Zero Filling a Disk in Linux

Zero Filling a Disk in Linux

The simple way to wipe or zerofill a disk is: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sd? bs=1M However I found an article describing how to zero-fill with a progress indicator using pipebench, installed on Debian/Ubuntu ...

Increasing CentOS LVM under VMWare

Increasing CentOS LVM under VMWare

Background: I had an existing CentOS machine as a virtual machine running on VMWare ESX Server and it was running out of space so for future reference I did the ...

SquidGuard LDAP User Search and Special Characters

SquidGuard LDAP User Search and Special Characters

So I had a problem with the ldapusersearch string as some eejit has created an OU with spaces and an apostrophe in the name. So the characters are represented as: comma ...

Flushing local client DNS cache

Flushing local client DNS cache

From info I found here. This is how to flush the local client DNS cache. Windows: ipconfig /flushdns Linux: sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart Mac: lookupd -flushcache

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Written by jonny in Uncategorized
15
Jan
2007

Wireless Networking in Ubuntu Linux with the Wanadoo/Orange Livebox

I had been using Ubuntu/Kubuntu for some time with Wanadoo/Orange in the UK connecting to the Livebox by Ethernet, but I recently had to move my computer to a different [...]

Written by jonny in Uncategorized
14
Jan
2007

/etc/fstab – Automounting NTFS and ext3

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.## proc /proc proc defaults 0 0# /dev/hda3UUID=d1794253-261e-427c-b952-6e469ff74970 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1# /dev/hda5UUID=eb900d14-a3d3-4649-a44e-e204667d1619 none swap sw 0 0/dev/hdc /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0/dev/hdd /media/cdrom1 [...]

Written by jonny in Uncategorized
7
Jan
2007

Mounting another partition for home

I set up an ext3 partition on another hard drive, then amended /etc/fstab and added the following line: /dev/hdb1 /home ext3 nodev,nosuid 0 2 This allows me to keep my [...]