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This is a short post about mounting LVM partitions when you are using a rescue CDROM or a desktop install CDROM. The whole process is only four easy steps. Boot your rescue media. This can be a CentOS, Ubuntu, Red Hat or other CDROM that gives you a console access to the server. Most newer linux […]
This post describes how to create a bit for bit copy of a Ubuntu 14.04 LTS server using tools like gddrescue and qemu from a Ubuntu Live-CD. This procedure can actually be used to create a copy of any operating system, not just Ubuntu. This could probably have been done more easily and faster using […]
This post describes how to use a CentOS 7 installation as hypervisor for a virtual machine running Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. These examples is just to show the basics on getting KVM virtualization up and running and should not be put in to production before considering the added value SElinux gives. Example 1 Since this VM […]
This is just a shot note on how to mount a Samba or Windows CIFS share as a normal linux user using the gvfs-mount command in Centos 7 or RedHat 7. Mounting a mountpoint share using the username user and password [user@host] gvfs-mount smb://username@192.168.0.200/shared-folder If the command finishes without any errors you can now access […]