At least in RHEL 4, the fdisk command does not support the creation of filesystems larger than 2TB. In order to get around it, you have to use the parted command. I found the basic info here, but this is the long and short of how to cut off a big ol’ slice of disk [...]
If you’re familiar with UNIX, you know that changing mount points is really pretty easy. All you have to do is go into “/etc/fstab”, “/etc/vfstab” (or whatever your flavor of UNIX happens to call its filesystem table) and change the mount directory.
If, for instance, you had a Solaris box, and you wanted to make the [...]
So after being frustrated yesterday by not having any pretty Google Analytics reports to look at, they finally crunched up some data for me, and this morning I was able to start kicking the tires.
First assessment… WOW! They generate a report for just about anything you could possibly what to know, including things like what [...]
After reading about Google’s new Analytics tool yesterday, I signed up for an account and got spiralbound.net and twistedstitches.net logging to it. I quickly logged in this morning, all excited to see my reports (I’m pathetic, I know) but there were no reports to be seen. DAMN! Anyhow, I figured out that I have to [...]
This clever fellow Mark Russinovich over at sysinternals.com has discovered that Sony has been selling CD’s that install a digital rights management rootkit on its unsuspecting customer’s computers. They seem to have contracted with a company called First 4 internet which produces the rootkit, and contracts it out to the recording industry.
I Googled the company [...]
After getting PHP 5.0.5 to compile on my Solaris 9 server, I got the following error when doing the make install:
ld.so.1: php: fatal: relocation error: file /u01/packages/src/php-5.0.5/sapi/cli/php: symbol xmlRelaxNGCleanupTypes: referenced symbol not found
Killed
make[1]: *** [install-pear-installer] Error 137
make: *** [install-pear] Error 2
Turns out that the Sun XML packages are stomping all over the xml2 package from [...]
Earlier this month, a company came along and asked for a RAID 10 array. Understanding that RAID 10 is a cooler sounding way of saying RAID 1+0, I understood it as a mirror set that is striped across another mirror set. Simple enough… Just concatenate a couple of mirrors, and you’ve got RAID 10.
Indeed, RAID [...]
