[RAS] nebka down

[Christian Zimmermann]

I am on it right now.

Christian Zimmermann                                     FIGUGEGL!
Department of Economics
University of Connecticut
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Storrs, CT 06269-1063
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On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, Thomas Krichel wrote:

>
>  Ruggieri, Timothy writes
>
>> I was out sick most of last week and missed the excitement.
>
>  Oh, you poor thing.
>
>> I can go take a look at Nebka today (Monday).  I don't know what I
>> can do beyond fscking and rebooting again though.
>
>  disk /dev/sda 80G needs to be replaced by the 140G disk.
>
>  1. Boot into single user mode.
>  2. Mount root disk read-only
>
> mount -o ro,remount /dev/sda1
>
>  3. Check disk with badblock check
>
> e2fsck -c -y /dev/sda1
>
>  4. reboot into single use
>  5. make sure sdb1 is mounted as /vol
>  6. rsync to /vol
>
> rsync -va --exclude /vol --exclude /proc --exclude /sys / /vol
>
>  7. install grub
>
> grub-install --root-directory /vol/boot/grub /dev/sdb1
>
>  8. shutdown machine, exchange disk sda and sdb.
>
>  9. fiddle with bios so that it boots from what was sdb, now sda.
>
>  Good luck!
>
>
>  Cheers,
>
>  Thomas Krichel                    http://openlib.org/home/krichel
>                                RePEc:per:1965-06-05:thomas_krichel
>  phone: +7 383 330 6813                       skype: thomaskrichel
>
>
>
>>
>> Tim
>>
>> --
>>
>> Timothy Ruggieri
>> Computer Support Consultant
>> CLAS Dean's Office
>> University of Connecticut
>> timothy.ruggieri at uconn.edu
>> (860) 486-0713
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: ras-run-bounces at lists.openlib.org
>> [mailto:ras-run-bounces at lists.openlib.org] On Behalf Of Thomas Krichel
>> Sent: Monday, March 24, 2008 4:02 AM
>> To: Zimmermann, Christian
>> Cc: RAS-RUN
>> Subject: Re: [RAS] nebka down
>>
>>
>>   Christian Zimmermann writes
>>
>>> And once more a Saturday at 7:37.
>>
>>   I guess it is a setback for badblock theorists.
>>
>>> I am *not* going to campus this week-end. I could not work on the
>> machine
>>> yesterday, as it continually had a load above 1.
>>
>>   My commiserations!
>>
>>
>>   Cheers,
>>
>>   Thomas Krichel                    http://openlib.org/home/krichel
>>                                 RePEc:per:1965-06-05:thomas_krichel
>>   phone: +7 383 330 6813                       skype: thomaskrichel
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