IPCOP is a firewall distro that runs fairly well

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This is from Nick Rout (nick@rout.co.nz) when he ran out of Inodes on /var on his Ipcop? box. Nick is active in CLUG. Added by Criggie? Subject: HELP! How do I make more Inodes Date: 09 Sep 2003 11:53:35 +1200

for the record I did the following:

0. from the backup box scp? the rsync? binary to the ipcop? box, as its not included there by default. must remember to remove it. first i checked which libraries it links to, which looked minimal so I figured it would work on ipcop.

whereis rsync?
ldd /usr/bin/rsync
scp -P 222 /usr/bin/rsync ipcop:/usr/bin/rsync

1. from the backup box, make a temp directory and cd into it, after making sure there was enough room on that partition for the data to be transferred.

2. from the backup machine:

rsync? avz -e "ssh -p 222" ipcop:/var/log/* .

• a = archive (preserves file attributes and recurses thru directories)
  
• v = verbose
  
• z = compress to speed up over the network
  
• e = use ssh instead of rsync to log into ipcop, ipcop runs ssh on port 222
  

and thats a dot (current dir) at the end
wait for rsync to finish.

3. on ipcop

umount /var/log
mke2fs -j -N 65536 /dev/harddisk3
(make a new file system with approx 4 times as many inodes as before)
mount /var/log

4 on backup machine

rsync? -avz -e "ssh -p222" . ipcop:/var/log

wait again

5. check out everything looks right on ipcop? and (for good measure) reboot it.

Luckily having /var/log mounted is not essential for continued running. If i'd had to do this on / I would have needed to use a rescue disk, which would have meant attaching a monitor?, keyboard? etc. As it is I didn't go within 20 feet of the ipcop? box.

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