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Linux RAID Devices

To list disk

parted -l |grep sd #sd-scsi disks

Use in command line

parted parted /dev/sdb print

Creating a raid5

mdadm -Cv /dev/md0 --level=5 -n3 /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdc1 /dev/sdd1 mdadm --detail /dev/md0

Use the command below to create a copy of the partition of an existing disk then format then use mdadm --add to the array.

sfdisk -d /dev/ |sfdisk /dev/ Example: sfdisk -d /dev/sda | sfdisk /dev/sdb

Fail a disk

mdadm /dev/md0 -f /dev/sdb1

Remove a disk

mdadm /dev/md0 -r /dev/sdb1

Add a disk

mdadm /dev/md0 -a /dev/sdb1

Stopping md

mdadm --stop /dev/md0 

Start md

mdadm --assemble --scan

Saving mdadm config

echo 'DEVICE /dev/sd*' > /etc/mdadm.conf mdadm --detail --scan >> /etc/mdadm.conf

Removing array

mdadm -S /dev/md0 >> stop md mdadm --zero-superblock /dev/sdb1 mdadm --zero-superblock /dev/sdc1

Creating RAID 0

mdadm -Cv /dev/md0 --level=0 -n2 /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdc1

Creating RAID 1

mdadm -Cv /dev/md0 --level=1 -n2 /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdc1

Creating RAID 5

mdadm -Cv /dev/md0 --level=5 -n3 /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdc1 /dev/sdd1 --spare-disk=1 /dev/sde1 

 

 

Enable Wifi Dongle in Raspberrypi OSMC

Go to the command line interface of OSMC. Click the Power Icon. Select Exit, wait for the OSMC logo then press ESC.
Use username: osmc password: osmc

 Run the following Command:

 connmanctl  
 technologies  
 enable wifi  
 scan wifi  
 agent on  
 services  
 connect wifi_xxxxx #it will be a long string, hit tab for completion  

ref: https://osmc.tv/help/wiki/console
      https://discourse.osmc.tv/t/enable-wifi-under-gui/430/6

How to get the last IP address on the Subnet using Ruby

 >> require 'ipaddr'  
 >> ip=IPAddr.new("192.168.1.0/24")  
 => #<IPAddr: IPv4:192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0>  
 >> gateway=IPAddr.new(ip.to_range.last.to_i-1,ip.family).to_s  
 => "192.168.1.254"  
 >> ip=IPAddr.new("192.168.1.0/20")  
 => #<IPAddr: IPv4:192.168.0.0/255.255.240.0>  
 >> gateway=IPAddr.new(ip.to_range.last.to_i-1,ip.family).to_s  
 => "192.168.15.254"  

KVM Commands

To install with prompt

 virt-install --prompt  

List virtual machine

 virsh list 

Stop virtual machine

 virsh destroy

Configure VM autostart

 virsh autostart

Unconfigure VM autostart

 virsh autostart --disable

To install using kickstart

 virt-install --name=rhel03.localdomain -r 768 --disk path=/var/lib/libvirt/images/rhel03.localdomain.img,size=8 -l http://192.168.122.1/pub/inst -x "ks=http://192.168.122.1/pub/ks/rhel03.cfg"

To create VM snapshot

 virsh save centos01 centos01.snap.$(date +%y%m%d)

To restore VM snapshot

 virsh shutdown centos01  
 virsh restore centos01.snap  

Clone vm

 virt-clone --original centos01 --name centos02 --file /home/penoycentral/images/centos02.img  

Troubleshooting KVM

Error when starting the VM snapshot
error restoring domain unable to read from monitor


To fix

 virsh managedsave-remove domain-name  

Raspoison

This is an old blog entry but hopefully still relevant to some. Setting up a web kiosk system using raspberrypi+raspbian+ratpoison.This instruction assumes that you already installed raspbian on your SD card

sudo apt-get update  
sudo apt-get ratpoison  
sudo apt-get chromium  
sudo apt-get x11vnc  
sudo apt-get install x11-xserver-utils  

Start user pi at startup

 pi@raspberrypi:~$ grep pi /etc/inittab   
 1:2345:respawn:/bin/login -f pi tty1 /dev/tty1 2>&1  
 pi@raspberrypi:~$ cat /home/pi/.bash_profile   
 if [ -z "$DISPLAY" ] && [ $(tty) == /dev/tty1 ]; then  
 startx  
 fi  

Set ratpoison's config file

 pi@raspberrypi:~$ cat /home/pi/.xinitrc  
 exec ratpoison  
 pi@raspberrypi:~$ cat /home/pi/.ratpoisonrc  
 banish  
 exec xset s off  
 exec xset -dpms  
 exec unclutter -root  
 exec x11vnc -loop  
 exec /usr/bin/chromium --kiosk http://www.penoycentral.net  

Remotely connec thru vnc

 vncviewer raspberrypi.local  

You can try to test my Puppet module from github

Simulation Lab

Simulation lab

Host:

Toshiba Laptop

Processor: Intel Corei7

Memory: 16G

Harddisk: Samsung SSD 256Gb

Operating System: Windows 8

Virtual Machine Software: VMware Workstation 9

Virtual Machines

pfsense : Nat Firewall/VPN

spacewalk: yum repository

Foreman: Configuration management

Centos1: host 1

Spacewak

Channel sync

spacewalk-repo-sync --channel lab-local-centos-66

ref:
http://www.itzgeek.com/how-tos/linux/centos-how-tos/configuring-spacewalk-upoading-content-on-spacewalk-in-centos-6-rhel-6.html

 http://www.thenoccave.com/2012/03/29/install-spacewalk-client-on-centos-6/