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slow media - disk cache tuning?
Is there any way to make the system more consistent when using LUKS? (or slow storage in general) as it is everything is snappy until the write buffer is full, then everything grinds to a halt as the ...
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Clear unused space with zeros (btrfs)
How to clear unused space with zeros ? (btrfs)
I'm looking for something smarter than
cat /dev/zero > /mnt/X/big_zero ; sync; rm /mnt/X/big_zero
Like FSArchiver is looking for "used space" and ...
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How do pdflush, kjournald, swapd, etc interoperate?
Recently saw a question that sparked this thought. Couldn't really find an answer here or via the Google machine. Basically, I'm interested in knowing how the kernel I/O architecture is layered. For ...
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How do create an encrypted system with multiple Linux distributions?
A few weeks ago I created a completely encrypted system on a notebook and must say I like the idea. It's a little bit annoying to enter the password on every boot, but it's nice to know even if I ...
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iSCSI on startup
I've configure iSCSI but CentOS 6.3 is unable to recognize if on startup.
Here is fstab config:
/dev/sdb1 /home ext4 _netdev 0 0
Here is iscsi.conf ...
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Limiting write rate of a device
How does one go about limiting the write/read rate of a device, E.G., USB drive, SD card?
Motivation behind this question is covered here (superuser.com).
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Custom Bluetooth Configuration through terminal
I am running a Bluetooth module on my circuit for transmitting data. I want to connect this module to my Linux OS (openSUSE) and read data from it. I want to do custom configs and also custom read ...
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Fixing ssd card filesystem
While transferring media, my sansa was disconnected due to cable issue, and now I cannot remove the broken folders from the ssd card in windows. Format did not work, so I've decided to solve it quite ...
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Can't format SSD during installation
Last night I tried to install Mandriva Linux on PC, where I have already Windows 7. In PC I've got 2 128GB SSD and 1 2TB HDD. On one SSD I installed Win7, and when I select the other empty SSD for ...
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Ubuntu eucalpytus cloud, Unable to see the volume from within a running instances after attaching
I am facing a rather strange issue when it comes to attaching EBS volumes to running instances.
We have a cloud with 2 monster machines (say NC1 and NC2) and one moderately powerful machine ...
