The problem / error: When doing an rsync over ssh file transfer I get this error. # rsync -avhP -e "ssh -p 22 -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null" file root@someserver.com:file Warning: Permanently added '[root@someserver.com]:22,[24.155.888.155]:2022'Read More…

(I) Scrub: going thru the raid checking parity and correcting things. There are 2 types. check or repair. *check just reads everything and doesn’t trigger any writes unless a read error isRead More…

Watching samba locks script: smbstatus -L | head -n 2 | tail -n 1 | nl -v0; smbstatus -L | tail -n -3 | grep . | nl; # loop the commandRead More…

Let say you want to change the homehost and/or the name of a raid, for whatever reason. (one reason might be that you changed your system and so you want to matchRead More…

Problem: If you get this warning/error when you run the ssh command: $ ssh infotinks@192.168.0.100 @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ @ WARNING: REMOTE HOST IDENTIFICATION HAS CHANGED! @ @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ IT IS POSSIBLE THAT SOMEONE IS DOINGRead More…

Mounting a BTRFS filesystem thats made of 2 devices. For example my data volume is made of md125 and md124 I can mount them like this usually # mount /dev/m124 /mnt orRead More…

Assumption: Assuming your using bash 4. However this will work with bash 3 as im not using anything too special. So your copying alot of things over to a remote system usingRead More…

Here we backup a linux folder /data with all of its data to a remote system. 7zip has the best compression (or some of the best), so we want to use that.Read More…

Bash comes with commands like basename (extracts filename out of a fullpath filename), and dirname (extracts the directory path out of a fullpath filename). However it doesn’t come with commands to extractRead More…

CP followed by RSYNC to copy what was missed my prefered way to copy is to just use rsync or cp. I noticed cp dies less often (less broken pipes) and whenRead More…