This guide will assist you in setting up an rsnapshot backup server on your network. It will briefly explain setting up passwordless logins via SSH for rsync using SSH keys. For quite some time, I was Continue reading
Category Archives: Filesystem
How to repair a software RAID5 volume with more than one failed disk
Author: LevShamardin
It is usually bad when a disk fails in a RAID5 volume, but sometimes things may get even worse, and a RAID5 volume may lose more than one disk. In such cases mdadm would not allow Continue reading
Doing snapshots with XFS filesystems
Problem
There are several Howtos on the net, which tell you to do the following if you want to create LVM snapshots if you have XFS filesystems on your logical volumes:
xfs_freeze -f /mnt/xfs lvcreate Continue reading
How to Mount an NTFS Filesystem
Installing required packages
While older ntfs drivers were prone to eat your data in r/w-mode, ntfs-3g seems to be r/w safe. See the ntfs-3g page for more information.
As of CentOS 5.4 (kernel Continue reading
Expanding a LVM logical volume
This tip explains how to expand an existing logical volume by adding a new new physical volume to a volume group through LVM. The e2fsprogs and lvm2 packages are required to follow these steps, but these Continue reading
Resizing Ext3
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Before changing a file system it should be unmounted, so you’ll need to create working standalone boot disks. The LiveCD would be a good choice. An ext3 filesystem can supposedly be expanded with resize2fs Continue reading