‘Linux’ Articles at Phil’s Blog

Proxmox: Shrinking disk of an LVM backed container

First, shut down the container and ensure it’s not running. List out the LVM logical volumes: Choose the disk you

Samba share permissions can be a bit fiddly. The user and group IDs which own the file on the Samba

When trying to do a command like this on a system running inside an LXC container on Proxmox: Linux

This is far easier than I thought it’d be. I had to change it to get around some blacklisting my

Presumably everyone knows what the Raspberry Pi is, by now, so I’ll not start there. You may or may not

With dd running in a terminal, open a new terminal to the server and send the USR1 signal to the

This is a really useful tip, and it has infinite uses in a *nix environment. You can pipe data over

This error can be seen in your mail client and is often caused by Courier. If you are the system

I’ve just stumbled across the Raspberry Pi (RasPi) and have spent the past 3 hours contently reading about it and

You can use ImageMagick’s convert tool to resize images on the command line in a Linux, BSD or Windows environment.