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A collection of disk-related errors and their fixes. Block Size Mismatch WarningAfter writing an ISO to a flash drive, partitioning tools may complain: 1 Warning: The driver descriptor says the …

found top level header in "/notes/linux/network/" that didn't match meta title ("Network Configuration" != "Network")Modern Linux networking is typically managed through ip …

ConfigurationFirst install the transmission-daemon. The package is typically called transmission-daemon on Debian/Ubuntu and transmission-daemon or transmission-cli on Fedora/Arch. # Install the …

Useful for monitoring system statistics such as CPU core temperatures, fan speeds, and voltages. SetupAfter installing the lm_sensors package, run sensors-detect as root to walk through loading any …

Logrotate is a pretty simple and straight forward program. It's generally run as a nightly cron job testing the various configured file to see if they match their respective criteria for rotation. …

Over the years I've found myself using many different naming schemes for servers under my control. I came across a naming convention that finally feels correct. That blog post is quite well written …

Bash BuiltinsThe script utility which I've found in Fedora as a default package (or it's a bash builtin). You can record a session and the timing data about it exit and then view it like an in console …

InstallationInstall gpsd and optionally the client tools. On a headless server you'll probably want to skip gpsd-clients as they pull in X dependencies for xgps. 1 2 3 $ pacman -S gpsd # Arch $ apt …

Recovering Data from SwapSometimes useful bits of information can be recovered from swap. Whether it's encryption keys, documents that were being worked on or anything else that might've ended up in …