This is a collection of notes I took while setting up a virtual machine host which has several guest virtual machines running on Ubuntu 8.10. 1) Create a logical volume to install the guest $ sudo lvcreate -v -n phq_mail -L 80G vg0 /dev/md1 Setting logging type to disk Finding volume group \"vg0\" C...

As I wrote quite a while ago, I set up a RAID5 with three IDE disks at home, which I'm using as backup (yes, I know that RAID != backup) and storage space. A few days ago, the RAID was put to a real-life test for the first time, as one of the disks died. Here's what that looks like in dmesg: raid5: ...

Pimp My Drive by Richard and Barb There’s remarkably little information online about using MySQL on ZFS, successfully or not, so I did what any enterprising geek would do: Built a box, threw some data on it, and tossed it into production to see if it would sink or swim. I’m a Linux geek,...

I've bought a new hard drive for my laptop recently, because I finally got fed up with my constantly-full disk. Having to browse around in $HOME looking for stuff which can be safely deleted just because I want to run fetchmail (and that would fill up my disk) just sucks. So, after getting a cheapo ...