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Kevin Blalock

Archive for September, 2008

September 24, 2008

Blog World Expo 2008

Well, I have finally caught up on work, sleep, and family time. I spent this past weekend at the Blog World Expo 2008 in Las Vegas! This was the second annual Blog World Expo, and my first time in attendance. I worked the ServerBeach booth with two of my coworkers, Charnell Pugsley and Leroy Bobadilla. [...]

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September 16, 2008

Reclaiming ext3 disk space

The other day while working on my GPT article, I had noticed that there was alot of space being used with a clean partition and zero data on the drive. What is this about? So, I hit up Google. I found the following:
The most likely reason is reserved space. When an ext2/3 file system is [...]

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September 12, 2008

Creating GPT Partitions

I have run into an issue where I needed to boot off of a partition larger than 2 TB, which was created as a hardware RAID 5 array. Here is the problem, the partition end’s up being a GPT partition and you cannot boot off of a GPT partition. So, after carving out a decently [...]

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September 10, 2008

New Job!

After months of trying, I finally got my foot in the door at ServerBeach as a QA/Imprlementations Engineer!
For those of you who are not familiar with ServerBeach, you can read about the company here.
*forgot to publish this, I have been there for almost 2 months now!*

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