Archive for the ‘Linux’ Category
In my laptop I have a solid state disk, and frankly I am way past addicted to solid state disks, but what you get in performance you lose in capacity. As such I have had to be creative with how I can have the capacity and the performance that I need. Lately the solution has [...]
In my new role I am using Oracle Linux more and more, so as an exercise I have been replicating my builds on Oracle Linux. Here we are going to use Oracle Linux 6.2 x86_64 as a KVM hypervisor. Keep in mind that KVM is not Oracle’s preferred hypervisor, however it is supported, but if [...]
So I have found that it is rather easy to add entries into /etc/fstab while maintaining relatively legible scripts and making the changes with minimal user interaction… METHOD ONE This option is the simplest, we simply echo the line into the file as we want it to appear, then based on the >> it is [...]
Occasionally you will have the need to use physical volumes which exceed the limits of the standard DOS partitioning scheme. When you run into this a quick fdisk -l will reveal that you will need a new way to partition your disks. Fdisk will produce output similar to this… Use Parted to Create a Partition [...]
In my initial work with Oracle VM, I have run into a few fringe cases, which are not well documented, but actually have rather simple solutions. This one actually cropped up over the weekend for me. Over the weekend I decided to rebuild my company-issued laptop with Ubuntu Linux (12.04 amd64) to be specific. I [...]