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By Paulus, 2 October, 2022

Mounting Raw Disk Images

In this article I describe how to mount different partitions from a raw disk image.
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By Paulus, 30 September, 2022

Updating Gentoo

This guide will give you the basic outline on how to update Gentoo Linux.
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By Paulus, 4 February, 2022

Consuming Web Services

In the following, I will show how to consume web services in a few ways. For a more in-depth guide to better understanding how web services work, I recommend reading the following resources:

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By Paulus, 9 July, 2021

Borg Backup

About three years ago I wrote a post on how to setup duplicity and by that time I was using the program for about two years. Not long after I made that post I realized that it wasn't the best backup solution for me. The two biggest reasons why I ditched duplicity was first, it was slow and second it ate up a lot of disk space. The two reasons go hand-in-hand. Duplicity doesn't do any deduplication, which means if I move a directory that is 100GB, and there was only 1GB of changes to existing files, the entire backup for the day would be 101GB.

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By Paulus, 10 June, 2021

Laravel Administration Panels

One of my fiscal year goals at work is to update our starter app. When I first started I was tasked with updating the existing app from Laravel 5.1 to 5.5. That was almost four years ago. At the time I was still pretty new to Laravel and hadn't known about some of the other dependencies out there that would make my job easier, dependencies such as Orchid, Backpack, Laravel permissions, Voyager, etc. Please note that this is not a how-to guide and therefore I'm not going to go through the process of installing and setup of each project.

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By Paulus, 19 March, 2021

Drupal 8 Local Development

Prerequisites

  • Git
  • lando
    • System Requirements
    • Releases

If you're on a Mac you can install Lando via Brew. However, it's recommended that you download the PKG file from the project's github Releases page.

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By Paulus, 11 March, 2021

Composer Lock File Not Syncing

How to fix an out of sync composer.lock file when using Drupal + Lando
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By Paulus, 20 February, 2021

Repairing Corrupt Boot Partition

A guide that walks a person through rescuing a system from an unrepairable boot partition.
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By Paulus, 4 September, 2018

Adding and Removing Encryption without Data Loss

Sometimes, for whatever reason, you may want to remove the encryption from a device. Perhaps you didn't think a device needed to be encrypted initially.
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By Paulus, 2 September, 2018

Reshaping mdadm RAID 6 to RAID 10

When setting up a RAID array I have always opted for either RAID 5 for arrays with less than five drives or RAID 6 when there are more than five. It wasn't until recently that I noticed how much of a penalty there is for running a RAID 6, six IOPs while the penalty for RAID 5 is four IOPs. When a drive has failed in one of my RAID 6 arrays, I never saw the rebuild speed get above 75MiB/s even though the failed drive was capable of 150MiB/s. For smaller arrays, that may not be such a big deal. When it's a 16TiB array it will take about two and a half days to rebuild.
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