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Creating USB Bootable file system from Linux

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Good day.  The preferred method from alot of distro’s of Linux recommend using the program unetbootin to create the USB Bootable drive (from an .iso file).  However, I seem to have some bad luck with this, as it will run and create the USB bootable device, however upon trying to boot from it I only … Read more

Linux Logical Volume resize

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Resizing a logical volume under Linux is a two step process; first the logical volume itself must be resized, and then the filesystem itself resized. Contents Logical Volume resize Filesystem resize Logical Volume resize lvextend is the command to resize the logical volume. The -L option specifies the number of megabytes to resize to, or … Read more

Irssi in a chroot environment

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Here is a default set of directories etc to setup for a generic chroot.  This example, will be for irssi, so I’ll put that under /chroot/irssi .  Additionally, the /chroot should be a mounted FS (seperate Partition).  Create a User/Group for irssi, and use that too! Make the User/Group below unique.  Something which nobody else … Read more