On Fedora, MariaDB stores its flat database files in a directory that’s defined in a configuration file called mariadb-server.cnf, under the mysqld section (datadir). You’ll find this file here:...
Learn MoreFor this example I’m using Fedora 33, and will describe how to upgrade to 34. In-place upgrades work as far as two versions back, anything further will require intermediate steps. Update all packages...
Learn MoreI’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...
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