How to mount a USB NTFS disk on a CentOS 7 server
Identify the drive lsblk In my case, I did a lsblk before and after. Then I saw this new item: sdd
Disk Management
How to upgrade an XFS file system hosted on KVM
In our example, hosts are named host.example.com_ip_address but you might well be using a different convention. Shut down the host SSH the hypervisor Check all
Adventures in rebuilding a Intel Rapid Storage Technology enterprise Mirror on a Supermicro when one disk is problematic
An adventure with mdadm on a broken hard drive A Supermicro server started acting up. The problem was evident on startup – a lot of
VM 123 qmp command ‘block_resize’ failed – iSCSI: failed to send readcapacity10/16 command (500)
Whilst trying to enlarge a Proxmox VE iSCSI TrueNAS attached disk to a PBS server, you might encounter the following problem: VM 123 qmp command
I/O error, dev sda, Remounting filesystem read-only on TrueNAS iSCSI share after enlarging disk using Proxmox
In Proxmox VM you can enlarge you disk quite easily using the user interface. This is typically a fail-safe operation. However, during routine maintenance to
TrueNAS Scale / Proxmox / iSCSI Primer
Introduction Changes On 4 June 2024 this article was updated to provide more information with regards to running TrueNAS scale as a VM, and also
How to mount a USB disk on FreeBSD
You can see your da-devices by # ls /dev/da* If you see e.g. /dev/da0s1 listed, try mounting with # mount_msdosfs /dev/da0s1 /media/usb If you have set up sudo correctly you can
How to make a downloaded ISO bootable on Mac OS
Introduction This article explains how to make a downloaded ISO file bootable on Mac OS. The test was was an Mac Mini M2 but in
How to mount a remote SSH disk locally with fuse
Quick guide: apt install fuse sshfs Be careful when doing this on a Proxmox server because you’ll get an ominous warning. mkdir ~/ssh_mount Mount the
How to determine the iops on a disk
Here is a quick primer and script to determine the iops on a disk. You can use the iostat utility but you have to first