It is common that the root disk space is not enough when running a Virtual Machine in the cloud such as Amazon Web Service (AWS). The cloud storage usually provides tools or facilities to enlarge a virtual disk size. However, to make the Linux recognize and and use the enlarged disks without rebooting the OS,
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How to synchronize Google Drive and Google Docs files in Ubuntu/Debian/Mint Linux using Insync
Posted onGoogle Drive is a nice cloud storage service. It provides a suite of nice online document spreadsheet and slide editors Google Docs, Google Sheets and Google Slides. The collaborative editing and full history tracking features of Google Docs are excellent. Google Drive gives 16GB free storage which is pretty much larger compared to other free
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How to make iptables/ip6tables configurations permanent across reboot on CentOS 7 Linux?
Posted onHow to make iptables/ip6tables configurations permanent across reboot on CentOS 7 Linux? CentOS 7 uses FirewallD by default. If you would like to manage iptables/ip6tables rules directly without using FirewallD, you may use the old good iptables-services service which will load the iptables/ip6tables rules saved in /etc/sysconfig/iptables and /etc/sysconfig/ip6tables when it is started during boot
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How to make Ubuntu Linux boot to text mode?
Posted onMy Ubuntu boots to GUI mode by default. How to make Ubuntu Linux boot to text mode? If you are using Ubuntu older than 16 such as Ubuntu 14.04: Edit /etc/default/grub Change GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=… to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=”text”. Backup your old grub config`$ sudo cp -n /etc/default/grub /etc/default/grub.bak-date +%s ` Update grub$ sudo update-grub If you are using
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How to transfer text messages from android to computer?
Posted onHow to transfer text messages from android phone to computer? One solution is to use the SMS Backup & Restore app. The app will backup your messages to a microSD card and then you can copy it out to a PC by connecting your Android phone to your PC with the USB cable.
How to handle missing blocks and blocks with corrupt replicas in HDFS?
Posted onOne of HDFS cluster’s hdfs dfsadmin -report reports: Under replicated blocks: 139016 Blocks with corrupt replicas: 9 Missing blocks: 0 The “Under replicated blocks” can be re-replicated automatically after some time. How to handle the missing blocks and blocks with corrupt replicas in HDFS? Understanding these blocks A block is “with corrupt replicas” in HDFS
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How to fix “Your profile could not be opened correctly.” on Linux?
Posted onI experience the program on Linux (Fedora 12) that Chrome reports “Your profile could not be opened correctly.” as follows. How to fix it? Restarting Chrome would not help. Removing the ‘Web Data’ directories from all profiles works for me (Making backup first as the commands will remove your files): cd ~/.config/google-chrome find ./ -name
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How to exclude directories with certain names from rsync on Linux?
Posted onHow to exclude directories with certain names like “cache” from rsync on Linux during backup? The “cache” directory may in many different paths, such as file1/cache/ or file2/cache/, and adding all “cache” directories to rsync command is not a doable way. You can use rsync with –exclude=cache/ like rsync -avxP –exclude=cache/ /path/to/src/directory/ /path/to/dst/dir/
How to add a new HDFS NameNode metadata directory to an existing cluster?
Posted onWe have a running HDFS cluster. Currently, the NameNode metadata data directory has only one directory configured in hdfs-site.xml: <property> <name>dfs.namenode.name.dir</name> <value>file:///home/hadoop/hdfs/</value> <description>NameNode directory for namespace and transaction logs storage.</description> </property> We would like to add a new directory for dfs.namenode.name.dir to make replicas of the metadata on a separated disk for higher data reliability.
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How to back up emails from the email server?
Posted onofflineimap actually does “synchronization”—if an email is deleted from the server, the email will be deleted from the local Maildir (http://offlineimap.org). This is good for mail sync. However, for backing up emails,one would like to keep the email even if it is deleted from the server. How to achieve this? You may use `getmail` which
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How to backup iPhone on Linux?
Posted onHow to backup iPhone on Linux? Not using iTunes or Windows. You can backup iPhone using libimobiledevice. By the time I replied here, it supports up to iOS 7. Please check this post for a tutorial. Actually, the methods introduced can be used on Linux systems with the libimobiledevice installed. Backup iPhone: idevicebackup2 backup ~/iPhoneBackups/
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How to adjust the system partition (C:) size of Windows?
Posted onThe disk management tools of Windows can adjust it to some level. But there are more space available as far as I can tell. How to further adjust the system partition (C:) size of Windows? You may check these tools: EASEUS Partition Master (free) Includes Partition Manager, Disk & Partition Copy Wizard and Partition Recovery
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How to export and import message filters of Thunderbird
Posted onI have several installation of Thunderbird under Linux to check/send emails using IMAP email servers. I use filters extensively to manage my emails. How to export and import message filters of Thunderbird so that I can synchronize the rules on several installations? About message filters in Thunderbird (More at http://kb.mozillazine.org/Filters_(Thunderbird)): Filters are account specific, there
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How to back up a complete IMAP account?
Posted onI have a large IMAP email account which contains many emails in a rich structure of directories. How to back up the whole IMAP account to my local computer? The requirements: Automatically downloading these files. There are many directories, and copying-pasting emails will take too much time. Keep the directory structures which are used to
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How to reset the Disqus WordPress plugin installation
Posted onHow to reset the Disqus WordPress plugin installation? After deactivating/activating the Disqus WordPress plugin, the ID and others are the same as the old ones. What I need is to change the Disqus forum ID for a WordPress installation. Find all the tuples in the _option table of WordPress that contains “disqus” and delete them.
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How to repair tables database by backup
Posted onHow to repair tables database by backup Is this possible? Please explain how to repair. and thanks This post may help: https://www.systutorials.com/qa/300/how-to-repair-a-mysql-table thanks dear Zhiqiang Ma
Where are the backup files of my iPhone by iTune and how to get the real files from them?
Posted onI backup my iPhone with iTune to my local computer. Where can I find out the backup files of my iPhone by iTune? And how to get the real files (like songs, notes, etc.) from the backup files? The location of the backup files from iTune It depends on the computer’s operating system: Mac: ~/Library/Application
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Gnome: disabling / deleting keyrings
Posted onHow to disable/delete the current keyrings on gnome? If the Gnome keyrings are not needed, or we forget the password, we can disable/delete the current keyrings. The keyrings are stored under ~/.gnome2/keyrings/ To disabled or delete current keyrings, we can simply delete this folder: rm -rf ~/.gnome2/keyrings/ Remember to backup this directory if you still
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How to convert Managed Solution into Unmanaged for On-Premise CRM organisation?
Posted onSolution is very important part of Dynamics CRM. In order to deploy your customization, solution is the only bridge which help you to achieve your goal. There are two types of solutions available in CRM: Managed and Unmanaged. Managed Solutions: This is the solutions that you can import and publish only. You neither export it nor you can
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How to Regenerate Grub2 Config Files on Linux
Posted onGrub2 config file may need to be re-generated after changing Grub2 configurations such as configuration changes and setting default boot entries. The Grub2’s config file may be at different locations depending on your Linux distro and whether your Linux is booted in BIOS or UEFI mode. This makes regenerating Grub2 config file not easy for
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