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Archive for February, 2008

Getting the Source

Sunday, February 17th, 2008 Posted in Linux | No Comments »

There seem to be more and more people wanting to get their hands on the CentOS source rpms for various reasons. Some are looking to see the secret options used in the CentOS brew. Others are looking to make modifications, ...

reboot on kernel panic

Monday, February 11th, 2008 Posted in Linux | No Comments »

It's quite inconvenient to have to drive all the way back to a datacenter to reboot a server which has had a kernel panic. In some places you can remotely reboot these systems via ip console or other means. ...

Large Filesystem Creation

Monday, February 11th, 2008 Posted in Linux | No Comments »

This post will be reasonably short, since there's not really that much detail to get into. What we're talking about here is large filesystem support, and the related limitations. Using the standard MSDOS disk label (the default for nearly every ...