Category Archives: Linux
Simple Home NAS solution
I have been thinking on having my home NAS and i did survey for a few market product like QSNAP or SYNOLOGY will cost me near to 1000USD , if i were to get a RAID-5 + hot swap features. I struggled for a while and decided to use the simplest + cheap solution for home NAS to host my photo + movie + mp3. Step 1 – Identify OS: 1. Freenas – FreeBSD based , i like FreeBSD because … Continue reading
python script for simple write and delete test
Have been interested for python script and finally i got a chance to play with it. So the mission for today is to create the write and delete test for my environment. Local machine —-COPY—> Mounted filesystem in NAS Why i am doing so? to get a baseline for my write and delete operation.I will make use of “time” command to get total runtime for the script to complete the operation. So here goes the simple script(Feel free to provide … Continue reading
LVM extend in live mode!
Q: I have a LVM(logical volume) in my Linux, i need to extend the size without offline the logical volume. A: You will need to ensure you have spaces in volume group. Assuming the VG name is : VolGroup00. [root@linux1 data]# vgdisplay — Volume group — VG Name VolGroup00 System ID Format lvm2 Metadata Areas 1 Metadata Sequence No 10 VG Access read/write VG Status resizable MAX LV 0 Cur LV 8 Open LV 8 Max PV 0 Cur PV … Continue reading
Promote NIS Slave Server in Redhat/CentOS
Situation: You have NIS Master, you need a slave setup in your office. This tutorial is covering steps for Redhat/CentOS/Fedora 64 bits. It might differ from what you have seen online. 1. Install ypserv in your server yum install -y ypserv.x86_64 2. Start the services service ypserv start service ypxfrd start 3. Verify the yp is ready #rpcinfo -u localhost ypserv program 100004 version 1 ready and waiting program 100004 version 2 ready and waiting 4. Copy the database fro … Continue reading
Use awk to calculate total size of files – part 1
Your boss came to you and asked for total size of files which has not been accessed for more than 30 days! Assume that you are just checking for 1 directory “/abc” . Here comes the simple command: find /abc -atime +30 -exec ls -lk ‘{}’ \; | awk ‘{SUM += $5} END {print SUM} ‘ Explaination: find /abc -atime +30 -exec ls -lk ‘{}’ \ find command will find /abc and check for accestime which has not been access … Continue reading
-rwsr-xr-x Unix file permission
Everybody handling a Unix operating system would very well know what chmod 777 means. That the owner, group and the user of the file is given all permissions (Read, Write and Execute on a particular file). This could otherwise be written as “chmod ugo+rwx “. Meaning that you are giving User, Group and Owner of the file, the rights to Read, Write and Execute the file. Here comes the rws scenario. Best example that is available for this rws is … Continue reading
Redhat KVM – Network bridge
Redhat just released RHEL 5.4 with KVM & Xen both supported in this release, so i have downloaded CentOS 5.4 and try to play around with KVM. My hardware: Dell M710 with 8 cores of Nehalem , 72G of RAMs My OS: CentOS 5.4 with KVM & Xen installed My test guest: Windows 7 The sweet thing: virt-manager is able to support for KVM new machine creation. The future for Redhat virtualization , since Redhat acquired Qumranet(company behind KVM) The … Continue reading
Linux useful find command
Linux find command Continue reading