When mounting a partition you receive “mount: unknown filesystem type ‘linux_raid_member’” like so: [root ~] #>mount /dev/sde3 /mnt/disk/ mount: /mnt/disk: unknown filesystem type ‘linux_raid_member’. This will happen when the hard drive (partition) was previously a member of a linux/mdadm based RAIDX array and you mounted the partition directly NOT using the RAID system. You also […]
Prelink is a PITA. I removed it, read how and why I did this. Aide and Prelink I am using AIDE, prelink and AIDE do not like each other. I did some research on the Internet to find out whether prelink helps saving time starting up programs. There are many articles on the net including
There are things you should not do as a system administrator, one of which is not to copy, but we all do it as it saves time – this blog entry has the story when it went wrong, no badly but I lost many, many hours to debug and correct the (small) error. The Story
Commandments of System Administration: Thou Shalt Not Copy Read More »
I wanted to have a way to turn off the aircon in a server/printer room remotely using a Web Application and/or an executable via ssh and bash. I had to find a way to interact with the air conditioner via some device connected to a server (CentOS) so I could turn off/on the air conditioner
A simple Air Conditioner Controller using Linux Read More »
