IRC log for #ubuntu-us-ut on 20090419

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23:05.31eightyeightundertakingyou: no one wanted your opinion anyway. :)
23:05.39eightyeightducks
23:06.18undertakingyouha!
23:06.21undertakingyou:)
23:06.38undertakingyouWell, at least I now know that you read your emails. :)
23:07.22undertakingyoueightyeight: herlo sent this to me, but you may like to have it too: http://justuff.net/uslessology/application.html
23:09.43eightyeightheh. that's awesome
23:10.08undertakingyouI printed it out so we can have it on file. My wife just roled her eyes.
23:12.38eightyeightmy wife: "what's T & A mean?" :)
23:13.58eightyeight~lart undertakingyou and Heartsbane for top posting
23:13.58infobotreadies the nuke launcher and fires some rounds at undertakingyou and Heartsbane for top posting
23:15.46undertakingyoueightyeight: Top posting is natural and normal.
23:15.53undertakingyouEmbrace it and your life will be better.
23:16.04undertakingyouhates bottom posting.
23:17.22herloew, I smell a war
23:17.42undertakingyouNo, I am at peace with those around me.
23:18.02undertakingyouI know that eightyeight's opinion and my own can co-exist in peace and harmony.
23:18.21undertakingyoualso points out that war does not smell. Death does, but not war.
23:18.57herloI bet...
23:18.58eightyeightthe opposite of war isn't peace, it's creation
23:19.37eightyeightundertakingyou: are you on the sllug list? i know Heartsbane is
23:21.01undertakingyouYeah, but it auto archives so I don't read it much.
23:21.02undertakingyouWhy?
23:21.59eightyeighthttp://www.sllug.org/pipermail/sllug-members/2009-March/011365.html
23:23.09undertakingyouahh . . .
23:23.42undertakingyouI just hate having to sift through a bunch of quoted crap, some of which is ads for their email service and cute quotes, just to read the newest post.
23:23.57undertakingyouI can already see most of the conversation if I need to in the other emails.
23:24.16eightyeightthe answer is trimming
23:25.45undertakingyouI thought I did that. I trim out all the work of sifting through that by top-posting ;)
23:26.06eightyeightheh
23:28.10undertakingyouI think the most convincing part is that there is an rfc that addresses it.
23:28.37undertakingyouWhich says to summarize what you need to at the top and then add new information at the bottom.
23:29.28eightyeightthere are appropriate times for top-posting, such as forwarding an email to an unexpecting recipient. summarize what is contained beneath, so they know what to expect
23:29.42eightyeightbut, for threads, there just isn't a convincing reason to top post
23:30.24undertakingyouIn mutt, <shift>o is just easy to type and then you can go on with your message.
23:30.29Zelutany trick to shrinking ext4 these days?
23:30.35undertakingyouLess key strokes that gg and then o.
23:30.38eightyeighthowever, in corporate environments where outlook is king, bottom posting just out of principle in a world where everyone top posts is paddling too much up stream
23:30.48herloZelut: I would guess resize2fs would/should support ext4 ??
23:31.32eightyeightZelut: i think the whole suite of ext2/3 tools also support ext4. after all, ext4 is just ext3 with extents and btree lookup
23:31.39eightyeightamong other things
23:32.13Zelutso what is the proper syntax to shrink a 72G to 50G? What I'm trying isn't doing, so I was assuming it was an ext4 limitation
23:33.34herloZelut: have you not used resize2fs before?
23:33.45undertakingyouoh herlo that was cold
23:33.50herloundertakingyou: why?
23:34.05herloif he has, and it's not working, then it probably doesn't support it
23:34.08Zelutherlo: i've used it. just losing some things as i'm not teaching it so regularly.
23:34.42herloundertakingyou: in addition, there was a program called ext2online which used to do the resizing, resize2fs is fairly new
23:35.00Zelutresize2fs /dev/FOO 50G ..?
23:35.53eightyeight~man resize2fs
23:35.54infobotNo manual entry for resize2fs
23:35.58herlowell, you have to do a fsc first methinks...
23:36.04eightyeightnot a very smart infobot
23:36.05herloif you are resizing down and
23:36.09herloit can't be online
23:36.28eightyeightno. resizing must be done offline, and an e2fsck -f must be first
23:36.34Zelutthis is in combination with LVM. extending is easy. shrinking has to be done offline or ro..
23:36.48herloright
23:36.55Zeluteightyeight: extending can be done online, shrinking offline or ro.
23:37.11herloso /me assumes you've got the device unmounted
23:37.21herloZelut: I don't agree with the 'or ro' part of your statement
23:37.31herloro doesn't let you resize down on a filesystem
23:37.49herlobecause it's read-only thus it can't be modified
23:37.50Zelutherlo: i seem to remember the RHEL class mentioning ro as an option while shrinking.
23:38.24herloZelut: maybe, but there are two many variables here that RHEL hasn't considered
23:38.25Zelutherlo: because a fsck needs to be done and we can't go adding files while we're dealing with that..
23:38.28herloone is a new FS
23:38.39herloanother is how ro reacts to the new FS
23:38.50Zelutherlo: of course the RHEL stuff doesn't include ext4, so that may be unrelated in this situation.
23:39.05herloZelut: I argue that taking it offline is the *best* choice
23:39.08herlothat's all I am saying
23:39.23herloresize2fs [ -fFpPM ] [ -d debug-flags ] [ -S RAID-stride ] device [ size ]
23:39.29Zelutin any case, i rebooted to single user and did not mount /. i tried to shrink the fs prior to lvreduce. no joy.
23:39.40herloresize2fs /dev/Blah 1G
23:39.54herloyou have to shring the fs first with that ^^
23:40.04herlothen lvreduce, then vgreduce (if needed)
23:40.17herloit's bottom up to extend, top down to reduce
23:40.21Zelutright
23:40.31herloso resize2fs didn't work?
23:40.35Zelutlet me try that again. i'll note the error i get and come back..
23:40.39herlok
23:41.09eightyeightZelut: i always thought of it this way with repect to lvm:
23:41.29eightyeightlvm is a container with your filesystem inside. if you want more filesystem, you need to make the container bigger
23:41.41eightyeightif you want a smaller container, you better remove some filesystem first
23:41.46eightyeightlike water in a bucket
23:42.25undertakingyouoh, nice analogy!
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23:45.17Heartsbaneeightyeight == waterboy
23:46.38eightyeightthat's fine. didn't bobby bouchet beat the livin' crap out of everyone that pissed him off?
23:46.53HeartsbaneHAHAHA
23:47.26HeartsbaneNow you are getting it
23:47.27undertakingyouI am waiting for him to fly through the air and beat you.
23:47.28Heartsbanehahaha
23:47.50eightyeight~beat Heartsbane
23:47.51infobotACTION relentlessly beats Heartsbane over the head with a Louisville Slugger
23:47.57eightyeightthat'll work
23:50.34Zeluti got it to work.
23:50.56Zelutturns out i wasn't paying attention well enough in my previous attempt (must have been distracted by a kid)
23:51.46herloheh, yeah that can happen
23:51.56herlois usually drunk when he makes mistakes like that :)
23:52.31Heartsbaneor atleast that is what you tell everyone
23:53.25herloHeartsbane: no, that's what you tell everyone :)
23:53.50eightyeight~drink herlo
23:53.51infobotdrinks herlo in one swig, turns blue, green, and ultraviolet, and then vomits herlo across the room
23:54.07herlowow! what a trip!
23:54.26eightyeightdrinking does that to you? i thought that was weed man
23:55.35Zelutherlo: i remember a time you tried to LVM while drunk. that was... successful.
23:55.43herlonot
23:55.55herlonow points to the reference he made about configs and drinking
23:55.56herlo:)
23:57.34Zelutso i got the resize to work, what still stumped me though is removing those 20G all the way down to the pv level.
23:57.44Zeluti think i should try this after the baby is asleep this is not going to wokr.
23:58.11eightyeightZelut: are you taking out a drive?
23:58.21eightyeightif so, pvmove should be first, before anything else
23:58.32Zeluteightyeight: no. all one drive, just want to allocate 20G to bare-bones for use with XP (i know, i know)
23:59.55eightyeightahh. then pv doesn't matter really. let lvm worry about that

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