Category Archives: Unix
ntfs disks under linux are slow
I never really noticed before, but external disks formatted as ntfs are really slow to access under linux. I got a new 2TB external disk to use for backups as all my 1TB disks were around 90% full (I was … Continue reading
MHVTL Virtual tape software, take 2
I wanted to see if I could get iSCSI tape workingi on fedora, it had been a while since I last tried and I thought maybe tape support had been introduced to Fedora by now. It is, although I had … Continue reading
lvm note for my reference
Still playing with iSCSI, so needed to enlarge the logical volume now I am actually using it. This post is just for my reference as for years I have been running resize2fs manually after resizing an LV, but I noticed … Continue reading
Pinnacle DVC 100 Capture Device and FC15
This works on my FC15 system with the VHS player plugged into a Pinnacle Dazzle DVC 100 USB capture device to copy VHS tapes to AVI files with syncronised video and sound; uses under 15% cpu on a dual core … Continue reading
Learnt some new Fedora packaging commands
So posting, for if nothing else my later reference. I will probably need them again. The issue was that in the last ‘yum update’ I did (it included a kernel update) it worked perfectly on three machines. On my fourth, … Continue reading
Replacing a hard disk with a larger one in Linux
Well I finally got around to relaying out my new disk. The history of the requirement is that basically my 80GB disk died in a screaming heap (reboot number one had disk errors, reboot number two no disk found, yup … Continue reading
Playing with VMs – clonezilla under QEMU
First off, let me make it clear I am running QEMU non-accelerated here, I don’t have a CPU that supports VT-X so qemu-kvm won’t work for me. And before anybody says VirtualBox is a lot faster than QEMU in a … Continue reading
Triple boot from OSX now working, but life is a bitch
Finally got that working. Now my new desktop can boot into OSX, Vista and Fedora. The Vista image is pre-SP1, as I just can’t get SP1 to install on there at all, but that will be in another post. Where … Continue reading
Snow Leopard on x86
Where have I been wasting my time lately (apart from loooong hours at work that is). Was interested to see what Snow Leopard was like. And had an effectively spare server/desktop that had three disks, Vista on the main, Fedora … Continue reading
VTL – Virtual tape library
For some reason I thought this would be a good idea, something fun to play with anyway. But of course I wanted to make it complicated and make the drives network acessable. Anyway, the virtual tape library itself was a … Continue reading