Category Archives: system

XFS: corruption of in-memory

Posted on 2019-08-05 by

Well… one of my partitions, on a SSD, suddenly died. I’ve been building packages in a virtual machine (VB 5.2.28 r130011) of Slackware 14.2 x86_64. All was going fine until my desktop, the host machine, completely froze. Could not go … Continue reading →

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Syntax highlighting

Posted on 2019-08-04 by

I’ve been writing a text document, where I want to paste an excerpt of a shell script. I want to put it in a frame as a separate “figure”, referred to in the text as “Box ##”. To make it … Continue reading →

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XFS duplicate UUID

Posted on 2019-07-15 by

During my disk cloning exercises, I stumbled upon an issue when cloning a partition formatted as XFS. Cloning with dd went fine, however, when trying to mount the newly created partition in Thunar, I would get an error (sorry no … Continue reading →

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Disk cloning

Posted on 2019-07-14 by

About half a year ago, I needed more space for my ThinkPad x230 laptop. I had a 256 GB SSD, running Slackware 14.2, so I bought a new SSD of 1 TB. I did not want to go through all … Continue reading →

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Electricsheep save directory

Posted on 2019-04-19 by

I have Electricsheep installed and have selected it via XScreenSaver. However, my /home is on a SSD and I decided that maybe it is not a good idea to have the constantly evolving sheep stored in ~/.electricsheep. Therefore I looked … Continue reading →

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