Linux Tutorials on the topic “Linux”
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Browsing the Windows network with your linux machine with automatic mounting and discovery of all hosts and shares.
Author: stefbon • Tags: linux, samba, storage • Comments: 0An attempt to complete automatic discovery and mounting of SMB (Windows and Samba) networkshares For some time I've been looking for a good way to let my computer discover the Windows network and other networkservices like SSH and FTP and mount shares on demand. After trying the kioslaves in the desktop of my choice (KDE) and the FUSE programs Fusesmb and SmbNetFs, I was not really satisfied. There had to be an way to let my computer discover all the workgroups/domains, the hosts and the shares, and mount a share on a hosts on demand.This contruction does that exactly, for the networkservices SMB ("Windows Neighboorhoud") and SSH. Support for FTP is underway.
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Expanding A Root-FS
Author: gbi •
Tags: centos, linux, storage •
Comments: 3 Expanding A Root-FS There might be the situation, that your root filesystem runs out of space, so it has to be expanded. With filesystems other than the root filesystem this could easily be done for instance with gparted. With the root filesystem this is not possible, as gparted could only expand filesystems that are not mounted, which is impossible with the root filesystem. The only way to enlarge the root filesystem is to boot from a kind of rescuesystem, Live-CD or the like, and then to expand the root filesystem. The following tutorial describes, how this is achieved by using Systemrescue-CD.
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Setting Up LVM On Top Of Software RAID Subsystem - RHEL & Fedora
Author: SKRHCE2006 • Tags: linux, fedora, storage • Comments: 1Setting Up LVM On Top Of Software RAID Subsystem - RHEL & Fedora Here is a quick look how to build an LVM on top of RAID 1 array, so that we combine the power of these two. This kind of setup is extremely useful in situations where we want a file server to store large amounts of data which provides a centralized backup, storage space for downloadable files via ftp/http, and that may grow enormously in the coming years after the initial setup.
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Creating Portable DiskSafes With LoopbackFS And LVM Snapshots
Author: tabination • Tags: linux, storage • Comments: 0Creating Portable DiskSafes With LoopbackFS And LVM Snapshots This is the "DiskSafe" idea used to store backups of server data. This could be used to replace physical tape volume and still provide portablility. I have found pieces of this information around the Internet but nothing putting it all together.
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Back Up (And Restore) LVM Partitions With LVM Snapshots
Author: Falko Timme • Tags: linux, other, storage • Comments: 26Back Up (And Restore) LVM Partitions With LVM Snapshots This tutorial shows how you can create backups of LVM partitions with an LVM feature called LVM snapshots. An LVM snapshot is an exact copy of an LVM partition that has all the data from the LVM volume from the time the snapshot was created. The big advantage of LVM snapshots is that they can be used to greatly reduce the amount of time that your services/databases are down during backups because a snapshot is usually created in fractions of a second. After the snapshot has been created, you can back up the snapshot while your services and databases are in normal operation.
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How To Install Linux Software-Raid on Debian 3.1, 3.1r1a & Ubuntu 5.10
Author: patjec • Tags: linux, storage • Comments: 19How To Install Linux Software-Raid on Debian 3.1, 3.1r1a & Ubuntu 5.10 Version 0.3 (c) Copyleft Patrick Coeman (patrick_dot_coeman_at_171_dot_net) Last edited: 21/01/2006Tested with these distros: Debian 3.1 & 3.1r1a sarge, Ubuntu-server 5.10 "The Breezy Badger Release" all for i386.
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Set Up A Fileserver For Small/Medium Enterprises With SME Server 7.1
Author: Falko Timme • Tags: linux, other, samba, storage • Comments: 3Set Up A Fileserver For Small/Medium Enterprises With SME Server 7.1 This tutorial shows how to set up a fileserver for small and medium enterprises with SME Server 7.1. SME Server is an open-source Linux server distribution (released under the GPL) based on CentOS that can turn a computer into a gateway, firewall, fileserver, printserver, mailserver (including webmail), etc. In this article we will focus on the fileserver aspect of SME Server.
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How To Configure Software RAID To Send An Email When Something's Wrong With RAID
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: linux, storage •
Comments: 4 How To Configure Software RAID To Send An Email When Something's Wrong With RAID This short guide explains how you can configure software RAID to send you an email when something's wrong with RAID, for example if a hard drive fails. I've tested this on Debian Etch, but it should apply to all other distributions with minor adjustments to paths, etc.
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Replacing A Failed Hard Drive In A Software RAID1 Array
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: linux, other, storage •
Comments: 93 This guide shows how to remove a failed hard drive from a Linux RAID1 array (software RAID), and how to add a new hard disk to the RAID1 array without losing data.
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Recover Data From RAID1 LVM Partitions With Knoppix Linux LiveCD
Author: till • Tags: linux, other, storage • Comments: 5Recover Data From RAID1 LVM Partitions With Knoppix Linux LiveCD This tutorial describes how to rescue data from a single hard disk that was part of a LVM2 RAID1 setup like it is created by e.g the Fedora Core installer. Why is it so problematic to recover the data? Every single hard disk that formerly was a part of a LVM RAID1 setup contains all data that was stored in the RAID, but the hard disk cannot simply be mounted. First, a RAID setup must be configured for the partition(s) and then LVM must be set up to use this (these) RAID partition(s) before you will be able to mount it. I will use the Knoppix Linux LiveCD to do the data recovery.
