A silhouette appeared ad my door one day. “Can you please increase the size of the root partition on my VMWare VM? I assigned you a ticket. K, tnx, baiiiii!”, and they were gone the next moment. No chit-chat, no banter. Just a textbook blurt and run. I guess they were in a hurry, huh? … More Extending a partition, live
It happened. Admit it 🙂 You started a task on a server and now it’s 5 to 5pm (16:55 in military talk) and the task is only about half way through. And the little voice in your head goes: “Why, oh, why haven’t I started it in a screen instance?” Well, settle in and keep … More Live process transplant to screen with reptyr
A description is in the works. Here’s the bash script to look at while you wait.
A while ago I spent a fun time with my LVMs on 2 of our 3 Gluster FS servers. I have since resolved the problem, so I do not have al the fancy commandline output to provide. Sorry. Abbreviations used: LVM: Logical Volume Management PV: Physical Volume VG: Volume Group LV: Logical Volume Back to … More LVM (Look, Very Messed-up)
list all enabled repositories: me@localhost:~$ yum repolist list packages from a single repository: me@localhost:~$ yum –disablerepo=”*” –enablerepo=”my-repo” list available No worries, more will be added in time.
“There are some files that need to be moved from server-A to server-B. Can you do it, please?”, I was asked one day. “Sure, no problem.”, I replied with confidence. Root is good. No sudo restrictions, everything just works right away. It can do wonders, just like a stick of dynamite. So don’t blow it … More scp -3 around that pesky firewall
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