Category: NZTekonverse -> Storage
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Setting up a second swap partition for Linux [2]
In the first post of this series several years ago, I wrote on how to add a second swap partition to increase the size of the swap space, by adding a second swap entry to the fstab file. This is very much the simplest way of increasing the swap space by using multiple disks, if…
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Managing Web Map tiles on a Debian computer, and other Webmap technical complexities
Webmaps are a great tool for everyday use to view a map in a browser, and they are getting a lot of use from Google Maps and Open Street Maps down. What is not really seen in these technologies is some of the challenges that have to be overcome to produce them ready to go…
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Welcome to the world of M.2 [2]
Since last month writing about M.2 SSDs several have been installed in different computers. It has been found difficult to use them as a Linux boot device so regular SSDs still do these roles in computers. On an H97 board, six SATA ports went down to four when the M.2 SSD was installed, whereas on…
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Welcome to the world of M.2
M.2 is a standard for SSDs (Solid State Disks). As everyone knows, SSDs are starting to replace hard drives and have the advantage of much faster performance. They come in a number of different form factors and one of the first available was the same as the existing hard drives for laptops and using the…
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Rsync Backup System [7]: Current System
So it has proved desirable to return to making backups from a remote server connected over a network. This is currently a separate computer in our setup of computers, but we plan to integrate it into one of the existing computers (the one that is used mainly to play media) since we have determined the…