Month: September 2013

LVM and RAID guide

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http://www.davelachapelle.ca/guides/ubuntu-lvm-guide/ Installing necessary tools: apt-get install lvm2 dmsetup mdadm reiserfsprogs xfsprogs Raid Setup: Please refer to some of my other guides regarding setting up various raid levels. You can, and I would highly recommend, setting up your drives in a raid configruation prior to adding them to a logical volume. By doing so, you’ll have … Read more

How do I upgrade from x86 to x64 without losing settings

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http://askubuntu.com/questions/6176/how-do-i-upgrade-from-x86-to-x64-without-losing-settings 1) Backup your /etc and /home folders (I have /home as its own partition, you may need more folders if you have any custom folders… or /var/www if you have Apache, maybe backup databases if you had any). You may use for example fsarchiver. 2) Run dpkg –get-selections > installed-software to save the list … Read more