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    • jhansenJ
      jhansen @olivierlambert
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      @olivierlambert
      Thanks for help by the way ๐Ÿ˜Š

      I'am shure that it is a new installation from 3 month ago, it is a new Server and I bought it 3 month ago.

      regards Joerg

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      • jhansenJ
        jhansen @olivierlambert
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        @olivierlambert
        Sorry I miss one line:
        โ””โ”€sda1 8:1 0 3.5G 0 part /

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        • olivierlambertO
          olivierlambert Vates ๐Ÿช Co-Founder๐Ÿฆธ CEO ๐Ÿง‘โ€๐Ÿ’ผ
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          You should have 2x 18G partitions (/ and a backup one), 1x 4G partition (/var/log) and a 512MB partition (/boot)

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          • jhansenJ
            jhansen @olivierlambert
            last edited by

            @olivierlambert
            My
            Boot has 537MB
            / has 3757MB
            Backup 4294MB

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            • olivierlambertO
              olivierlambert Vates ๐Ÿช Co-Founder๐Ÿฆธ CEO ๐Ÿง‘โ€๐Ÿ’ผ
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              Okay so this is the old partition scheme. Can you repeat exactly what did you do with this machine? I mean initially. I don't know how to even get the old partition scheme in the first place with XCP-ng (there's 0 edition of XCP-ng with this old partition scheme, it's only before XenServer 6.5)

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              • jhansenJ
                jhansen @olivierlambert
                last edited by

                @olivierlambert
                I disable all hard drives and put in a new sda and do a fresh installation.
                So I can always go back if something doesn't work out.
                In any case, thanks for the help.
                Regards Joerg

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                • olivierlambertO
                  olivierlambert Vates ๐Ÿช Co-Founder๐Ÿฆธ CEO ๐Ÿง‘โ€๐Ÿ’ผ
                  last edited by

                  That's really weird, I don't understand how it's possible to install a fresh XCP-ng (without doing any upgrade) with the old partition layout ๐Ÿค”

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                  • jhansenJ
                    jhansen @olivierlambert
                    last edited by

                    @olivierlambert
                    Neither do I.
                    I thought I might have taken an old SSD, but that wasn't the case, the part was new.
                    Well, sometimes you lose and sometimes the others win.
                    Fresh installation ๐Ÿ˜ง
                    But thanks anyway

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                    • olivierlambertO
                      olivierlambert Vates ๐Ÿช Co-Founder๐Ÿฆธ CEO ๐Ÿง‘โ€๐Ÿ’ผ
                      last edited by

                      Adding @yann in the conversation, so we need to check if it's even possible the old layout could be created in the installer code.

                      Did you use the regular installation or something else? (answer file, automated install etc.)

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                      • tjkreidlT
                        tjkreidl Ambassador ๐Ÿ“ฃ @jhansen
                        last edited by tjkreidl

                        @jhansen I'd suggest booting off some Linux rescue disk and just redoing all the partitions manually. I ran into an upgrade issue once on a Dell box because of some stupid little extra utility partition they had in there. See: http://xenserver.pl/author/tobias-kreidl
                        Look for "The (In)famous Dell Utility Partition."

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                        • jhansenJ
                          jhansen @olivierlambert
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                          @olivierlambert
                          Unfortunately, I only keep the latest version of the iso files. I have the xcp-ng-8.2.1.iso here and I think that was it, but it could also have been the previous version.

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                          • tjkreidlT
                            tjkreidl Ambassador ๐Ÿ“ฃ @jhansen
                            last edited by

                            @jhansen Any old Linux distribution recovery-like boot disk should work, as long as you can get to the partitioning app.

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                            • jhansenJ
                              jhansen @tjkreidl
                              last edited by

                              @tjkreidl
                              Mayby you are on the right trace.
                              It is a Dell Server.
                              This time i will wipe the disk before installation.
                              As the Data is on other disk i will try to mount then afterwards.
                              Thanks

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                              • jhansenJ
                                jhansen @tjkreidl
                                last edited by

                                @tjkreidl
                                Do you think a simple reseize of the different partition will do it?

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                                • tjkreidlT
                                  tjkreidl Ambassador ๐Ÿ“ฃ @jhansen
                                  last edited by tjkreidl

                                  @jhansen said in XCP-ng 8.3 public alpha ๐Ÿš€:

                                  @tjkreidl
                                  Mayby you are on the right trace.
                                  It is a Dell Server.
                                  This time i will wipe the disk before installation.
                                  As the Data is on other disk i will try to mount then afterwards.
                                  Thanks

                                  I am willing to bet you got bitten by the Dell utility partition disk issue. And, yes, best to wipe it out. Or delete it and redo one of the other partitions. But frankly, you will really want the new 36.5 GB total layout with the dual 18GB partitions, etc., that was mentioned above. You will want the right order of partitions to match what the XCP-ng installation wants to do at some point, but it should redo the layout I hope once you get rid of that extra Dell partition. Check out what I did in my article referenced above:
                                  "The solution was simply to delete that sda1 partition altogether using fdisk and re-install. Deleting the partition can be performed live on the host prior to the installation process."

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                                  • jhansenJ
                                    jhansen @tjkreidl
                                    last edited by

                                    @tjkreidl
                                    Naturally partition and filesystem.

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                                    • jhansenJ
                                      jhansen @tjkreidl
                                      last edited by

                                      @tjkreidl
                                      Just got an idea, but will it work?
                                      wipe disk
                                      Fresh installation
                                      Restore Metadata from XO Backup
                                      Will that work?

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                                      • tjkreidlT
                                        tjkreidl Ambassador ๐Ÿ“ฃ @jhansen
                                        last edited by

                                        @jhansen If you have the full metadata, I would think that's possible. What about any VM backups, custom network settings, etc.? Lots to make sure you have before anything that drastic.

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                                        • jhansenJ
                                          jhansen @tjkreidl
                                          last edited by

                                          @tjkreidl
                                          Although it's my test lab, I have a backup of everything. I'm something of a burned child with many years of bad experience.
                                          Unfortunately it would take a few days to play everything back.
                                          But I'll get a new SSD and give it a try.
                                          But first thanks for the help, I'll write if it worked.
                                          Regards Joerg

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                                          • gskgerG
                                            gskger Top contributor ๐Ÿ’ช @stormi
                                            last edited by

                                            @stormi Finally updated my two host playlab from 8.2.0 fully patched to 8.3.0-alpha2 using the ISO method followed by installing available patches using XO from source.

                                            As boring as it is, I have nothing to report other than that the update of my low-tech hosts has worked (Dell Optiplex 9010, Intel i5-3550 CPU, 32GB RAM, Intel S3700 100GB SSD for boot, Samsung 860 EVO 500GB SSD for local SR, Intel X520-DA1 10G). You wouldn't believe it, but sometimes boring is good ๐Ÿ˜€ .

                                            I'll report back if anything comes up in day-to-day operations ๐Ÿ‘‹ .

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