27 Jul 2020
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ZFS Performance Basics: Disable atime
Disabling atime in ZFS As you remember, I decided to try ZFS on Ubuntu 20.04 last month. It’s a small server with no production load, just about powerful enough for small experiments.
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25 Jul 2020
2 minutes read
Arctic Code Vault Contributor
Arctic Code Vault Pretty cool! I noticed recently that my GitHub profile shows an interesting highlight: Arctic Code …
18 Jul 2020
3 minutes read
How to Use Watch Command With Quicker Intervals
watch ifconfig command with 0.2s interval Sometimes you need to monitor a progress of something in your Linux system - …
07 Jul 2020
6 minutes read
5 Tips for Getting More Out of the AWS CLI
Image source AWS command line interface (CLI) enables you to control your AWS environment from your local client …
03 Jul 2020
2 minutes read
Upgrading LMDE4 to the Latest Linux Kernel
Linux Kernel 5.6 in LMDE4 As you remember, I got the Linux Mint Debian Edition 4 installed on my Dell XPS laptop.
02 Jul 2020
1 minutes read
Linux Mint 20.0 Released
Linux Mint 20.0 is now available with its traditional separate releases based on different desktop environments. I have …
01 Jul 2020
1 minutes read
Free Online Training From Red Hat
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 With all the major training providers arranging free access to some of the most popular …
18 Jun 2020
2 minutes read
Getting Started With ZFS in Ubuntu 20.04
ZFS in Ubuntu 20.04 I upgraded one of the smallest servers at home office to Ubuntu 20.04 recently and realised that ZFS …
09 Jun 2020
6 minutes read
Upgrading Ubuntu 19.04 to Ubuntu 20.04
Ubuntu 20.04 It’s time to upgrade home servers, so I have finally gotten aroud to upgrading one system from Ubuntu …
30 May 2020
4 minutes read
Tmux Mouse Mode in MacOS
Text selection with mouse in tmux Excellent! I’m finally making further improvements to my tmux setup. Namely, …
How to decrypt files with Ansible Vault
ansible-vault decrypt restores an encrypted file …
Just discovered the macOS footprint command
I’ve administered Linux systems for around 25 …
How to Fix Ubuntu Packages Held Back
When trying to run do-release-upgrade on an Ubuntu …
How To Resize Filesystem with resize2fs
Quick note on filesystem resize on a typical …
macOS Tahoe
macOS Tahoe is the upcoming major release of macOS …
Centralized Bash history with timestamps
BASH is my Linux shell of choice (it’s zsh on …
Inspect filesystem operations with fs_usage in macOS
hey Unless you disable SIP, most of DTrace based …