I’ve been playing with various configurations of my software RAID and thought I’d start again from scratch. The obvious question then was, how would I remove my previous efforts? This seems to be...
Learn MoreIn my previous article I’ve explained how to setup a software RAID with mdadm. This was a RAID 5 setup with 3 drives, and in this article we’ll take a look how to expand it with a 4th drive,...
Learn MoreIn this article I’ll explain how to setup a software RAID on Fedora. This will turn any number of attached USB drives into any flavour of RAID without the necessity of a dedicated enclosure. I’m...
Learn MoreI was surprised to find that the mail command doesn’t work out of the box in Fedora, nor in the minimal installation of CentOS 7. Thankfully there’s an easy way to add it by installing the mailx...
Learn MoreI like the idea of having a shared drive attached to my always-on Linux system, so that all my computers (Windows and Mac) can access those in a central place. It’s like a NAS without having a NAS box...
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