can a Xen disk image be converted to a diskpartition?
Someone is asking whether I can host his disk image at his current host, which he is leaving for poor I/O (wonder why that would be ). I can host a diskimage, but I don't like diskimages (slow, and 100GB isn't very 'comfortable' either). Is there any way out there to convert a disk image into a normal partition?
I use apache with CentOS VPS hosting for my blog. I only host one blog in this VPS account. I have 1.5GB RAM and I have 7, 500 page preview per day. My page loading time is 2-3 seconds (according to the pingdom tool).
I want to know what is the best performance (faster web page loading) W3 Total cache option for VPS hosting blog. Currently I use Disk to enhance for page cache and database cache for disk.
I've got a server in a local colo facility. both the facility and my server are slowly falling apart. Rather than investing in hardware and then shipping it to some location and hoping it doesn't break, I've decided to investigate VPS.
What I am finding is puzzling me. Why do providers charge so much for disk space? My current old p3-733 has a 30gb drive, I could deal with about 15gb but with some 'flex' room (i.e. a virtual drive for uncompressing files or some such). It's a personal server for me and a couple of friends, it doesn't get much traffic, I don't need a heck of a lot of bandwidth, nor anything flashy, just Ubuntu 8.04. I see places offering plenty of traffic for a decent price, yet little in the way of storage. I just don't get it.
A year ago I was here wanting to trade my class C for a dedicated server. I realize now that it would be pretty difficult for providers to do this, because if I wanted to yank my class c they'd have to renumber. But if anyone is still interested, let me know.
I've decided I want cPanel installed on my iWeb dedicated box. They informed me it will require a reinstall. Before they do this I wanted to image the disk and download the image to my PC. Is this possible to do via SSH? I'd prefer an open-source free solution.
I have a site with a lot of data (almost 20-30gigs). I want to pkgacct the site to transfer to another server but the harddisk gets full and the pkgacct stops working.
Which files and folders can I delete on the server without touching critical CPanel files? I want to delete as many as folders so that I can have enough space for the packaging process.
fdisk /dev/amrd1 ******* Working on device /dev/amrd1 ******* parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinders=2213 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl)
Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1 parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: cylinders=2213 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl)
fdisk: invalid fdisk partition table found Media sector size is 512 Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1 Information from DOS bootblock is: The data for partition 1 is: sysid 165 (0xa5),(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) start 63, size 35551782 (17359 Meg), flag 80 (active) beg: cyl 0/ head 1/ sector 1; end: cyl 164/ head 254/ sector 63 The data for partition 2 is: <UNUSED> The data for partition 3 is: <UNUSED> The data for partition 4 is: <UNUSED>
I get write errors when i use sysinstall. As for the raid status. Its fine.
One of the things people seem to bring up a lot is disk IO Performance.
Why? Because theres little you can do about a customer being stupid and creating a disk swap nightmare.
There is however something you can do to reduce the impact across your clients, Have a separate raid array for swap space.
This does 2 things, it splits some of the Disk IO across 2 arrays, but more important it reduces the affect someone overusing there swap will have on the ones that are not.
One of our server is very slow and cpu and memory usag is fine. Also, there isn't any problem on network, I thought the problem with disk and I got the following iostat result. Is it normal?
# iostat Linux 2.4.21-37.0.1.EL (domain.com) 08/20/2007
I wonder why the USA used to give to the servers, only one disk? from my experience with the most disk malfunction occurs and the immediate unavailability of the server (and, if sufficiently intensive and does not lose data). Or is a solution which I have noticed, and they use it?
The root filesystem is only using 917 GB while the size is 967 GB. Where has the 50 GB gone to? CentOS tells me that the diskspace is indeed full already, so I wonder where is the disappearing space?
I got a new server from Nocster today with a 80GB drive. Went to look at my fee disk space and I notice the largest partition is only 48GB... yuck. Then I noticed the way they partitioned the drive:
This is definately something I'm not used to. Putting all these things on seperate partitions like that is really going to make it difficult for me to utilize all my disk space. On every other server I've had, all the free space was under / with partitions just for /boot and /dev/shm. Is there anyway to fix this without reinstalling the OS?
