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Extending the logical var-volume
On my server, the /var-volume (in fact, the logical device /dev/vgroup/var, part of my LVM), is running slowly out of space. Therefore, I decided to extend it by 5 GB. Fortunately, with reiserfs, you can do this while the volume is mounted – at least, this is what is said in the LVM-howto. So, here’s [...]
Preparing the server’s installation
I have to admit something: I already started working on the server, but somehow, I blew it up. I don’t know what the exact problem was, but I had nothing but trouble. I decided to start all over; also, because I had read through some security guides concerning PaX and grSecurity and did not understand [...]
Reinstall the server – the project’s start
After I have been blogging about my server quite a bit, it is now finally the time to start all over. After my new client is up and running, I had some spare parts, and as already mentioned, I decided to put all of them together into a brand-new server box. Here’s the new hardware [...]
Some ideas for the server
This is mainly a “note to self”, but why don’t post it? Maybe it will help some others…. As I now have a new client and everything is save and working ok, it’s time to put the old hardware away. But today I had the idea of combining the old server hardware (which will be [...]
