If you’re remotely managing a Linux machine, you’ll probably use an SSH connection to run commands on that machine. There’s one problem with this approach: if you close the SSH connection, any long-running jobs/commands will halt. If you know a job will take a long time and you won’t be able to babysit the SSH connection, you can plan accordingly. But what if you underestimated the time a job will take, and you need to disconnect anyway? Here’s how to keep the job running AND make it home in time for dinner!
Red Hat
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While upgrading OneFS it’s important to keep the InsightIQ software version compatible with the Isilon systems. In this case, InsightIQ wasn’t updated for a while and I had to upgrade from 3.0 -> 3.1 -> 3.2 -> 4.x. The actual upgrade process isn’t too hard (it just takes a lot of time), but there’s one little prerequisite in the 3.1 -> 3.2 upgrade: a minimum free space in the root partition of 502MB. As you can see in the screenshot, I wasn’t even close to the minimum requirement. I got to 357 MB, and that’s after cleaning up redundant stuff. Time to add some more disk space and extend root partition!