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 [...]
It can be a real pain trying to find detailed hardware information in Linux when you don’t know what tools to use. I will try and outline a few tools that are typically pre-installed in many Linux distributions, as well as show you where to find information stored on your computer using the cat command [...]
1. I love military shows and movies. 2. I have several tattoo’s. 3. I am: Irish, Austrian, and a mix of many others? 4. I am a convert to Debian from Slackware. 5. I love street/drag racing. 6. I can’t stand the majority of society. 7. I would rather freeze than sweat. 8. I watch [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
I downloaded a DVD torrent of a documentary titled “Steal This Film II“. This torrent was saved as a single ISO image. I figured there has to be a way to play a DVD ISO without having to burn that ISO to a physical DVD disc. Here is how to play a DVD ISO in [...]
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 [...]
