Monthly Archives: November 2009

Unable to use pvmove

By jonmoore | Published: November 24, 2009
I needed to remove a physical volume from a LVM volume group, and found this is done using the pvmove command.  However, trying to run this, resulted in an immediate, and suprising error # pvmove /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdc1 Required device-mapper target(s) not detected in your kernel After some quick google’ing I found on this list a cause, and a [...]
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Quick install of Tomcat5 on CentOS

By jonmoore | Published: November 18, 2009
At the office, we’re in the process of doing some work where we need a tomcat server.  Without having to get into things to much, I found this simple method for getting tomcat5 up and running pretty quickly.  I’m sure I’ve left out some important things, and I’m doubtful as to how production ready this [...]
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Burn ISO from command line in Linux

By jonmoore | Published: November 5, 2009
Quick and simple way of burning an ISO image from the command line in Linux.  First, find your devices with wodim, the use the cdrecord command to burn the ISO image. $ wodim --devices wodim: Overview of accessible drives (1 found) : ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 0 dev='/dev/scd0' rwrw-- : 'LITE-ON' 'DVDRW LH-20A1P' ------------------------------------------------------------------------- $ cdrecord -v dev='/dev/scd0' Download/archlinux-2009.08-netinstall-i686.iso Then, you’re done.
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Launch Google Chrome and external links with incognito mode.

By drale | Published: November 1, 2009
The instructions floating around are to place the --incognito switch (single – works fine for me) in your desktop shortcut. But sometimes you may be in an application like Tweek Deck, etc that links to webpages. These pages don’t launch in incognito if you only fix your desktop shortcut. Here is how to do both. [...]
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