I occasionally come across a situation where I am trying to unmount a device (umount /mnt/harddrive ) for whatever reason and it refuses to unmount because it claims to be in use: umount: /path: device is busy. Usually this is after I think I’m sure that no programs are using the device or that no files…
Continue reading →The usual linux tool (fdisk) used for creating partitions don’t let you create one greater than 2Tb. This is a problem with today’s large drives. To create a partition larger than 2Tb we need to use gparted. Make sure youknow the device you want to be messing about with before you run these commands. fdisk -l …
Continue reading →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 →Last year I went through a nice phase of drinking cold brew coffee. Partly kicked off by reading …Cory Doctorow’s book Homeland, which is superb. In the book, the main character likes his cold brew and that made me grind up some of my own coffee and pop it in a 2 litre bottle with…
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/…
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