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March 20, 2009

NFS Speed Test: Quick and Dirty

Here is a quick and dirty way to test your NFS transfer speed. What I did was to use the command “dd” to create a dummy file on the network share mounted with NFS. This will work when mounting a network share with Samba as well. First, mount your network share if it is not [...]

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January 6, 2008

How to create an ISO image in Linux

Sometimes, tasks are easier to accomplish from the command line. I stumbled upon a CD full of data from the BBS era. I thought to myself, I really need to create an ISO of this and put it on my file server (the cd is in pretty bad shape). Here is a quick way to [...]

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