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We are planning to migrate to a new SAN storage environment. Our RHEL5.5 servers boot over SAN.

1. I was wondering if using "lvm mirroring" or "pvmove" would be a solution.
2. Do they do...

I am not understanding what you wanted to achieve.
Are you planning to migrate to new environment or something?

Have you tried. Removing the wwid from /etc/multipath.conf
And reload multipathd

Not sure if /etc/multipath/wwid is updated automatically. But when we had to bring a new LUN into multipath. The...

Thanks, Peasant,
I guess that will be the simplest solution to this problem. Was trying to make sure this could be done automatically. But guess have to do manual mounts when we face issues.

With...

Hello, sorry was caught up with few things.
Answer's to questions:
1. OS - Red Hat 5.5
2. Cluster Software: Oracle RAC.
3. Database: Oracle 11g
4. It is not a separate volume group.
5. Volume...

Try using the graphical installer if possible.
http://www.teamviewer.com/en/help/363-How-do-I-install-TeamViewer-on-my-Linux-distribution.aspx

We have 2 servers in cluster. Node1 has an ext3 mount for backups and the other connects using NFS to this node1.
I believe the reason it is configured in this manner is to not duplicate backups...

Hello,

I wanted to simulate SAN on my VMware PLayer running RHEL.
Is there any tool that can be used to simulate storage setup for learning/testing?

THanks,

Hello,

WE currently have a RedHat5.4 server which we need to upgrade with latest patches. This runs database Oracle 11gR2.

If anyone can suggest if it is better to perform patches update or...

Assuming if it is as root I should have permission

I believe you are asking about permission to /test1/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 27 11:59 test1

For the Mount
drwxr-xr-x 16...

Hello,

I am trying to backup a directory to an NFS mount. But after mounting the "tar" command is failing.

1. Created folder for mount point: test1
2. Mounted desired mount: ...

Hello Sixsprings... I reducerd the percentage to 3% and have 8GB space still allocated for root access. Did not reduce the size to 0. THink this should be enough.

---------- Post updated at 02:15...

I guess I needed refresher for my Disk Partitions basics.
Forgot that about 5% is used for root access on all partitions and this looks like it.

Was able to reduce this using tune2fs command.

Hello
I am using LVM to create volumes.

After creating the volumes using "lvcreate" and then formating them as "ext3".
I mounted these volumes to find around 40 -50GB space wasted.

Any...

Thanks, The Mail Server info was incorrectly entered.

The issue was on RHEL 5.5 which is on VMWare

THANKS Scott for you help.

Do we need to install LVM package, I have an Ubuntu VM machine. Will try and use LVM on this VM.

sdc I dropped as it is a different disk and will be an entirely used for sdc1.

I am not sure how to partition /sdb into 2
If it can be done without fdisk. Can you please guide as to what steps...

I think I messed up by deleting the physical volumes.
I was getting errors
# vgscan -v
Wiping cache of LVM-capable devices
Wiping internal VG cache
Reading all physical volumes. This...

As far as I can see the /etc/hosts file has the servername and IP mentioned and the local domain is mentioned in the /etc/resolv.conf

Is there usually a Relay Server in between.
Not sure how...

Action: failed
Status: 5.1.2
Remote-MTA: DNS; <servername>.<localdomain>
Diagnostic-Code: SMTP; 550 Host unknown

Using RHEL 5.5
New to using 'mailx'
Was trying to check if mailx is configured.

mailx command gives a list of unread mails.

Now I tried to send mail using this command to a local or on...

I changed the blocks allotted. So was able to create 2 partitions in /sdb. But still get partition error

# pvcreate /dev/sdb2
Device /dev/sdb2 not found (or ignored by filtering).

]# fdisk...

well I am creating u01, u02 and u03 as LVM's. u01 and u02 will be on /dev/sdb
and u03 on /dev/sdc.

u02 will be 60G
u01 All remaining space on sdb

This is what I am trying to achieve

THanks for reply.
I f I want part of the physical disk to have 2 volumes.
example: /dev/sdb device will have /dev/sdb1 and dev/sdb2

Now what I am doing is first assigning u02 (/dev/sdb1) with...