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LVM

Storage

Create a volume group # vgcreate [OPTIONS] VG_new PV ... vgcreate --autobackup y ceph0 /dev/disk/...

Updated 2 months ago by dustin@swigg.net

Troubleshooting

Kubernetes

Deleting Namespace Stuck Terminating NAMESPACE=my-namespace kubectl get namespaces $NAMESPACE -o ...

Updated 2 months ago by dustin@swigg.net

Introduction: Novice to Cloud Provider

Project Hyperconverged

Updated 2 months ago by dustin@swigg.net

Benchmarking

Storage

fio Description Flexible IO Tester (Fio) is a benchmarking and workload simulation tool for Linu...

Updated 2 months ago by dustin@swigg.net

Query Hardware Info

Linux

dmidecode # dmidecode --list-types bios system baseboard chassis processor memory cache connector...

Updated 2 months ago by dustin@swigg.net

Serial Console

Linux

Output to Serial Console Make sure the kernel is started with the following parameter… console=tt...

Updated 3 months ago by dustin@swigg.net

Physical Hardware

blackbox

Basic Components Compute Processor Intel Core i7-8700k - This is the processor I had been using...

Updated 5 months ago by dustin@swigg.net

EFI

Linux KVM Virtual Machines

To use OVMF/AAVMF for EFI add these parameters to qemu-system-*. Normally you can find OVMF_CODE....

Updated 6 months ago by dustin@swigg.net

Test Authentication

Git

ssh -T git@gitea.swigg.net source

Updated 6 months ago by dustin@swigg.net

Strip Debug

Linux Building the Kernel

When Kernel modules are built they often contain debug information. This creates modules with sub...

Updated 6 months ago by dustin@swigg.net

Serial Only

Linux KVM Virtual Machines

AMD64 qemu-system-x86_64 ... -nographic -append "root=/dev/vda rw console=ttyS0" -hda rootfs.img ...

Updated 6 months ago by dustin@swigg.net

Direct Boot Kernel

Linux KVM Virtual Machines

Provide path to Kernel and optionally initrd qemu-system-aarch64 ... -kernel /boot/vmlinuz-6.9.0-...

Updated 6 months ago by dustin@swigg.net

Mount QCOW2

Linux KVM Virtual Machines

Load Kernel module modprobe nbd Connect the image to NBD (Network Block Device) device and then ...

Updated 6 months ago by dustin@swigg.net

Generate Random MAC address

Networking

printf '00:60:2f:%02x:%02x:%02x\n' $[RANDOM%256] $[RANDOM%256] $[RANDOM%256]

Updated 6 months ago by dustin@swigg.net

Connect Without StrictHostKeyChecking (known_hosts)

SSH

Connects to a host without validating the host key using ~/.ssh/known_hosts or adding the key to ...

Updated 7 months ago by dustin@swigg.net

Storage & Backups

blackbox Host Configuration

Create Storage Pools Although my current setup has changed over time I currently settled on the s...

Updated 1 year ago by dustin@swigg.net

Network Storage

Linux

iSCSI Internet Small Computer Systems Interface or iSCSI (/aɪˈskʌzi/ i eye-SKUZ-ee) is an Intern...

Updated 1 year ago by dustin@swigg.net

Reboot

Linux

Really Force Reboot I've had to do this when the ZFS kernel module has a problem that was prevent...

Updated 1 year ago by dustin@swigg.net

Linux Unified Key Setup (LUKS)

Linux

I messed up editing this page and some of the information is missing and in the wrong order. All ...

Updated 1 year ago by dustin@swigg.net

MasterBedroom Devices

HomeAssistant Devices

Aqara Motion Sensor MasterBedroom Entry MotionSens...

Updated 1 year ago by dustin@swigg.net