OpenSuSE 12.3 Auto Mount USB

I'm very used to working on a linux machine, programing in Unix terminals all through college. That said, I have never needed to work with linux distributions or doing more than some apt-get software installation.

I need to make a CD. I need a machine to be able to boot from this CD. I would like there to be a unix terminal that runs a script automatically. This script must be able to mount an NFS drive, do simple networking (TCP/IP), and update the software on the machine running it through deleting/adding files.

I guess I need an .iso for a linux distro that has files and a script already on it that can be used to update a bunch of these specific machines?

Should I go through the LFS project in order to learn how to do this?

I'm pretty lost and need some help. Thanks!

I am running a headless Linux 17 media/NAS server. I have setup and tested the plexconnect script and it works. My only issue is that I can't figure out how to get the script to automatically run on startup. I tried using the GUI, but it doesn't seem to work.

To get it to work, I have to open terminal and navigate to the directory:

/usr/local/lib/PlexConnect/

Then run: sudo ./PlexConnect.py

The window has to remain open in order to keep running (which isn't an issue as it's headless). I'd just like to not have to login and start it each time the power goes out, or is rebooted.

I tried editing the crontab file and adding the following variations with no luck:
@reboot python /usr/local/lib/PlexConnect/PlexConnect.py
@reboot /usr/local/lib/PlexConnect/PlexConnect.py

Neither has worked. Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong?

Thanks!

Hi

RHEL 6.4 (64 Bit) is running as a Virutal Machine in a VCenter Server 5.5
As per our request, Vmware team added 500GB of disk space to this VM. Disk is not visible in "fdisk -l" after run the following command/script, but the new disk could be seen from the "multipath -l" command.

for i in `ls -ld /sys/class/scsi_host/host* | awk '{print $9}' `
do
echo "- - -" > $i/scan
done

Could someone clarify why it is not visible in "fdisk -l" output?

My real objective is to clean existing nodes from a Hadoop cluster, claim the space etc. and do a fresh installation of another distro.

Below is the space descr. of one of the master(namenode):

Code:

df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/vg00-root
                      2.0G  739M  1.2G  39% /
tmpfs                  24G     0   24G   0% /dev/shm
/dev/mapper/mpathap1  194M   65M  120M  36% /boot
/dev/mapper/vg00-home
                      248M   12M  224M   5% /home
/dev/mapper/vg00-nsr  248M   11M  226M   5% /nsr
/dev/mapper/vg00-opt  3.1G   79M  2.8G   3% /opt
/dev/mapper/vg00-itm  434M   11M  402M   3% /opt/IBM/ITM
/dev/mapper/vg00-tmp  2.0G   68M  1.9G   4% /tmp
/dev/mapper/vg00-usr  2.0G  1.6G  305M  85% /usr
/dev/mapper/vg00-usr_local
                      248M   11M  226M   5% /usr/local
/dev/mapper/vg00-var  2.0G  820M  1.1G  43% /var
/dev/mapper/vg00-FSImage
                      917G  3.3G  867G   1% /opt/hadoop-FSImage
/dev/mapper/vg00-Zookeeper
                      917G  200M  870G   1% /opt/hadoop-Zookeeper

And one of the slave(datanodes)(the others too have 4-8 local disks and some mounted NFS drives):

Code:

df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/vg00-root
                      2.0G  411M  1.5G  22% /
tmpfs                  36G     0   36G   0% /dev/shm
/dev/mapper/mpathap1  194M   67M  118M  37% /boot
/dev/mapper/vg00-home
                      248M   11M  226M   5% /home
/dev/mapper/vg00-nsr  248M   11M  226M   5% /nsr
/dev/mapper/vg00-opt  3.1G   82M  2.8G   3% /opt
/dev/mapper/vg00-itm  434M   11M  402M   3% /opt/IBM/ITM
/dev/mapper/vg00-tmp  2.0G   68M  1.9G   4% /tmp
/dev/mapper/vg00-usr  2.0G  1.2G  690M  64% /usr
/dev/mapper/vg00-usr_local
                      248M   11M  226M   5% /usr/local
/dev/mapper/vg00-var  2.0G  1.5G  392M  80% /var
/dev/mapper/vg00-00   559G   33M  559G   1% /opt/hadoop-00
/dev/mapper/vg00-01   559G   33M  559G   1% /opt/hadoop-01
/dev/mapper/vg00-02   559G   33M  559G   1% /opt/hadoop-02
/dev/mapper/vg00-03   559G   33M  559G   1% /opt/hadoop-03
/dev/mapper/vg00-04   559G   33M  559G   1% /opt/hadoop-04
/dev/mapper/vg00-05   559G   33M  559G   1% /opt/hadoop-05
/dev/mapper/vg00-06   559G   33M  559G   1% /opt/hadoop-06
/dev/mapper/vg00-07   559G   33M  559G   1% /opt/hadoop-07

During the new installation, I have run into space issues for all the nodes/hosts

Code:

Not enough disk space on host (l1032lab.se.com). A minimum of 1GB is required for "/usr" mount. A minimum of 2GB is required for "/" mount.
Not enough disk space on host (l1033lab.se.com). A minimum of 1GB is required for "/usr" mount. A minimum of 2GB is required for "/" mount.
Not enough disk space on host (l1034lab.se.com). A minimum of 1GB is required for "/usr" mount. A minimum of 2GB is required for "/" mount.
Not enough disk space on host (l1035lab.se.com). A minimum of 1GB is required for "/usr" mount. A minimum of 2GB is required for "/" mount.

Now the installation requires a lot of space under /, /usr, /var and /home mounts which on both master and the slaves is less but there is lots of space in master under these two disks:

Code:

/dev/mapper/vg00-FSImage
                      917G  200M  870G   1% /opt/hadoop-FSImage
/dev/mapper/vg00-Zookeeper
                      917G  6.5G  864G   1% /opt/hadoop-Zookeeper

and on slaves under these 8 disks.

Code:

/dev/mapper/vg00-00   559G   33M  559G   1% /opt/hadoop-00
/dev/mapper/vg00-01   559G   33M  559G   1% /opt/hadoop-01
/dev/mapper/vg00-02   559G   33M  559G   1% /opt/hadoop-02
/dev/mapper/vg00-03   559G   33M  559G   1% /opt/hadoop-03
/dev/mapper/vg00-04   559G   33M  559G   1% /opt/hadoop-04
/dev/mapper/vg00-05   559G   33M  559G   1% /opt/hadoop-05
/dev/mapper/vg00-06   559G   33M  559G   1% /opt/hadoop-06
/dev/mapper/vg00-07   559G   33M  559G   1% /opt/hadoop-07

I'm a bit confused as how to proceed - I was wondering if I can partition one or more of these disks and allocate those under /, /usr etc. and proceed with the installation but then will these disk partitioning and mounting/un-mounting corrupt the existing /, /usr etc. mounts ?

My attempts to back-up to an external hard disk finally met with apparent success but I cannot now mount the target drive.

To summarize:-
1. Installing a SATA hard disk, identical to my computer's main drive, in a USB 2.0 caddy and attaching this to the computer resulted in qualified recognition. 'fdisk' 'saw' both the main drive, as sda, and the USB drive, as sdb, respectively but initially noted that the latter, “... doesn't contain a valid partition table.” This was hardly surprising. At the point of first connection the external drive was essentially a 'bare metal' device, having had its data wiped. Nevertheless, 'fdisk' correctly reported its size, number of heads and cylinders, etc.
2. 'dmesg' also correctly identified the external disk as sdb, reporting its type and the USB port to which it is connected.
3. 'df' ignores the second hard drive, reporting only the main disk.
4. Attempts to clone/back-up the main disk to the external disk using the recommended tools EaseUS Todo back-up and RedoBackup, booting respectively from appropriate USB memory sticks, both failed. Neither utility was prepared to write to the external disk. EaseUS acknowledged the latter but crashed the whole computer when instructed to perform the clone. RedoBackup failed to recognize the external disk.
5. Then came the break-through. A bit more Net browsing led me to try the command 'dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb'. The main disk was bit-copied (cloned) to the external disk at roughly 20Gb per hour, meaning that my 80Gb disk was copied in just under 4 hours. Checking 'dd's resulting report showed what appeared to be a perfect copy.

So far, so good. I now have a back-up which, being identical to the main disk, should, I assume, be bootable. In the event of trouble with the main disk I should be able simply to exchange it for the external disk and carry on from the point at which I made my last back-up. I cannot, however, access and read the external disk. I assume that it must have a partition table and be mounted. The first requirement appears to have been resolved by the cloning operation. 'fdisk' reports no trouble with the partition table on the cloned external disk. It lists /dev/sb1 as the bootable Linux partition, /dev/sdb2 as the Extended partition and /dev/sdb5 as the Linux swap / Solaris partition, exactly mirroring the corresponding entries for the main, sda, drive.

My attempts to mount the external disk have all failed, however. I clearly do not understand the syntax of the mount command or have failed to meet some other requirement. 'mount' objected without hesitation to my early mistakes but “mount -t dev/sdb” was instantly accepted. No error messages or other output resulted and the command prompt was immediately redisplayed but 'mount' then failed to show that the external drive had been mounted. If I try something like 'mount -t /dev/sdb1 /mnt/xdisk', where xdisk is a directory I have been told to create, then I am presented with a prolix description of 'mount's syntax, most of which leaves me bewildered. 'mount' then once again confirms that sdb1 does not feature in the list of mounted devices.

Can someone offer any suggestions? I have read one or two of the other posts on this topic but none of the details match my problem too well and I did not understand some of the replies. If I try to add a line to /etc/fstab, for example, I find that I do not have a directory called 'fstab', only 'fstab.d' and that is empty.

I have roughly one year's experience with Linux Mint 13 which I chose because it so closely resembled Windows XP.

I just cloned a Centos7 "everything install" VM to a physical disk using VMWare Workstation and Clonezilla using the instructions he https://www.howtoforge.com/convertin...cal-machine-p2

Now, when the clone (physical disk) boots up, it drops into the command line with this:

Quote:
dracut-initqueue[417]: Warning: Could not boot.
dracut-initqueue[417]: Warning: /dev/disk/by-uuid/4b8b5627-9027-46f7-b722-61d3ddd28e74 does not exist Starting dracut emergency shell...
What I've tried:
1. I checked /etc/fstab and the proper UUIDs are there, including the one above.
2. Tried booting via USB stick installer into rescue mode, chroot /mnt/sysimage , and:

Quote:
mv /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r)-oh_crud.img
and then
Quote:
dracut /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img $(uname -r)
...but I get this:

Quote:
cat: write error: Broken pipe
When I enter "blkid", I see the HD in question showing up as both /dev/block... and /dev/sdb... I tried "lshw -class disk" but it says "command not found". Finally, the rescue shell says it is mounting my disk in /mnt/sysimage and all my files are where they should be, so it appears it is seeing and mounting the HD.

Any suggestions? I am a n00b, so going off a lot of google and not a lot of understanding here.

hello Experts!
need some help here with python FTP. so what i'm trying to do is, from a linux machine, ill be sending over a python script to a windows machine via python ftp. that works fine with no problem. now, i want to execute that python script i sent remotely. im having trouble with that. here's my code to just execute the script:

p.s : please dont suggest other options such as python paramiko due to many network security reasons

Code:

ftp = ftplib.FTP("windows machine name")
ftp.login("username", "password")
ftp.cwd("where\\python\\script\\is kept\\")

ftp.sendcmd("python myscript.py")

but looks like it doesn't recognize that command. how do i accomplish this please?

Hi All,

I have Redhat5.3 running on my machine. I have 800 GB data mounted on /dev/sdb1 partition. When I reboot my machine and after reboot the data is not available in /data folder. I have already use mount command but its not working.

Can anyone help me how to retrieve those data.

am i right in saying that fstab only describes to the system what partitions should be mounted to what device (location) i know it can do a bit more than that...

but how do you get the system to mount file systems automatically at start up? is that a setting within fstab? under mount options...or is it a command that you need to type...or is it in another config file?

Hello all,

I was working through LFS 7.7 Chp 2.4 and mounted a wrong partition to /mnt/lfs.
I did the following commands while trying to mount the correct LFS partitions:
mount -v -t ext4 /dev/sda8 /mnt/lfs
mount -v -t ext4 /dev/sda9 /mnt/lfs/home
but I was supposed to mount sda11 and sda 12.

Now the system won't boot past the splash screen. I tried booting into a live usb and typed in the following commands
mount -v -t ext4 /dev/sda8 /
mount -v -t ext4 /dev/sda9 /home
but the system still won't boot past the splash screen.
Both gparted and the partition manager for the installer don't show a mount point.

How do I create a mount point from USB or is there another problem/solution?

Thanks