RHEL4 – 2.6.9-55 TO UPDATE 8 [closed]

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LVM issues when adding a newly-carved LUN from a Clariion – pvcreate fails

This seems to be a semi-common issue asked, but I have not yet found a good solution. I try the following: [root@localhost ~]# pvcreate /dev/sdc Can’t open /dev/sdc exclusively. Mounted filesystem? This forum post shows the user’s solution to have been to boot off a different image, modify his LVM groups, and then restart normally. … Read more

Output of ‘ls’ changes every time it runs in CIFS mounted windows share – RHEL 4

I have a RHEL 4 server in our organisation. One windows (2003) share is mounted on the server using CIFS. Output mount shows something like this: //windows.server.fqdn/share on /mnt/shared1 type cifs (rw,mand) /etc/fstab shows: //windows.server.fqdn/share /mnt/shared1 cifs auto,uid=500,gid=500,username=windows_username,password=windows_password 0 0 Now in this shared1 folder, if I run ‘ls’, the output is different each time: … Read more

Cloning old RHEL 4.3 on Dell Poweredge 2850 to PE2950 with SAS PERC6i

I have a Dell PowerEdge 2850 with a PERC 4 controller and SCSI drives. I need to clone that to a PE2950 with a PERC6i with SAS drives. I’ve used the DKMS package along with the latest driver on Dells website to create a driver disk and successfully installed by hand so I know that … Read more