Ok guys. According to Dons Tag bashing other users is a must to be successful on blogging. Ok. Nobody should say I have not read that posting there. But let’s be realistic – there is enough crap out there. Is it really that good to make a miracle out of every idea? Is it really better instead of […]
Author: ToeiRei
Who am I
Today I have found an email originating from my blog, asking who I am. I think I will answer the question here: My manufacturer assured me that I was made in Austria in the year 1980. Online I am known as Stargazer (this includes IRC and some boards). As you can see, I like technical things very much […]
Taken from RedHat
The LVM Package does not offer a great GUI for managing volumes. In fact, everything is to be done on CLI. RedHat did a nice GUI for Gnome. First of all, I searched a test install for the files to do me a tarball as I have seen a strange update filed as system-config-lvm-1.0.18-1.2.FC5.noarch.rpm – that’s a clue. […]
If things are working
If the PC is working and stable, tweak it. At the moment I am playing with LVM – logical volumes. That way I can resize my partitions the way I need them on the fly. If you want to do something advanced, move the root partition on a lvm volume. It works, if you do it right. A […]
There’s a new Filesystem in town: BTRFS
On the 12th of July Chris Mason mailed to the lkml.org mailinglist introducing his new project, a filesystem for a Datacenter, called BTRFS. Although we are not talking about a final version, the technical specifications are looking great. If you want to have a look at the current status, feel free to check out the downloads. Chris Mason […]
No more comment spam
Finally – Blogging as it should be: I am spam free since I changed some basic things on my blog. Even the akismet queue is empty! For everybody else out there fighting with the same problem, here is a small howto on how I managed to get things smooth: Please, do not expect a solution for all of […]