need help determining the partition size of working disks.
I am the lucky person to take over the maintenance of an existing RAID5 array. Recently I realized that sda was dead. Obviously I have to replace the disk with a new working one. The problem is, I need...
View Article*fdisk*
There's a number of tools for doing that, including fdisk, cfdisk, or sfdisk, I think.
View ArticleGreat tutorial, easy and very helpful
Thanks for this tutorial, I was looking for this information on several different occasions and never found anything simple enough for me. Tonight I found this, I made some notes and added it to my...
View ArticleMore system info
Here's some more detailed system info:CPU info $ cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 28 model name : Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU N270 @ 1.60GHz stepping : 2 cpu...
View Articlebesides mbr there is another useful tool: ms-sys
But unfortunately ms-sys package disappeared from Debian Lenny because it not compatible with current Debian policies. ms-sys is significantly feature-rich than mbr
View ArticlePut this on the wiki
If you haven't already, please make a page on the wiki:http://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn
View Articlecpu scaling governors
Matthew Garrett says that using the 'powersave' CPU governor results in poorer power savings, since the CPU has to run longer. The 'performance' governor also has its shortcomings, so 'ondemand' is the...
View ArticleUpdate on the URL's for building USB boot disk
I discovered via HTTP browsing that the URL for downloads of the .iso are changed: http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/5.0.1/i386/iso-cd/debian-501-i386-netinst.iso Thank you for your useful, accurate...
View ArticleI wonder why there is no
I wonder why there is no CD-ROM drive. Of course I would use an usb-stick, but I still prefer CDs.
View ArticlePartitions on RAID?
Hey,just wondering, why do you create a single partition on the RAID and encrypt it afterwards? Couldn't you go with the plain "device" directly? (Same applies to the whole disks too, but there one is...
View Articletech
So much technical details and explanation of this thing is almost impossible to find somewhere else. I would like to say that you are really doing a great job, thanks for sharing it with us!
View ArticlePartitions on RAID
Hm, true. I didn't really think much about this. Using the plain /dev/sdc and /dev/sdd should work equally fine, yes.Uwe.
View ArticleHelped me building my own NAS
Very comprehensive page, thanks a lot! I've planned to build my own NAS server with a beagle board (www.beagleboard.org) and I found all required informations here (using a 2.6.35 kernel on debian)....
View Articleauto mount what to change in /etc/fstab and /etc/cryptab file
After reboot my auto-mounting of encrypted does not come up.df -k # df -k Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sda1 151780516 3026000 141044464 3% / none 1016108 664 1015444 1% /dev...
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