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In order to force an fsck check on reboot simply stick a file in the root of the filesystem you wish checked named forcefsck and reboot. You can use the line touch /forcefsck to create it. If you have the filesystem mounted under another path edit the line accordingly. fsck will automatically remove this file [ READ MORE ]
I have noticed that the Linux versions of VMware products love their swap usage. I do not know if this is a “fault” of Linux or the VMware software but it annoys and slows me down. After looking around for an elegant solution I just decided to take the brute force method to emptying my [ READ MORE ]
Installing VMware Tools on a Linux host is very simple. All you need to do is make sure the headers for your current kernel and GCC are installed. Here is an example of the commands you would run for Debian/Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install linux-headers-generic gcc sudo mount /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom cp /media/cdrom/VMware*.tar.gz /tmp sudo umount /media/cdrom cd /tmp tar xzvf VMware*.gz cd vmware-tools-distrib/ sudo [ READ MORE ]
For some unexplainable reason it annoyed me that most Linux distros use a swap partition instead of a swap file. Depending on your setup a swap file will be just as fast and will even allow you to suspend to disk. Here is how you do it. Enter the following lines at the Terminal: sudo dd if=/dev/zero [ READ MORE ]
I have recently stumbled upon SmoothWall Express 3.0 SP1. I am getting down-right giddy thinking about all the neat things I can do at home with this thing. SmoothWall Express is a stand-alone, open-source firewall project. It has a large, active community full of helpful people. Some of these helpful people create mods to extend the [ READ MORE ]