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How can I enable spinning down of idle hard disks on a Debian (Lenny) server?
I don't have spindown enabled currently, but if I watch the HD light it flashes every few seconds even though I know the server isn't being used for anything. Presumably the...
Started by pauldoo on
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I think you....
Debian has syslog sending a MARK to the logfileI would guess this simply depends on the firmware of the hard disk controller if it supports disks (logfiles?).
Step in getting the system to not write out to disk.
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The title pretty much sums it up.
I installed Debian inside a Virtual Machine on my mac using WMWare Fusion using the default settings (8gig harddrive space) but it's now full.
I've upped the disk allowance in the VWWare settings but is there any way ...
Started by Adam Taylor on
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Hi
I suggest you use a boot up disk of GParted available.
Of /etc/fstab would help us help you.
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Hi,
I have just installed Debian testing on my new desktop and I am not very happy with performance - when I perform a disk intensive operation, e.g. upgrade packages in the system, everything seems to freeze, e.g. changing tabs in Iceweasel takes 3 seconds...
Started by Grzenio on
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Check with
hdparm -i /dev/sda
whether one of the DMA modes is enabled.... .
It's a shot in the dark, but I've had a problem like this a while ago, and the cause turned out to be that the kernel did not support the chipset completely and DMA was turned off .
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On Tue, 08 Jan 2008 14:46:06 -0700, "Ted Hilts - Thunderbird Acct." <thilts33@telus.net> wrote:
I obtained the full set of Ubuntu disks, installed the desktop stuff and
now have a working system without SERVERS. It seems the servers come on...
Started by Ted Hilts - Thunderbird Acct. on
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But I want it to run off to the Debian Debian packages - then install....
It seems the
servers come on another disk separate from the LIVE/INSTALL desktop which very nicely rushed off to the Ubuntu
repository.
Without SERVERS.
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I monitored my disk on my server because my website is slow.
Here is my disk statistic:
Read: 0.29 reqs/s Write: 50.19 reqs/s
I don't understand why I have 50 requests by second on my disk in writing.
How can I find the program which write like a pig ...
Started by Kiva on
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Space? is it enabled? is your memory full, and is the machine thus trying to swap to disk continuously.
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Hi,
I have no idea, is it possible to run a virtual Red Hat server on a debian system?
If yes, how?
I have debian lenny.
Thank you
Started by plucked on
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Based Xen administration utility ii xen-tools 4.1-1 Tools to manage Debian XEN virtual servers ii xen a filesystem on the new "Harddisk"
mkfs.ext3 /your/created/disk/or/lvm/lvolume
Mount it: mount -o loop /your/created/disk/or/lvm....
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On Wed, 16 Jul 2008 12:15:19 +0300, "Jabka Atu" <mashrom.head@gmail.com
Howdy ,
I wish to create a Debian an image that can be dd'ed into a hard drive.
So for instance if i have a mulfunctioning hard drive i could put other disk
and just use dd...
Started by Jabka Atu on
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Are you installing
Debian on qemu, and then intend to clone i need to change it to raw format....
This qemu image to a real hard
disk? That might work (Debian is not Windows), but is not ideal not understand what you are trying to do.
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On Sat, 1 Sep 2007 04:15:56 -0700 (PDT), Pjotr Malienki <pjotr.malienki@yahoo.com> wrote:
I am having problems mounting one of my USB disks by
its UUID. Mounting the drive as /dev/sdx# works
flawlessly. As I am not sure how to approach the
problem...
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> Pjotr
what does 'ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid/' and 'ls -l /dev....
> /dev/disk/by-uuid does not list the UUID of the disk, or advice would be greatly
> appreciated.
Correctly lists the disk and corresponding info.
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I just installed Debian 5 (Lenny) and I noticed that /lib/init/rw is reported as a RAM Disk (tmpfs). I've only had experience with Fedora so I'm curious what function does that directory serve in Debian. Can it be used by user written shell scripts to...
Started by GeneQ on
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If you do use a tmpfs filesystem for temporary data, be aware your own tmpfs based mount instead of using the one Debian creates for their standard scripts.
Filesystem instead of being on disk.
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I've been considering migrating my laptop from Ubuntu to Debian. I didn't set up a separate home partition. Is it as easy as just installing Debian over Ubuntu?
Started by Jason Baker on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at superuser):
Just ....
Sudo cp -a /home /media/disk Edit your /etc/fstab file and create a new your distro is incredibly simple.
Mount the new drive: sudo mount /dev/sda3 /media/disk Copy permissions and ownership).
On a drive (eg /dev/sda3) in gparted.
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