[wellylug] Power flip affected servers

[John Durham]

Spiro Harvey wrote:
>> There are 4 guided options and a manual one. Some of them offer
>> 'resize the partition', use the entire disk and set up LVM, the
>> encrypted version of the above and manual.
>> Which of these is most likely to work without destroying my server?
> 
> None of those is correct. You need a command line. 
> 
> The server is CentOS, you said? do you have a CentOS boot CD lying
> around? That will get you to an appropriate command line...
> 
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Actually, the Centos one seems to be working. You could check that by 
using you browser to go to http://modecideas.com
If you see the site, it's OK. The problem is on the Ubuntu server. If I 
make the wrong choice here it could be wiped. It is one I depend on for 
daily news reports.

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