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Dealing with Full Filesystems

June 25, 2013 – 11:03 am
hard drive disk

Filled up filesystems is a recurring condition eating up sysadmin time on a regular basis. Some studies show that filesystems running out of space are responsible for most day-to-day issues handled by IT departments. Disk …

Friday – Healthy Lifestyle

June 21, 2013 – 7:16 pm
Lazy-Cat

I always had a hard time explaining to non-tekkies what I do for living. Well, today I heard the best ever description of my job. You know the guy who walks behind a circus elephant with a large bag? In my case the elephants are made by HP, IBM, and EMC.

Quickly Grow EMC Celerra Filesystem

June 21, 2013 – 11:22 am
grow001

As we all know, Celerra and its kin can get a bit annoying with their “filesystem over 90%” warning emails. Enabling the “autoextend” feature for the filesystems is one option, but if you are a control …

Watch the Log

June 18, 2013 – 8:06 pm
hacker computer

In the past few days my Postfix server has been having occasional problems talking to the mail gateway. They problem would come and go. The Postfix server would timeout trying to connect to the gateway and keep …