TL;DR Yes you can assemble a md device from a stripe and a disk. Please don’t shoot! 🙂 I’m doing this on a testing server, I don’t have any idea about the long term stability and/or reliability and I don’t…
Tag: linux
Linux on the Acer E3-111 – Aspire E3-111-C5FN
I gave up on using a tablet and sold mine some time ago. My old toshiba m100 laptop was to heavy and too old to lug around when on holiday (mainly to download photos) so I decided to buy a…
Stream music from home when you are away
I run a pretty powerful microitx system as my home router. Since it’s always on (as oposed to my nas) I decided to add some storage so I can host my music and some tv shows. I checked some projects…
Load cycle count of Western Digital Green Drives and how to fix it from Linux
I run a NAS at home. It used to have 3x2TB WD EARS drives. At some point I saw online some remarks about increased Load Cycle Count when using these drives in a NAS/RAID setup but I didn’t have the…
Remove duplicates from the current folder
I needed today to remove duplicate files from a big folder (8Gb+, 10000+ files). I use the nice fdupes program written by Adrian Lopez fdupes -rdN . Note the point after the parameters. That means to search inside the current…
Microsoft updates Skype for Linux
Or in other news, hell froze over 🙂 Some people complained about the new interface, so I’ll try to be agains the flow here and say that I actually quite like it. It’s not like skype for linux was ever…
Removed ntfs partition reappears
So, I was repartitioning a harddrive that used to be a windows disk. I removed the ntfs partition that was spanning the whole drive and created a linux layout instead (two linux partitions and one swap). After writing the partition…
request_module: runaway loop modprobe binfmt-464c
I added a new disk to my HP N40L and moved the boot disk to another SATA port, which meant reconfiguring lilo. Strange enough after setting everything up I got: 1request_module: runaway loop modprobe binfmt-464c right after the kernel loading.…
Make sensors report temperature on slackware64-current with an Intel I7 2600k
For some reasons the required modules don’t get loaded. Add the following to /etc/rc.d/rc.modules right above the line reading ### Mouse support: 123### by SV for i2600k temperature /sbin/modprobe coretemp /sbin/modprobe pkgtemp Now sensors report the temperatures.
Quickly check if a process is running or not
When writting bash scripts one often needs to see if a process is running or not I like the following code; though I’m sure many ways of doing this exists, what’s your favorite? 123456if [ -z "$(pgrep process)" ] …