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 Topic: Hard Drives and File SystemsThe new items published under this topic are as follows.
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Posted on Jun 28, 2006 - 11:32 AM ::: by solrac ::: 2467 Reads
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Monitoring your file systems and ensuring they don't fill up is a vital process in the day-to-day management of your UNIX systems. This article looks at methods for keeping an eye on disk space (free reg. req'd), discovering which files, users, or applications are using up the most space, and how to make use of quotas and other solutions to find the information you need.
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Posted on Jun 14, 2006 - 06:35 PM ::: by gg234 ::: 1467 Reads
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Bacula is a set of computer programs that permits you (or the system administrator) to manage backup, recovery, and verification of computer data across a network of computers of different kinds. Bacula can also run entirely upon a single computer, and can backup to various types of media, including tape and disk.
In technical terms, it is a network Client/Server based backup program. Bacula is relatively easy to use and efficient, while offering many advanced storage management features that make it easy to find and recover lost or damaged files. Due to its modular design, Bacula is scalable from small single computer systems to systems consisting of hundreds of computers located over a large network. Read full article here. If you want to install the Bacula Webinterface.
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Posted on May 06, 2006 - 05:35 PM ::: by solrac ::: 1206 Reads
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The most commonly used file system, ext2, is a traditional UNIX-style file system that doesn't mix well with modern hard drive sizes. The ext3 file system adds journalling, but not much else. If you want something really advanced (free reg. req'd), you might want to check out the current Reiser4 file system.
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Posted on May 24, 2004 - 06:25 PM ::: by gabrielinux ::: 4946 Reads
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New Linux users usually wander how to install Linux in a different hard drive or partition and then dual-boot. This short series of articles are meant to do explain the partitioning, multi-booting, and other boot issues for the knowledge-hungry mind. This first article, Partitioning 101, explains the most common hardware configurations found and how to set them up.
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Posted on May 22, 2003 - 10:52 AM ::: by Submit_News ::: 2132 Reads
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This article provides information VFS. A virtual filesystem (VFS) is an abstraction with surprisingly productive uses. Several popular languages now support VFS constructs, including Java and Perl. Tcl's filesystem is completely virtual filesystem aware and is way ahead of other languages in its VFS sophistication. The concept should intrigue anyone working with Linux, of course, simply because so much of Linux's own character comes from the representation of devices, tables, and other objects within the UNIX filesystem.
Australian hacker Andrew Tridgell has been working on pushing Samba beyond the POSIX world and figuring out what work needs to be done to get Samba to support new filesystems such as XFS, ext3, and Storage Tank. The answer is nothing less than a complete rewrite of Samba's smbd code, which has become his latest pet project. Here's an interview with Andrew Tridgell on his latest Samba rewrite.
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Posted on May 05, 2003 - 06:26 PM ::: by Enchoate ::: 4845 Reads
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hdparm allows you to enable, often disabled, features of your IDE controller. Features you probably think you are using right now. This (admittedly) old but wonderful article at O'Reillynet will help you get started.
After a fresh Debian install most computers move data to the HDD between 3 - 8 MB/sec. With just a little bit of tuning, I regularly get drives to move data at about 20 MB/sec. Now you can too!
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Posted on Nov 26, 2002 - 11:03 PM ::: by Anonymous ::: 1640 Reads
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What are sym links? I am trying to get Mplayer working and it needs a sym link in the fstab to get the device /dev/dvd working. Currently my DVD points to /dev/hdd and mounted to /cdrom1. Can anyone help?
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Posted on Nov 25, 2002 - 07:51 AM ::: by Anonymous ::: 1448 Reads
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Is it possible to load my Windows2000 partition to retrieve files from it? I would like to access the two thousand mp3s I have saved on it, and I can not find a good file sharing program (napster, kazaa, etc)
Also, does anybody know how I can get my ethernet card to...err run? I have to use 'pump' to get it to connect, doesn't run when i boot up. Thanks in advance
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Posted on Nov 24, 2002 - 07:42 PM ::: by wdatkinson ::: 2921 Reads
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I have Debian 3.0 successfully installed on a Colbalt Raq2. The Raq2 has two nic cards. After an unclean shutdown (power outage) eth1 will not come up. The system reports that the device is not found. When this happened once before it was resolved by running an fsck on the filesystems. My question is without a floppy/cd-rom, etc, how can I force the system to run fsck & repair the file systems on reboot? The unit is mounted in a rack and its a major pain to hook up a serial console.
I fixed this before by removing the unit from the rack, setting my bootp server back up and netbooting the unit, then shelling out and repairing the filesystem. I'm hoping to avoid that process if possible. I'm relatively new to the debian distro.... Thank you in advance.
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Posted on Nov 20, 2002 - 01:06 AM ::: by Anonymous ::: 1465 Reads
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Upgraded to unstable, and installed the 2.4 kernel. When I boot the 2.4 kernel, I get lots and lots of this type of message logged:
Nov 11 23:10:05 debby kernel: hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
Nov 11 23:10:05 debby kernel: hda: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
Any ideas what's going on?
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