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 linux, ubuntu
19
Apr
2009

Freecom Media Player with Samba

Instructions here for setting up Samba with the Freecom Network Media Player.http://www.lauracowen.co.uk/blog/2008/01/13/setting-up-a-freecom-media-player-with-ubuntu/

Written by jonny in linux
17
Apr
2009

Sticky Bit

From Linux Format magazine. The Sticky Bit:“changes the rules about who can delete files. If the sticky bit is set on a directory, files within it can be deleted only [...]