Monthly Archives: October 2009

Remove bonded interface in OpenFiler

By jonmoore | Published: October 26, 2009
I decided to try and use NIC bonding in OpenFiler and while things seemed to go well at first, I did run into some issues over time.  I’m still in the process of testing, and I think most of the issues are “user error” and not so much problems with NIC bonding or OpenFiler itself.  [...]
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Find Text and Find/Replace Easier Than You Think in Linux

By drale | Published: October 24, 2009
How to search all files for a text string: grep -lr string ./ > results.txt -l will print only the path and file names of the matches. Search all files of a certain name for a certain string: grep -lr string ./ | grep filename Yes, do specify ./ if you are doing all directories within current. (source and more info) Find [...]
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Open Source storage server

By jonmoore | Published: October 22, 2009
This is not going to be a full review, but more a general take on things. Since moving from VMware Server to ESXi to host my virtual machines, I’ve been very interested in looking into some more of the advanced features of ESX and ESXi yet most of these require iSCSI.  I remember from a few [...]
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Installing Dropbox on Ubuntu (and others)

By jonmoore | Published: October 21, 2009
I’ve been using dropbox to sync and share files between my various computers for quite some time, and overall have been very pleased.  However, one area things are not so great… documentation for installation on Linux.  After having to reinstall on my notebook, I decided to somewhat document the hidden part of the process. After downloading [...]
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