no space left on device false positive

2002-10-17 Thread Guy Baruch
Hello. I'm trying to create an internal freedb server on my home machine. this DB has very large directories with a lot of small entries. I have it on a default ext3 partition, and it takes 2.4GB on the HD. The reason being that most the files are ~1K files. Since I had some space left, I

Re: no space left on device false positive

2002-10-17 Thread Official Flamer/Cabal NON-Leader
Quoth Guy Baruch: The reason being that most the files are ~1K files. no space left on device error repeatedly. You are running out of inodes. Do `df -i` and see. M the remainder fails on the same error. df reports this partition has ~700M occupied, ~3.2GB free, so there really is

Re: no space left on device false positive

2002-10-17 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 08:40:11AM +0200, Guy Baruch wrote: Hello. I'm trying to create an internal freedb server on my home machine. this DB has very large directories with a lot of small entries. I have it on a default ext3 partition, and it takes 2.4GB on the HD. The reason being that

RE: PCI MODEM for MDK 8.0?

2002-10-17 Thread Martin Polley
I am successfully using a Zoom Lucent-based Winmodem under Redhat 7.3 and Gentoo 1.2 I don't see any reason why it shouldn't work with Mandrake. (Just get the right ltmodem driver for your kernel.) HTH, Martin Polley Technical Communicator http://www.surf-com.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: (+972)

Re: no space left on device false positive

2002-10-17 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Thu, 17 Oct 2002, Guy Baruch wrote: Hello. I'm trying to create an internal freedb server on my home machine. this DB has very large directories with a lot of small entries. I have it on a default ext3 partition, and it takes 2.4GB on the HD. The reason being that most the files are

Re: A mandrake and a KDE 3 question + general impressions

2002-10-17 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Thu, 17 Oct 2002, Oded Arbel wrote: The switch back to the RPM system is a bit traumatic for me. I MISS APT-GET! I managed to find a tool that will let me install a package by name if it's on the Mandrake CDs, and that's fine as far as it gets. Like my esteemed colleges have

Re: why not reiserfs

2002-10-17 Thread Guy Baruch
Tzafrir Cohen wrote: Just a comment: You create a special partition for this, and it is supposed to have large directories with lots of small files. Did you consider use reiserfs? yes, I know ext2/3 is not a good choice, (quadratic behaviour on copy). reiserfs would have been my first

mounting /

2002-10-17 Thread Lior Kesos
I'm experiencing problems on mounting an exported / directory (I know it's not safe practice - no choice and in secure intranet). I can export the / but when I try to mount it I get a permission denied error. I've looked for configuration flags both on the export and on the mount. Has anybody

Re: A mandrake and a KDE 3 question + general impressions

2002-10-17 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Thu, 17 Oct 2002, Oded Arbel wrote: The switch back to the RPM system is a bit traumatic for me. I MISS APT-GET! I managed to find a tool that will let me install a package by name if it's on the Mandrake CDs, and that's fine as far as it gets. Like my

Re: why not reiserfs

2002-10-17 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Guy Baruch wrote: Tzafrir Cohen wrote: Just a comment: You create a special partition for this, and it is supposed to have large directories with lots of small files. Did you consider use reiserfs? yes, I know ext2/3 is not a good choice, (quadratic behaviour on copy). reiserfs

Re: Upgrade to RH 8.0 fails - /dev/sda15 doesn't exist !

2002-10-17 Thread Shachar Shemesh
What happens if you mknod sda15? Shachar Aharon Schkolnik wrote: Hi. I'm trying to upgrade from RH 7.3 to 8.0. My root partition is on sda15. The installation fails because the installation doesn't have a /dev/sda15 - just up to sda14. Any ideas how to work around this

Re: why not reiserfs

2002-10-17 Thread Ira Abramov
Quoting Guy Baruch, from the post of Thu, 17 Oct: man mkreiserfs gives: BUGS No other blocksizes but 4k are available. so using reiserfs will not save space. ext2/3 do have 1K block-size. Reiser will fold the tails of several files into a single block, and small files may be

Re: why not reiserfs

2002-10-17 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Thu, Oct 17, 2002, Ira Abramov wrote about Re: why not reiserfs: another way to go about it, is not to use a disk partition as your hyrarchial DB, but use a relational DB instead and suck all those pesky tiny files into mySQL. By the way, Hans Reiser's original rationale for writing

hdd partitioning

2002-10-17 Thread Sagi Bashari
Hi I'm setting up a new server and I wondered about hdd partitioning - I need big /var and also a big /home - I thought about creating one big /home and symlinking the /var to /home/var . Is there anything that should stop me from doing that? Any performance issues? I'm using ext3. Sagi

Re: why not reiserfs

2002-10-17 Thread Ira Abramov
Quoting Nadav Har'El, from the post of Thu, 17 Oct: By the way, Hans Reiser's original rationale for writing ReiserFS was not to write a journaling filesystem that will take over Linux, per se - it was *exectly* to write a filesystem that will alleviate the need for database files,

Re: Reverse ADSL?

2002-10-17 Thread guy keren
On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, Oleg Kobets wrote: No, there is what is called Synchronous ADSL. Both streams can go as far as 12Mbps (I think), but Bezeq using the Asynchronous one. i think you're refering to Synchronous DSL (SDSL). the 'A' in ADSL stands for Asynchronous. there are also other types

Re: hdd partitioning

2002-10-17 Thread Ira Abramov
Quoting Sagi Bashari, from the post of Thu, 17 Oct: Hi I'm setting up a new server and I wondered about hdd partitioning - I need big /var and also a big /home - I thought about creating one big /home and symlinking the /var to /home/var . Is there anything that should stop me from

Re: Reverse ADSL?

2002-10-17 Thread Barak Kaufman
the A stands for asymmetric On Thursday 17 October 2002 13:35, guy keren wrote: On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, Oleg Kobets wrote: No, there is what is called Synchronous ADSL. Both streams can go as far as 12Mbps (I think), but Bezeq using the Asynchronous one. i think you're refering to Synchronous

Re: hdd partitioning

2002-10-17 Thread Ehud Karni
On Thu, 17 Oct 2002 12:45:39 +0200, Sagi Bashari [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm setting up a new server and I wondered about hdd partitioning - I need big /var and also a big /home - I thought about creating one big /home and symlinking the /var to /home/var . I divide the disk into 3

ftp vs nfs linux instalation

2002-10-17 Thread Boris Gorelik
Hello, I'm planning to install linux (RH 7.3) on 5 computers in one day. Since I don't want to burn multiple sets of instalation diskettes, I thought to use existing linux machine (all the machines are connected to LAN) as either FTP or NFS server. Can anyone tell, please, which of the two

Routing -vpn

2002-10-17 Thread Meir Michanie
Hi list, I need help with a complicate network structure and its routing table. How should i route to a network behind another network that it is not going through default gateway local-network: 10.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 conflict vpn-network:192.168.1.0 255.255.255.0 remote-network-through-vpn:

Routing -vpn

2002-10-17 Thread meirm
Hi list, I need help with a complicate network structure and its routing table. How should i route to a network behind another network that it is not going through default gateway local-network: 10.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 conflict vpn-network:192.168.1.0 255.255.255.0 remote-network-through-vpn:

RedHat 8.0 vs. 7.3, LVM (was: Re: hdd partitioning)

2002-10-17 Thread Sagi Bashari
On 10/17/2002 1:04 PM, Ira Abramov wrote: Quoting Sagi Bashari, from the post of Thu, 17 Oct: Hi I'm setting up a new server and I wondered about hdd partitioning - I need big /var and also a big /home - I thought about creating one big /home and symlinking the /var to /home/var . Is

Re: Reverse ADSL?

2002-10-17 Thread guy keren
On Thu, 17 Oct 2002, Barak Kaufman wrote: the A stands for asymmetric oops. ofcourse. stupid me :0 -- guy sorry, no world domination today. come back - one year = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word

Re: RedHat 8.0 vs. 7.3, LVM (was: Re: hdd partitioning)

2002-10-17 Thread Ira Abramov
Quoting Sagi Bashari, from the post of Thu, 17 Oct: I need a big /var for logs and databases (mysql currently). What if I create small /var(cache|spool) and symlink the logs/databases to /home/var? better leave the logs behind as well. as for the database - you can give it a path to crate

Fwd: Re: [gnubies-il] new RedHat 8.0 problem (was RedHat 8.0 booting problem)

2002-10-17 Thread Alexander Maryanovsky
I'm cross posting here, since gnubies-il seems to be silent... Hopefully nobody will mind. Alexander Maryanovsky. An update and a new problem: I booted into single user mode with the CD using linux rescue. I then ran: depmode -a --show /lib/modules/2.4.18-14/modules.dep because running just

Re: Upgrade to RH 8.0 fails - /dev/sda15 doesn't exist !

2002-10-17 Thread Robert Wallner
On Thursday 17 October 2002 08:11, Aharon Schkolnik wrote: Hi. I'm trying to upgrade from RH 7.3 to 8.0. My root partition is on sda15. The installation fails because the installation doesn't have a /dev/sda15 - just up to sda14. Any ideas how to work around this problem ? TIA. When

Re: RedHat 8.0 vs. 7.3, LVM (was: Re: hdd partitioning)

2002-10-17 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Ira Abramov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 8.0 seems to be annoying even workstation users. It seems a recurring motive for quite a few posters here (and elsewhere). I have not tried RH 8.0, so I should shut up, but just to remind those who have forgotten, it has long been the Common Wisdom not to

RedHat 8.0 on IGLU - finally

2002-10-17 Thread guy keren
we finally got RedHat Linux 8.0 ISO images on iglu's server. it can be found on the ftp server with the rest of RedHat's files. note that for installation you only need the 1st 3 ISOs - the other 2 contain SRPM (source code) files. the ISO images were taken from tel-aviv university's redhat

More on Routing- VPN

2002-10-17 Thread Meir Michanie
how come if i know the vpn is running, couse I can telnet other machines in the remote network, i do not see another interface on my side. (remember this is solaris) before I get spammed, I asking this here because: 1. I learned linux becuase I though would be the best way to learn UNIX. 2. Linux

Re: Routing -vpn

2002-10-17 Thread Baruch Even
I do not understand the problem as the explanation is somewhat jumbled. When you start up your machine, the routing sould be: DestGateway netmask dev 10.0.0.00.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 hme0 0.0.0.0 10.0.0.138 0.0.0.0 hme0 After the vpn is up you get an extra line:

Re: A mandrake and a KDE 3 question + general impressions

2002-10-17 Thread Oded Arbel
On Thursday 17 October 2002 09:38 am, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: In that sense a more relevant question is: would urpmi allow me to upgrade a live system from a default installation of mandrake 8.2 to mandrake 9.0? Technologically it is possible. Buyt does it actually work? What are the chances of

Re: why not reiserfs

2002-10-17 Thread Oded Arbel
On Thursday 17 October 2002 10:12 am, Guy Baruch wrote: man mkreiserfs gives: BUGS No other blocksizes but 4k are available. so using reiserfs will not save space. ext2/3 do have 1K block-size. I do the copy once. Since this is a home-server (no more than 2-3 queries a day),

Re: A mandrake and a KDE 3 question + general impressions

2002-10-17 Thread Oded Arbel
On Thursday 17 October 2002 10:36 am, Shachar Shemesh wrote: I'll add to what Tzafrir said - The reason I was using the same distro without reinstalling before this crash came along is that, with debian, you don't need to. The system was kept up to date with practically no effort on my side.

An RPM question

2002-10-17 Thread Oded Arbel
Hi list. I tried to find how to do this on my own, but failed - I wonder if it can be done at all : I have a SPEC file that I use to build an RPM from a CVS source. at the top of the spec file I have a %define which says %define use_cvs 1 now down the file, in the %prep stage it checks that

Re: An RPM question

2002-10-17 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Thu, 17 Oct 2002, Oded Arbel wrote: Hi list. I tried to find how to do this on my own, but failed - I wonder if it can be done at all : I have a SPEC file that I use to build an RPM from a CVS source. at the top of the spec file I have a %define which says %define use_cvs 1

Re: no space left on device false positive

2002-10-17 Thread Meir Michanie
It happened to me because of a problem with postgresql that created a lot of tables. On Thu, 2002-10-17 at 08:54, Official Flamer/Cabal NON-Leader wrote: Quoth Guy Baruch: The reason being that most the files are ~1K files. no space left on device error repeatedly. You are running

Re: An RPM question

2002-10-17 Thread Oleg Kobets
Alternatively, you can use some kind of perl/shell script that executes in the post-install stage and changes the SPEC file. Should be easy enough. - Original Message - From: Tzafrir Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Oded Arbel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 17,