Archive for June, 2009
force disk geometry with sfdisk
Hello again ! This is a quick and dirty update which covers a handy little trick when dealing with writeable removable media – especially USB drives, compact flash cards, and the like. I end up using a lot of USB keys in my environment for a variety of reasons, not the least of which is [...]
pohmelfs – the network filesystem of the future !
Hello again fair readers ! Today we’re going to take a look at POHMELFS, which is a network file system that was just recently integrated into the Linux kernel. This is an excellent exercise for three reasons : we’ll learn about some great new concepts related to network file systems, we get to compile and [...]
initrd, modules, and tools
An explanation of initrd, how modules live within it, and an example of how it can be modified on a Fedora-based system. Contains supplementary information about gzip, tar, and cpio.
how to be properly lazy, with perl !
Posted by dan in Code, Commentary on 2009/06/12
One of the wonderful things about Perl is that it enables the busy System Administrator to be lazy – and that’s a good thing ! Of course, i don’t mean lazy as in unmotivated, or possesed of a poor work ethic, i mean it in the sense that Perl lets us do as little work [...]
perl, regex
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