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 photography
29
Aug
2011

Watercolor Action for Photoshop

I had been asked to create some watercolour versions of my holiday photos so I created the following action file for Photoshop (CS2). What does the action do? Creates 3 [...]

Written by jonny in linux, red hat centos
16
Aug
2011

Changing the hostname in CentOS

Background: I made a tar backup of one system and wanted to untar that onto different hardware. A bit like cloning. However I needed to make sure the hostname and [...]

Written by jonny in featured, linux, shell
14
Aug
2011

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 [...]

Written by jonny in featured, linux, red hat centos, virtualisation
1
Aug
2011

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 [...]