So here is a fun one. We have a corrupted Linux disk partition within a KVM image. We want to run fsck on the root partition inside the KVM image. To do this we can mount it as a loop device losetup -vf path_to_your_image we then kpartx -av /dev/loop0 /dev/mapper now contains links to the …
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I recently looked at Digital Ocean as a possible replacement VM host as a company project and have now chosen to use them for my own personal VM. Since I am using a prepaid option the need to get some warning when my prepaid amount was due to run out became a requirement. Below is …
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Recently I needed to re-create a backuppc virtual machine from an existing one. The reason for this was to create a smaller primary partition which would take up less space on the host machine. After some searching, and I must admit rather unsuccessful searching, the solution appears to be far simpler than expected. Basically on …
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