any user. In fact the above transcript points this out. passwd

Passwd fails - what went wrong?

2004-11-07 Thread Ramasubramanian Ramesh
Hi, I have not changed passwd or added user for quite some time. This has been the case across several apt-get upgrades. Finally when I got to a point I wanted to setup an account, I ran into the following difficulty. lata [root] 54 adduser lata Adding user lata... Adding new group

Re: Passwd fails - what went wrong?

2004-11-07 Thread Ramasubramanian Ramesh
Kam-Ming Siu wrote: Try adduser -G users lata May be the group lata does not exist as you adding the new user. As I know by default debian would not create individual group for new user. Regards, Ming On Sun, Nov 07, 2004 at 07:07:00PM -0600, Ramasubramanian Ramesh wrote: Hi, I have

What happens if one of the source.list are no longer found.?

2004-03-11 Thread Ramasubramanian Ramesh
Hi, I use testing as my standard distribution. I got xserver-xfree86 4.3 from backports some time back (stable/pre/xfree86) and this directory is no longer available in backports. I suspect this leaves many dependencies hung in apt. It does not want to upgrade xterm xbase-clients etc and

Anyone compile/use transcode in stable/testing

2004-02-03 Thread Ramasubramanian Ramesh
All, My search on package with the name transcode returned nothing. Thus I am assuming that it is not part of standard debian distros. Given that, any one compiled/installed/used the transcode package for creating/modifying/transcoding DVD content? The source has a single step .deb creation

CD-R/RW UDF file system on kernel 2.6.x

2004-01-27 Thread Ramasubramanian Ramesh
Hi, I thought the kernel 2.6 onwards udf writing is standard. Does this mean we still need udftools (pktsetup) to actually write? I am asking because the default mount -t udf only mounts the CD-R/RW as read only. Rather cumbersome to go through a lot of steps before writing to CD. Xcdroast

UDF writing to CD-r/CD-RW - where is pktdvd0 etc?

2004-01-27 Thread Ramasubramanian Ramesh
Any body know how to use udftools with 2.6 kernels? Do I need them or is udf writing native to 2.6? If I need udftools then where is this packet device that pktsetup is looking for? I can seem to find the right menu item in the make menuconfig. to build the kernel with this device. Please

Can I apt-zip with CD-R/RW?

2004-01-26 Thread Ramasubramanian Ramesh
Hi, Are apt-zip-list and apt-zip-inst meant to be used with zip/floppy drives only? i.e., does the medium need to be writable after a mount? How about using CD-R/RW with apt-zip? Has anybody tried this? I am wondering if the following will work. 1) Use apt-zip-list to create the fetch

New kernel crashing - how to test without corrupting disks?

2004-01-17 Thread Ramasubramanian Ramesh
Hi, I am having problems with CD mounting crashing 2.6.1. Each time it craches it freezes and I need to hard reset. Reboot always has severe disk errors on /var and some time in /. I suspect improper set of driver combo to be the problem. I like to try a couple of combination. But like to

How to compile with .so libraries instead of .a ones?

2004-01-17 Thread Ramasubramanian Ramesh
Hi, I always thought that the libxx.a libraries are needed to compile programs. However it appears that it is possible to compile programs without them (I suppose this means .so version will be used). This I gather from the response from the debian maintainer of libqt-dev (testing) - libqt-dev

kernel 2.4.18 crash with alsa 1.0.1 (snd-au8820)

2004-01-16 Thread Ramasubramanian Ramesh
All, I believe I have a crash with alsa 1.0.1 on kernel 2.4.18. Here is what happened. I took alsa-driver-1.0.1.tar.bz2 from ALSA site and followed the instruction to build/install under Aureal Generic document (readme that comes when you search for aureal cards). I did not create

Re: Can't insmod any more after kernel 2.6

2004-01-15 Thread Ramasubramanian Ramesh
Found the problem I need module-init-tools. modutils is no good for 2.6 kernels. After apt-get install module-init-tools everything is fine. Sorry for the clutter. Regards Ramesh Ramasubramanian Ramesh wrote: Hi, Since this morning I am running 2.6.0-test9 (upgraded from

Re: Re: Re: 3COM Gig ethernet driver compile woes (source from 3COM/ASUS)

2004-01-14 Thread Ramasubramanian Ramesh
--- On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 10:36:09AM -0600, Ramasubramanian Ramesh wrote: Thanks Collin. The code that is causing problem is in kernel-2.6.test9 asm/checksum.h. Are you sure? I've got 2.6.1-rc1 here patched for powerpc, but the code seems to be correct

How to disk cleanup after apt-get upgrade/install/remove cycles?

2004-01-14 Thread Ramasubramanian Ramesh
All, Often one is not sure of the choices and strength of packages/utilities and tend to install multiple utilies for the same purpose. For example I have about 3 or 4 cd players and assortment of mp3 palyers etc. Sooner or later you see that a lot of left over packages exists in your system

Can't insmod any more after kernel 2.6

2004-01-14 Thread Ramasubramanian Ramesh
Hi, Since this morning I am running 2.6.0-test9 (upgraded from 2.4.18) to sort things out. However I noticed that my first test itself has proved to be impasse. I am nolonger able to load modules. I did make bzdisk make modules (no modules_install yet) boot of the floppy goto one of the

Re: Re: Can't make xconfig for kernel 2.6.test9

2004-01-13 Thread Ramasubramanian Ramesh
On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 05:25:45PM -0600, Ramasubramanian Ramesh wrote: | Hi, | | I seem to have a problem doing make xconfig on the kernel-2.6.test9 | sources | obtained from sarge. I suspect qt installation problem based on the ld | output. But you can see from apt-get output

Re: Re: 3COM Gig ethernet driver compile woes (source from 3COM/ASUS)

2004-01-13 Thread Ramasubramanian Ramesh
On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 09:46:56AM -0600, Ramasubramanian Ramesh wrote: I changed gcc from 3.3.2 version to 2.95.4 and everything compiles well. So, now I am wondering if this is a real gcc problem. No; see my previous message. gcc 3.3.2 is stricter than 2.95.4, but correctly so

Re: 3COM Gig ethernet driver compile woes (source from 3COM/ASUS)

2004-01-12 Thread Ramasubramanian Ramesh
My own followup: I changed gcc from 3.3.2 version to 2.95.4 and everything compiles well. So, now I am wondering if this is a real gcc problem. Who is the gcc contact? Ramesh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Re: 3COM Gig ethernet driver compile woes (source from 3COM/ASUS)

2004-01-12 Thread Ramasubramanian Ramesh
Robert, Your message does help. It reinforces my claim that the problem is gcc 3.3.2. I have independantly verified it by compiling using gcc 2.95.4 and yes it compiles as expected. Regards Ramesh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Re: Re: Can't make xconfig for kernel 2.6.test9

2004-01-12 Thread Ramasubramanian Ramesh
On Sun, 11 Jan 2004 17:25:45 -0600, Ramasubramanian Ramesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, I seem to have a problem doing make xconfig on the kernel-2.6.test9 ..try 2.6.1 instead. The point with kernel-2.6.test9 was fix bugs for kernel-2.6.test10 etc, so

Can't make xconfig for kernel 2.6.test9

2004-01-11 Thread Ramasubramanian Ramesh
Hi, I seem to have a problem doing make xconfig on the kernel-2.6.test9 sources obtained from sarge. I suspect qt installation problem based on the ld output. But you can see from apt-get output (at the end) libqt-dev is installed. But per locate there are not libqt.a files. So I am a bit

3COM Gig ethernet driver compile woes (source from 3COM/ASUS)

2004-01-10 Thread Ramasubramanian Ramesh
Hi, I got the source for 3COM gig ethernet card from Asus website and I am having compile issue. I suspect it is more of gcc/ccp issue rather than 3COM code. Here is what I get on the very first file skge.c lata [rramesh] 574 make gcc -D__KERNEL__ -Wall -fno-strict-aliasing

How xcdroast a multi-session CD R/RW?

2004-01-07 Thread Ramasubramanian Ramesh
Hi, I tried vainly yesterday to make a muti-session CD-RW using xcdroast (in sarge). There are menu items to create such a CD but I am messing up. I looked for manuals and the html version that gets installed with xcdroast does not talk about how to make muti-session CDs. Also I do not know

Re: How xcdroast a multi-session CD R/RW? - solved.

2004-01-07 Thread Ramasubramanian Ramesh
I am following up my own post as I have solved the problem myself. 1) You need to create session/image with write as a session enabled. if you do so it will ask you if you want first or next session - answer appropriately. if you want later sessions then you need the cd to which

Re: Re: Using RAID chipsets in the motherboard.

2004-01-02 Thread Ramasubramanian Ramesh
Matthias, Thanks a lot for your reply. This is very comprehensive and to the point. Thank you again. You made my day. I believe in time, the VIA solution will appear.Until then I will use SATA. It is my understanding that a PATA IDE drive can be connected to SATA adapter with some cable

Re: Re: Please suggest a mobo for 4 IDE drives.

2003-12-31 Thread Ramasubramanian Ramesh
Paul, Sorry for starting the second thread. But some how the first thread seem to have given the wrong impression about why I was looking for RAID controller. You can easily see from the replies that it went deep into the worlds of RAID as opposed to leading to 5+drives on the same mobo. To

Using RAID chipsets in the motherboard.

2003-12-30 Thread Ramasubramanian Ramesh
Hi, It is been a while since I did active stuff with linux. Thus my knowledge of what is current in the OS is outdated. I tried to get newer info with HOWTOs and other stuff. But still I am not sure at all. Here are my questions. 1) All most all of the newer motherboards come with SATA RAID.

Re: Using RAID chipsets in the motherboard.

2003-12-30 Thread Ramasubramanian Ramesh
or JBOD) Thanks and Regards Ramesh Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Tue, 30 Dec 2003, Ramasubramanian Ramesh wrote: 1) All most all of the newer motherboards come with SATA RAID. Is this usable as is without any additional kernel drivers. I ask this because I read in many

Re: Using RAID chipsets in the motherboard.

2003-12-30 Thread Ramasubramanian Ramesh
All, I suppose I was not clear about the reason for using the on mobo RAID chipsets. I simply want to have the ability to use more than 4 IDE devices. I thought using the on board RAID controller was a easy solutions. I suppose not. All I want to do is to have the ability to run 4 IDE

Please suggest a mobo for 4 IDE drives.

2003-12-30 Thread Ramasubramanian Ramesh
Hi, I am ready to upgrade my aging Gateway PII 300 to some thing more modern. I plan to build my machine if I could and therefore looking for a motherboard. I like to have the ability to use more than the usual 4 IDE devices. Is there a solution (mobo choice) other than buying a standard one

Diald setup problem - Please help

1997-03-25 Thread Ramasubramanian Ramesh
Hi all: I have the following problem which makes diald difficult to use. I have a straight forward installation of debian with options (diald,ppp) file adjusted to reflect my setup. Whenever I fire a network needy application (like telnet, ftp) diald immediately wakes up and sets up the