Torrenting isn’t as big deal as it once used to be. Many vendors provide their big file downloads via Torrents. Why? I thought only pirates operate the Torrent seas? Not true. TorrentsRead More…
BTRFS – Mass Turning off COW – Uncow.py Copy Paste Script – Recursively Uncow.py everything
USE AT YOUR OWN RISK – HAVE A BACKUP PRIOR TO RUNNING Sometimes you dont want COW, because COW is copy on write and causes fragmentation where there are alot of readsRead More…
UNRAR123 – UNRAR Recursively – my unrar tools – good for downloads of rars (works with split volumes)
SCRIPTS TO EXTRACT AND ORGANIZE YOUR RAR FILES ############################################# ############################################# UPDATE 04-28-2015: latest scripts for unrar (and also unzip version) located over here: unrar123 & unzip scripts Good if you torrent. NotRead More…
Linux – RAM phases/states – Virtual and Commit as well – ATOP – SLAB/SLUB/SLOB
Intro Researching what is vmcom and vmlim from atop output, led me to research more interesting info on RAM and I learned alot. I want to include the interesting excerpts that IRead More…
NOTE TO SELF: bash – shift & colors
Interesting way to use colors (an easy way) in bash. And a cool way to use shift. This is from a script that I found online that install GNS3 and vpcs andRead More…
BASH – awk & paste – joining lines – every other – join 3 lines repeat – every 4 lines repeat
UPDATE: I have another article on this topic called PASTE primer. Which covers the simplest way to join any number of lines without AWK or SED which is much easier. …Joining Lines… ImagineRead More…
sshrc – ssh login script to log client connection information – monitor ssh logins – sshconn.log
Here I show you how to setup a MOTD to show some text upon any type of login. With the extra benefit of showing system information upon ssh connections (and loggin sshRead More…
Sqlite3 pretty output – header & columns
Sqlite3 pretty output ################# Lets make pretty sqlite output, or else it will look like below unpretty. NOTE: here pretty means, how cool something looks and how easy it is to readRead More…
Readynas all versions – Change Password from Command line
Have to get through with the disclaimer before continuing: Do not void your warranty, please understand that SSH access can void your warranty. Im not responsible for any damages that might occur.Read More…
BTRFS cant mount Read/Write because Full or Out of Space issues – 2 problems
There are 2 different problems here, and each has different mechanics and different fixes. #1. when the volume is actually full and reports 100% usage (in df) – error message below in redRead More…