Linux

Anybody else noticed that the Solaris 'crypt' command isn't in common use in the Linux community?

Continue reading "'crypt'ing in Linux.."

Posted by Mike Scott

Continue reading "Vx Storage Foundation Free!"

Posted by Mike Scott

Installing a replacement drive and being unable to shrink a filesystem to fit to the smaller replacement drive. I encountered an interesting problem today - how to copy a large dataset containing many hardlinked files.

Hard links are used relatively rarely, and so don't normally cause an issue - however - there was an interesting solution using rsync..

Continue reading "Rsync saves the day"

Posted by Mike Scott