I had one of my computers die a short while ago. I wanted to get the data inside its disk into another computer. Using the magical and rather cheap USB2SATA I was able to connect the disk, however, the disk was part of a software mirror (md device) and had LVM on it. Gets a…
I’m not too happy about it, but we’ve tried to convince him to migrate his data to another server, or at least let us rebuild the server from scratch. It’s one of those in this link , holding few virtual machines (VServers), and it appears that the person who built it decided that the system…
As part of my voluntary actions, I manage and support Israeli Amateur Radio Committee Internet server. This machine is an old poor machine, custom made about 5-7 years ago, containing Pentium2 300MHz, and 256MB RAM. It serves few hundreds of users, and you can guess for yourself how slow and miserable this machine is. After…
