Most likely the infamous
Most likely the infamous dmsetup bug (#550434) which caused a lot of pain for users
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Thanks for relating that horror story, good to be warned. Here's mine, from last night:I have an AMD64 system with Debian and Ubuntu (and MS Windows Vista), each on a single partition (but different...
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Are you using gnome? Then it was probably due to a conflict between devicekit-disks (a gnome dependency) and dmsetup.
View ArticleYou almost certainly lost
You almost certainly lost those packages during the period in which dmsetup conflicted with devicekit-disks, and GNOME started requiring devicekit-disks. Apt thus removed dmsetup to keep GNOME and...
View Articleit's a maintainer fail
http://bugs.debian.org/545032 perhaps? You'll have to thank a specific fellow DM, who seems to think that adding a conflict on a critical package like dmsetup is an acceptable workaround.
View Articledevicekit-disks
Hm, I don't use GNOME per se (just plain icewm) but I guess I have some GNOME libs installed due to some application dependencies. However, I have no "devicekit-disks" package installed right now, so...
View Articlenearly painless Debian unstable.
firstly a big thanks Uwe! info found in the last couple of years on your blog helped me break away from the influence of the Evil Empire for good.have you ever tried sidux? it's a relatively painless...
View Articleedit of my previous post.
edit of my previous post:sidux is using the 2.26.32 kernel now, which greatly improves hardware support... and no more xorg.config!
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I had shut down Ubuntu while it was doing an fsck on my Debian partition, and this interfered with Debian's own bootup checks and fsck. Odd indeed, linuxes interfereing with one another. Gave me a...
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I booted into Ubuntu and did some updates I rebooted into Debian. Horror: fsck failed on root fs, cannot find superblock, read-only mode. I too could not find the superblock. Nice post!
View ArticleOnly possible in offline mode?
Hello,i was wondering if it is only possible to resize LVM in a cryptocontainer if the filesystem is offline? When i tried to resize it on a running system nothing changes, nor it does after...
View ArticleSame here
Hi, had the same problem with my Debian, so I changed it to Gentoo, lucky me that I made a full back up before the crash and formatting of my hdd.
View ArticleWorks!
Thanks for your documentation. I needed to expand my partition for the same reason: I've dd'ed an old disk to a new disk.Step 1 worked for me on an extended partition. The fdisk's "p" command shows...
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Thanks for the great tutorial, using this to resize a bt4 installation on sdcard with a logical luks rootpartition before a primary /home took a little while but finally worked. Danke Uwe :)
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After a long frustrating evening of trying to figure out why my laptop wouldn't boot after a Debian upgrade, I finally stumbled on this blog post, and soon had the machine running again. Thanks for...
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