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    Wayne Workman
    last edited by Oct 9, 2015, 4:00 PM

    And obviously add the new location to your Storage Management area as a new master node (in it’s own group as well)

    And I agree with @ITSolutions , it’s probably a very bad idea to try to use NTFS. I’d recommend Ext4 as he did.

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      Jordonlovik @Wayne Workman
      last edited by Oct 9, 2015, 4:58 PM

      @Wayne-Workman Ok so i think i followed you up untill the last part

      @Wayne-Workman said:

      After the new drive is formated and mounted and you can SEE it in the linux system,

      open the CLI, go to the new image directory (wherever you mounted it)

      create a .mntcheck file there, then create the dev folder and a .mntcheck file in there.

      touch .mntcheck;mkdir dev;touch dev/.mntcheck
      

      The new directory needs 777 permissions assigned to it recursively as well (you may change this later after it’s working)

      I’m keeping my instructions and commands here generic so that this can help others.

      chmod -R 777 /the/path/to/your/new/hdd/mount/goes/here
      

      Then you need to add the new images and new dev folders to the exports file:

      vi /etc/exports
      

      You’ll see the two lines in there already for your old local storage node. They will have IDs, and in 1.2.0 they start at 1.
      Copy those two lines, change the IDs to 3 and 4. Modify the paths so they are correct.

      Then either reboot or restart NFS and RCP.

      Could you expound on what the last step does?

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        Wayne Workman @Jordonlovik
        last edited by Wayne Workman Oct 9, 2015, 11:03 AM Oct 9, 2015, 5:01 PM

        @Jordonlovik

        It’s not temp.mntcheck it’s just .mntcheck

        (Files that begin with a period in Linux are hidden, you can see hidden files with ls -la)

        for the /etc/exports stuff, look at this: https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php/Troubleshoot_NFS Look at the NFS Settings area in that article.

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          Jordonlovik @Wayne Workman
          last edited by Oct 9, 2015, 5:34 PM

          @Wayne-Workman So essentially I am editing the old original .mntcheck files copying their contents, editing them to reflect my new location, changing the 1 to 3 and the 2 to a 4 and then saving that data over my new .mntcheck files in the new location under /media/administrator/Fogdrive. Do I have that correct?

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            Wayne Workman @Jordonlovik
            last edited by Oct 9, 2015, 5:53 PM

            @Jordonlovik said:

            Do I have that correct?

            Not really no. Sorry.

            the .mntcheck files are empty. They are blank. When NFS mounting occurs on the client, it then verifies that mounting was done correctly and is working. It does this by checking for a file called .mntcheck The clients do not look inside the file, they merely look to see if the file exists. Hence “mnt check”

            the /etc/exports file defines what directories are exported. think of this as sharing. In that file, you should have two lines that describe your existing local storage node. Just copy those lines and past them at the end of the file, and change those two pasted lines to describe the new exported directories (wherever you mounted your hdd to). You’ll need to update their IDs. You cannot have duplicate IDs in this file. Then you save your changes, and then reboot.

            Does this make sense?

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              Jordonlovik
              last edited by Oct 9, 2015, 6:41 PM

              @Wayne-Workman yes it does thank you. all i have to do is add two new lines with new IDs that correspond with the new node location.

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                Wayne Workman @Jordonlovik
                last edited by Oct 9, 2015, 6:42 PM

                @Jordonlovik said:

                all i have to do is add two new lines with new IDs that correspond with the new node location.

                Correct.

                Plus the .mntcheck files and dev folder, and the matching stuff in the web interface afterwards.

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                  Jordonlovik
                  last edited by Oct 9, 2015, 7:54 PM

                  @Wayne-Workman Is there any other way to edit the .mntcheck file? the vi editor is really giving me trouble through my remote session.

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                    Wayne Workman @Jordonlovik
                    last edited by Oct 9, 2015, 7:59 PM

                    @Jordonlovik

                    You don’t edit the .mntcheck file. It’s supposed to be a blank file.

                    You simply create it with touch .mntcheck and that’s it, you are done.

                    http://www.linfo.org/touch.html

                    The touch Command
                    The touch command is the easiest way to create new, empty files.

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                      Jordonlovik @Wayne Workman
                      last edited by Oct 9, 2015, 9:04 PM

                      @Wayne-Workman Sorry im saying that wrong i am actually modifying the /etc/exports file! I don’t know how or why i was thinking .mntcheck still. It looks like i may have F’ed my server over anyways. This is my first run at Linux and its been a bumpy one. I was not able to edit the /etc/Exports file because it was owned by root. So i ran the 777 permissions command not knowing the consequences. now i am getting the Sudoers is world writable error. I wish i had realize my install partitioned so idiotic by default. i have plenty of storage space its just not in the root directory where it needs to be.

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                        Wayne Workman @Jordonlovik
                        last edited by Oct 9, 2015, 9:37 PM

                        @Jordonlovik I apologize, I should have realized. You do need “super user” permission when editing /etc/exports.

                        you can either A. change to super user for the duration of your session like sudo su or B. execute only one command with sudo like sudo vi /etc/exports

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                          sudburr @Wayne Workman
                          last edited by Oct 10, 2015, 12:24 AM

                          @Wayne-Workman said:

                          And I agree with @ITSolutions , it’s probably a very bad idea to try to use NTFS. I’d recommend Ext4 as he did.

                          Poking my nose into this little 'ism. The NTFS formatted image drives, physical and virtual, that I’ve been using for over a year disagree. 😉

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                            Tom Elliott
                            last edited by Tom Elliott Oct 9, 2015, 9:06 PM Oct 10, 2015, 3:05 AM

                            Maybe I’m seeing the wrong thing.

                            The DefaultMember is IP address 10.1.1.201, but the new node (which I imagine is on the same server?) is set to IP 10.1.1.102

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                              Jordonlovik @Tom Elliott
                              last edited by Oct 10, 2015, 6:41 PM

                              @Tom-Elliott said:

                              10.1.1.201, but the new node (which I imagine is on the same s

                              I noticed this myself. I changed that and am sill experiencing the same error.

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                                Jordonlovik
                                last edited by Oct 10, 2015, 6:45 PM

                                At this point I am strongly considering a full reinstall of the server. Although it was labor intensive. I was just starting to experience the wonder of FOG imaging too. and I love it.

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                                  Wayne Workman @Jordonlovik
                                  last edited by Oct 10, 2015, 6:46 PM

                                  @Jordonlovik said:

                                  At this point I am strongly considering a full reinstall of the server. Although it was labor intensive. I was just starting to experience the wonder of FOG imaging too. and I love it.

                                  I’d recommend CentOS or Fedora. These instructions basically work for both: https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php/Fedora_21_Server

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                                    Jordonlovik @Wayne Workman
                                    last edited by Oct 10, 2015, 6:52 PM

                                    @Wayne-Workman You don’t prefer Kubuntu for FOG setups?

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                                      Wayne Workman @Jordonlovik
                                      last edited by Wayne Workman Oct 10, 2015, 1:34 PM Oct 10, 2015, 7:16 PM

                                      @Jordonlovik I don’t prefer things that aren’t Red Hat based. I’m studying for my RHCSA and RHCE, and if an employer wanted to use Linux, they generally choose RHEL for the support that Red Hat offers.

                                      If you’d like to create a tutorial for Kubuntu, please go ahead and post it in the tutorials area for everyone. And obviously we try our best to help people use whatever distro of Linux they want. @Tom-Elliott is really the guy who makes it work on just about everything.

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                                        need2 Moderator
                                        last edited by need2 Oct 12, 2015, 10:43 AM Oct 12, 2015, 4:43 PM

                                        And if you want to use the Debian family (Debian, Ubuntu, anything ending in “buntu”), then just get plain, vanilla, not messed with and works just fine Debian.

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                                          Jordonlovik
                                          last edited by Oct 12, 2015, 8:51 PM

                                          @need2

                                          Thanks. I began reinstalled using Fedora 22 server 64bit. hope to have FOG back up and running soon.

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