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You will find links to Perl,
bootdisks for system administration,
a lot of Linux,
Windows administration
and some personal belongings.
Problems and Solutions with Debian
Create a vserver in a virtual disk
The vserver lives in one filesystem which is in a reality not a usual fs
on your harddisk but one large file which is mounted like a partition.
Pro:
you can stop the server, copy the whole file on the filesystem itself
and start the server again
minimum downtime to backup
easy to recover on different machine
easy to backup on cdrom if filesize is not too large
Con:
your kernel must be able to deal with loopback devices
Create the disk and format it
Create the empty file and put an ext3fs filesystem onto it. Use /dev/zero,
not /dev/null
/data/vdisks# mke2fs lilliput mke2fs 1.27 (8-Mar-2002) lilliput is not a block special device. Proceed anyway? (y,n) y ...
/data/vdisks# tune2fs -j lilliput tune2fs 1.27 (8-Mar-2002) Creating journal inode: done This filesystem will be automatically checked every 28 mounts or 180 days, whichever comes first. Use tune2fs -c or -i to override.
Mount it
/data/vdisks# mkdir /data/vservers/lilliput /data/vdisks# mount -t ext3 /data/vdisks/lilliput /data/vservers/lilliput mount: /data/vdisks/lilliput is not a block device (maybe try `-o loop'?)
/data/vservers# mount -o loop -t ext3 /data/vdisks/lilliput \ /data/vservers/lilliput
/data/vservers# mount ... /data/vdisks/lilliput on /data/vservers/lilliput type ext3 (rw,loop=/dev/loop0) /data/vservers# umount /data/vdisks/lilliput
If this works you can mount it automatically on startup of your system:
lilliput:/data/vservers# mount /data/vdisks/lilliput lilliput:/data/vservers# mount ... /data/vdisks/lilliput on /data/vservers/lilliput type ext3 (rw,loop=/dev/loop0)