aaron

Linux Software RAID and LVM

I wanted to create a RAID 5 array with four 1tb drives. I only have three, but I have a 750gb and 320gb drive lying around. I figured there was probably a way to combine them into a 1tb drive that I could use with the others. Using Linux’s LVM, I can create a logical partition from the two smaller drives as big as the 1tb drive. $ pvdisplay Lists all physical volumes managed by LVM. First we have...

aaron

System information from linux command line

I was just reading this webpage about shell scripting, and discovered that you can get a lot of information about your cpu and memory from the command line. Return details about your processor: # cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family : 6 model : 8 model name : AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2700+ stepping : 1 cpu MHz : 2164.892 cache size ...