I imagined it would be easy enough, obviously with it being fairly new hardware there might be some driver issues in Ubuntu, and once an idea dawned on me dual booting ubuntu and windows 7 on the m11x was easy. … Continue reading
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In preparation for getting my Tranquil PC BBS2, on which I plan to install Ubuntu server on the “OS disk” and have initially two 1TB drives in Raid1 configuration and add an additional 2 later as my storage needs increase, I … Continue reading
Nice and simple: sudo apt-get install acpid
I know this will apply to various linux distros, but continuing the theme of blogs about installing Ubuntu Server on my BBS2, I give you some Top hints for some Top utilities on the command line. top – You most … Continue reading
So I had a bit of experimentation with the BBS2. I had purchased the storage drives (2x Samsung HD103UJ SpinPoint F 1TB Hard Drive) but had decided that I did not want the OS to be installed on the raid. … Continue reading
Following on from my article on Setting up and Managing Raid1 on Ubuntu Server, I have been testing the raid using a VirtualBox VM. Today, I took the VM, consisting of an OS drive (with Ubuntu Server installed) and 2 drives … Continue reading
Nice and simple: mdadm –stop /dev/md0 mdadm –remove /dev/md0 mdadm –zero-superblock /dev/sdb1 mdadm –zero-superblock /dev/sdc1
Again, I’m using VirtualBox to test this, I have a single OS drive with Ubuntu Server (intrepid) installed. I’ve added two 2gb virtual disk to it, which will be the starting point of the Raid5. Most places on the net … Continue reading