I wanted to give a quick shout out to Spinrite. Great product created by Steve Gibson. I’ve used it to analyse drives when they start showing signs of wear. It’ll detect when your drive doesn’t have much life left in it. You can also usually use it to recover data from your drive if it…
Continue reading →You can easily do this with the following commands: du -sh */ Or this one will also show you hidden folders: du -h –max-depth=1 . – you can always increase the depth in the command above to see further into the dir structure.
Continue reading →My wife phoned me at work today to tell me that the computer was on fire! Luckily she was working at home for the day or goodness knows what could have happened. She smartly just disconnected the power supply at the wall and left it alone. It turns out that it was the connector between…
Continue reading →Your /etc/fstab file holds all the mount info for your linux installation. e.g. where to mount local drives, how to mount network drives, … I have a few NFS mounts defined in my fstab file. Sometimes the other device is not on when my Linux box boots and so the mount is not executed. When…
Continue reading →Since I’ve started using WordPress for my blog, I notice that almost every post results in spam comments from random bots. Usually just gibberish but they can also be offering to sell some male enhancement supplements or asking for help to move thousands of £££s out of Nigeria. Hmm, maybe I should have a look…
Continue reading →NFS is probably the simplest file sharing solution for non-Windows systems – it is great for Linux to Linux shares. You can find some workarounds or third party apps which will let you mount NFS shares in Windows too but I’ll be using SAMBA for Windows shares (search this blog or look in for the…
Continue reading →Continuation of the installation and configuration guide for Ubuntu on the Thecus N5200 NAS. Initial post here Original location where I first posted it in 2011 here: http://thecususergroup.proboards.com/thread/4226+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+Last installment…I have already shown you how to set up your server with what I consider essential services. The following a brief guides to other services I installed because…
Continue reading →Continuation of the installation and configuration guide for Ubuntu on the Thecus N5200 NAS. Initial post here Original location where I first posted it in 2011 here: http://thecususergroup.proboards.com/thread/4226+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+Now that we have Ubuntu and our RAID set up we’ll do the long bit …#===== INSTALL SERVICES/PACKAGES =====#Feel free to skip any of these services/packages. They are just…
Continue reading →Continuation of the installation and configuration guide for Ubuntu on the Thecus N5200 NAS. Initial post here Original location where I first posted it in 2011 here: http://thecususergroup.proboards.com/thread/4226+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+ We have already set up our hardware and installed Ubuntu, next… #===== RAID CONFIG =====# # HOW TO CREATE A NEW RAID # Useful links: help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/SoftwareRAID www.linuxhomenetworking.com/wiki/index.php/Quick_HOWTO_:_Ch26_:_Linux_Software_RAID sysadmingeek.com/articles/how-to-setup-software-raid-for-a-simple-file-server-on-ubuntu/…
Continue reading →Continuation of the installation and configuration guide for Ubuntu on the Thecus N5200 NAS. Initial post here Original location where I first posted it in 2011 here: http://thecususergroup.proboards.com/thread/4226+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+Following on from my first post…#===== UBUNTU INSTALLATION =====#Useful links:mixeduperic.com/linux/how-to-install-ubuntu-server-part-1.html User security: www.devarticles.com/c/a/JavaScript/Building-a-Secure-Web-Server/2/ Download Ubuntu 10.04 LTS ISO. 32-bit. Make bootable USB, I’m not going to describe this here. Just follow this…
Continue reading →As promised in this post where I have described setting up my newer NAS and its LVM filesystem, here is a previous set of posts from a few years ago focused on adapting a Thecus N5200 NAS by getting rid of the existing Thecus firmware and installing a vanilla Ubuntu OS and setting up a RAID…
Continue reading →I have now moved to a new WordPress set up hosted by NearlyFreeSpeech. All posts before this point were originally from my Blogger hosted site and so may look a bit mis-formatted. I’ve tried to fix anything obvious but feel free to leave a comment if you see anything that needs updated. I’ve only been…
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