In the last post we looked at how to get a ZFS file system up and running on a CentOS 7 host and how to enable the auto mount of the ZFS file systems. In this post we’ll look at two of the features ZFS provides: Snapshots and clones.
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ZFS for Solaris is around for several years now (since 2015). But there is also a project called OpenZFS which makes ZFS available on other operating systems. For Linux the announcement for ZFS being production ready was back in 2013. So why not run PostgreSQL on it? ZFS provides many cool features including compression, snapshots and build in volume management. Lets give it a try and do an initial setup. More details will follow in…
By William Sescu Have your ever faced such a situation. You have usernames in your /etc/passwd file with more than 8 characters. This is no problem for Linux at all, usernames may be up to 32 characters long, only your ps output might look a little scrambled. It shows you the uid instead of the username like in the following example: $ id uid=20001(longuser01) gid=10002(oinstall) groups=10002(oinstall) $ sleep 1000000 & $ ps -ef | grep…
By William Sescu A filesystem resize can be done in several ways, online, offline, with LVM2 or without LVM2. However, this blog will describe how to do an online resize of ext3/ext4 filesystems where a virtual disk (vmdk) is online added to a VMware Redhat guest OS. So let’s start with the online filesystem resize of ext3/4 filesystems on the Redhat guest OS. A new virutal disk (preferably an eagerd zero thick on VM running…
In this article we’ll going to explore on how to extend a partition which resides in a Logical Volume. LVM (Logical Volume Manager) is a great tool for managing your storage devices on a Linux host. Lets start with some vocabulary. In the order of the lowest layer (hard disks) towards the highest layer (the file system): Your hard disks cabled in the waiter or in a SAN Physical Volume: these are the hard disks,…
Ausgangslage Ein Kunde hat mit kürzlich danach gefragt, wie ich den Output eines Scripts auf einer Linuxplattform per Mail sauber formatiert versenden kann. Als Beispiel nehmen wir folgendes: ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ File System free space on fed22v1.localdomain ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ | | | Mb-Total Mb-Free 0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% | | / : 17918 16263 #####—-+———+———+———+———+ 10% | | /boot : 476 326 #############——+———+———+———+ 27% | | /dev : 479 479 +——–+———+———+———+———+ 0% | | /dev/shm :…