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ZFS on Linux and Amazon EC2
I have a situation where I need dynamically expandable storage space on a Linux machine running in Amazon EC2, and ZFS came to mind. If I remember properly, ZFS supports a way to dynamically expand a ...
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Turn off --skip-grant-tables in MySQL
I'm pretty new to using Linux but am setting up my MySQL databases on an Amazon ec2 instance. I followed some directions I found about resetting the user login pass by using the --skip-grant-tables ...
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how to have root partition LVM for RHEL 5.8 64 bit on AWS EC2
I am new to this and I have to create a RHEL 5.8 Amazon Machine Image (AMI) in which the root partition should be a logical volume. I know how to create a data partition as a logical volume but am not ...
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What is /dev/xvde1?
I'm having to do with an OpenShift RHEL Linux installation running on Amazon EC2. In the filesystem, there is a device file named /dev/xvde1 mounted to / ... and a device file named /dev/xvde2 mounted ...
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Do I need ephemeral storage?
I was running a small instance on Amazon EC2. I'm trying to migrate it to a micro as it requires very minimal processing power. One thing I just learned though, is that micro instances do not come ...
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Is it possible for a CentOS system on EC2 to not have a bootloader?
I'm attempting to look for grub:
[root /]# find / -iname "*grub*"
/sbin/grubby
/usr/share/man/man8/grubby.8.gz
/usr/share/vim/vim70/syntax/grub.vim
/usr/share/vim/vim70/ftplugin/grub.vim
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What is the optimum swap size on Linux for a heavily threaded program?
I using an Amazon EC2 server small instance and by default it allows 382 threads per process. However, I wish to run 10,000 threads in a single process. Recently, I learned that this can be done by ...
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How should I set up additional EBS storage on an Amazon EC2 instance?
One of my clients has three EC2 servers on the Amazon cloud, with several attached EBS devices:
server 1 and server 2 are ubuntu micro instances, and server 3, the main production box, is a ubuntu ...
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Can't connect remotely to server running redhat (ec2)
I created a RedHat 6.1 VM with EC2. Logged in as root, I installed (unzipped) JDK1.7 in /root/bin/jdk1.7.0 and installed (unzipped) GlassFish 3.1.1 in /root/bin/glassfish3. I set JAVA_HOME and ...
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Attempting to update Amazon Route53 using a script, but domain is not being updated
I have several Amazon EC2 instances, running Ubuntu 10.04, with which I'd like to use Amazon's Route53. I setup a script as described in Shlomo Swidler's article, but I'm still missing something.
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