Since most System Administrators do not want to do the formulae by hand, there are 2 easy methods. First: If you want only 1 partition spanning the whole disk, the easiest will be to use % in parted: (parted) mkpart primary ext4 0% 100%. The second method is using this awk script from a bash …
So, I already know vim, but for people who want to learn, the following is quite fun: http://vim-adventures.com/
Just a quick update, to let you all knowing that the private datacenter is now redundant IaaS. The only thing it does not offer (yet) is a redundant network. The main cluster filesystem is spread over 4 hosts on 2 locations, which should improve reliability. Its also reliable to assume, that when you mirror hardware …
First off, you need to have these 3 packages installed: – FFMPEG (optional) – FLAC – LAME FFMPEG is by far, the simpelest method. If you use it, it will automaticly convert the tags as well. Be sure that your installed version supports flac/mp3. With FFMPEG SCRIPT: #!/bin/bash for f in *.flac; do ffmpeg -i …
Quickly convert flac audio to mp3 audio with Linux Read More »
I recently came across an oracle redhat linux server without lost+found. It had been deleted because oracle needs an empty directory on installation. Albeit this is an insane rule, deleting an important system directory is a really bad idea. I will tell you why.
I recently came across a default SLES installation which has the following $PATH: (truncated for clarity) /sbin:/usr/sbin/:${HOME}/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin/:/usr/local/bin ………. This at first glance appears as a security problem , as a malevolant user can add $HOME/bin/ls and a user can execute a different ls or other arbitrary command that does something totally different. However, changing the …
Evaluation order of $PATH variable and why its important to understand. Read More »
So, Just a quick note. I bought an Asus O!Play in the store because I needed a new media client/player as the one inside my TV is simply too limited. The O!play had everything I needed and it supposed to implement nfs shares from the unix/linux world. Its supposed to be based on linux. Well …
