Re: upgrade

2019-02-21 Thread Rick Moen via luv-main
Quoting Mark Trickett (marktrick...@gmail.com): > A small query, nothing fixed, but when is Buster expected > to be released? Russell already gave you the serious answer, so I can now supply the frivolous one that doesn't help you. ;-> There are two traditional answers inside Debian Projet

Re: Boot problems after adding 2 new disks

2019-02-21 Thread Andrew Voumard via luv-main
> Question - Should I choose Ubuntu 18.04 LTS or install 18.10 which will > need an upgrade at the end of July? > > Question: To set up my SSD for root and the other two drives as RAID 1 > mounted as /home, is it simply a matter of choosing btrfs? I haven't > built a Ubuntu Server before. Hi

Re: Boot problems after adding 2 new disks

2019-02-21 Thread Mark Trickett via luv-main
Hello Andrew, On 2/22/19, Andrew Greig via luv-main wrote: > Hi All, > > I have purchased a new 1Tb SSD and I have two unused SATA 2Tb drives, > and currently 8Gb RAM (max capacity 32Gb DDR3 1866) I will settle for > 24Gb soon. > > I have two optical drives, I will settle for one. > > MB =

Re: Boot problems after adding 2 new disks

2019-02-21 Thread Andrew Greig via luv-main
Hi All, I have purchased a new 1Tb SSD and I have two unused SATA 2Tb drives, and currently 8Gb RAM (max capacity 32Gb DDR3 1866) I will settle for 24Gb soon. I have two optical drives, I will settle for one. MB = ASRock 890 GM Pro3 5 sata slots Currently the optical drive is in slot one

Re: upgrade

2019-02-21 Thread Russell Coker via luv-main
On Friday, 22 February 2019 4:55:07 PM AEDT Mark Trickett wrote: > Hello Russell, > > On 2/22/19, Russell Coker via luv-main wrote: > > A few days ago there was some downtime on the LUV server because rebooting > > another VM on the same hardware revealed a bug in the KVM scripts that > > shut >

Re: upgrade

2019-02-21 Thread Mark Trickett via luv-main
Hello Russell, On 2/22/19, Russell Coker via luv-main wrote: > A few days ago there was some downtime on the LUV server because rebooting > another VM on the same hardware revealed a bug in the KVM scripts that shut > off IPv4 access. > > Tonight I have just upgraded the LUV server to

Re: Boot problems after adding 2 new disks

2019-02-21 Thread Andrew Greig via luv-main
Hi Craig, I am unsure how much to clip as your response is comprehensive. But to start /dev/sda1 is my 1 TB drive and it is showing as having boot and lvm, do not know how root and swap were assigned to sdb1 The extra drives are 2 TB drives The problem with /dev/sdc1 not being part of the

RAM & LUV's HW Library (was Re: Boot problems after adding 2 new disks)

2019-02-21 Thread Craig Sanders via luv-main
On Fri, Feb 22, 2019 at 10:22:38AM +1100, Russell Coker wrote: > In regard to the hardware advice. The LUV hardware library often has DDR3 > RAM for free, but 4G modules don't hang around long. If anyone is upgrading > from a DDR3 system to DDR4 please donate your old RAM as lots of people have >

Re: Boot problems after adding 2 new disks

2019-02-21 Thread Craig Sanders via luv-main
On Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at 11:14:13PM +1100, Andrew Greig wrote: > Looking at the disks in gparted I have: > > /dev/sda1 > File system lvn2 pv > Label > UUID sI0LJX-JSme-W2Yt-rFiZ-bQcV-lwFN-tSetH5 > Volume Group ubuntu-vg > Members /dev/sda1 /dev/sdb1 > Partition /dev/sda1 > Name > Flags boot/lvm >

Re: Boot problems after adding 2 new disks

2019-02-21 Thread Russell Coker via luv-main
In regard to the hardware advice. The LUV hardware library often has DDR3 RAM for free, but 4G modules don't hang around long. If anyone is upgrading from a DDR3 system to DDR4 please donate your old RAM as lots of people have a use for this. Also we need more SATA disks, if anyone has disks

Re: making backports I have built recognised as providing correct package

2019-02-21 Thread Mark Trickett via luv-main
Hello Craig, On 2/20/19, Craig Sanders via luv-main wrote: > On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 08:11:16PM +1100, Mark Trickett wrote: >> Aha, another piece of using apt-get. It is brilliant, but also a very >> steep >> learning curve. It would be very good to have a good cheat sheet in a >> printable

Re: upgrade

2019-02-21 Thread Andrew Pam via luv-main
On 22/2/19 12:33 am, Russell Coker via luv-main wrote: > Tonight I have just upgraded the LUV server to Debian/Testing (we are in the > freeze process for the next release of Debian). In the process of upgrading > the LUV server and other servers I run to Debian/Testing I've fixed many >

upgrade

2019-02-21 Thread Russell Coker via luv-main
A few days ago there was some downtime on the LUV server because rebooting another VM on the same hardware revealed a bug in the KVM scripts that shut off IPv4 access. Tonight I have just upgraded the LUV server to Debian/Testing (we are in the freeze process for the next release of Debian).

Re: Boot problems after adding 2 new disks

2019-02-21 Thread Andrew Greig via luv-main
Looking at the disks in gparted I have: /dev/sda1 File system lvn2 pv Label UUID sI0LJX-JSme-W2Yt-rFiZ-bQcV-lwFN-tSetH5 Volume Group ubuntu-vg Members /dev/sda1 /dev/sdb1 Partition /dev/sda1 Name Flags boot/lvm /dev/sdb1 File system lvm2 pv Label UUID 9HV3H6-JIYu-IdaS-2CGr-lkZQ-9xcB-RVu9Ks

Re: Boot problems after adding 2 new disks

2019-02-21 Thread Andrew Greig via luv-main
Hi Craig, I tried to follow the UUID process and I think it worked OK. andrew@andrew-desktop:~$ blkid /dev/sdb1: UUID= andrew@andrew-desktop:~$ blkid /dev/sda1: UUID="sI0LJX-JSme-W2Yt-rFiZ-bQcV-lwFN-tSetH5" TYPE="LVM2_member" PARTUUID="92e664e1-01" /dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-root: