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Remounting Active NFS Filesystems

January 23, 2013 – 12:57 pm
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Here’s a scenario: you have an NFS client mounting a filesystem from server1. You need to migrate this data to NFS server2 and remount the filesystem from the client to point to the new server. The problem is that there is a user application on the client system that uses the NFS mount, preventing you from unmounting it.

Uninstall PostgreSQL from Ubuntu

January 4, 2013 – 1:22 pm
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Ok, so this is a very simple one: uninstall PostgreSQL running on Ubuntu. There are a bunch of pieces to the database server and just running “apt-get remove postgresql” will still leave you with with a bunch of leftovers