Tag: linux

  • Running Multiple Linux Commands in One Line

    Since I’m constantly standing up Linux virtual machines and containers – almost always of the apt variety, I’m constantly typing in: Then hitting enter again to allow whatever installation is needed to proceed. I’ve noticed in some of the commands I’ve been pasting in from installation instructions or StackExchange solutions have been separated by characters…

  • Linux on HP Mini 110

    I’ve been furthering my Linux education by playing with some desktop distros in VMs, but it’s not a great experience accessing them through the Proxmox web GUI. The alternative to this is to use a good SPICE client on the remote desktop, but there is not a simple good solution for this for MacOS. I’ve…

  • Recursively Deleting Files in Linux

    I’ve been using this rsync command to backup files from my NAS to a USB drive. The –excludes are to avoid copying over some junk hidden files – some created by MacOS and some by Synology. The .DS_Store files seem to be dropped by MacOS every time I view a directory on the NAS from…

  • Using NAS for Proxmox backups

    A few weeks ago, I was very excited to be able to take a snapshot of a virtual machine, copy it across the network from that Proxmox node, copy it back across the network to a different Proxmox node, start it there, and have it up and running, without it noticing it was actually on…

  • rsync episode IV – a sudo hope

    With all those earlier rsync bumps out of the way, I was ready to try my first rsync backup at the command line to sync my movies directory on the NAS to a (NTFS formatted) USB drive plugged into the same NAS. This is to be one of the simplest since there’s no remote server…

  • rsync basics

    I’ve started down the path of improved storage management, including embracing the 3-2-1 mantra. I’ve settled on a RAID6 NAS for local, mirrored to an off-site NAS, and an offline local USB drive. While I’ve been setting those up, my services have been live, so files have been changing on my main storage, which I’ve…

  • Recursive list of files in Linux

    I’ve spent a few hours over the weekend migrating a media library from an external USB drive to the NAS, and in the process reorganised it, and in many cases bulk changed file names. I’ve also added a heap of metadata. I’d like to check that I haven’t missed any files, but a side by…

  • Could it be a permissions problem?

    Unix, and therefore Linux, was built from the ground up as a multi-user system. Thanks to this, great security is baked in, for example every file has permission attributes for it’s owner, the group the owner is a member of, and then everyone. For example, it might be a good idea if I can read,…

  • Problems mounting network share at boot

    I had Jellyfin working nicely in an LXC container in Proxmox, but could not get Tailscale working in the container. Since this is going to be an important part of accessing my media away from home, I decided it was probably worth the extra bulk to run JellyFin in a VM. Following my own instructions,…

  • Sudoers’ file not working

    A couple of weeks ago, I posted about the sudoers’ file, and how there was a special tool for editing it since breaking it is a bad idea, and that in fact I needn’t bother, since I can just add my user to the sudoers’ group with: That worked (on Unbuntu) since /etc/sudoers contained a…