Archive for category How-to
setting the from address in GNU mail
Today i’m going to address a question that comes up again and again on the various Linux help forums and mailing lists (in one form or another) : « How do i set the From address when using mail ? » Of course, « mail » in this case refers to that most basic of [...]
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.