This evening, I chose to install MySQL 5.5 instead of accepting the 5.1 version that shipped with my CentOS 6 Linux distribution. After dutifully downloading the binaries and successfully installing the RPMs, I received the following error message when starting mysqld:
Well, I have just received the RMA replacement of my failed Samsung HD204UI 2TB drive. Now it is time to put the drive back into my Linux server and rebuild the RAID-1 (mirror) array so that the data resumes its highly-available state. Here are the steps I took:
Well, I have finally taken a few minutes out of a weekend to track down the cause of an annoyance lingering in the syslog of my NAS server. A file server where I host both NFS and SMB/CIFS resources. The annoying entry in my logs was the following:
Well, I have run out of storage for backups and shared media on my home-grown Linux NAS server. My existing 1TB mirror is full. Now that 3 TB drives have started to trickle out, the 2 TB capacity devices are dropping in price. I picked up a couple of Samsung HD204UI drives 2TB drives for $80 each over at New Egg. These are the 5400 RPM drives, but that is adequate for a backup/media sharing logical volume. Be kind, my NAS server is an old Dell 600SC with a 4-port SATA card in a PCI bus slot.
I recently upgraded to Ubuntu 10.04. Immediately after starting it up, I was faced with a huge annoyance. The window title-bar buttons were on the left. Being a right-handed person, this threw me for a loop. I now understand what it is like for all of you lefties and Mac users out there.
In any event, I had to open the handy gconf-editor to rectify the situation. In order to change the window buttons orientation to my liking, I went under the apps/metacity/general path in the gconf-editor.
Well, with the release of Lucid Lynx and a lack of support from the ushare project, I am going to sacrifice the continuous uptime on my media server so that I may perform a significant operating systems upgrade, LVM reorganization, and replace ushare with fuppes.
Here is the final continuous uptime number from the server:
Well, I have just received the RMA replacement of my failed Samsung HD204UI 2TB drive. Now it is time to put the drive back into my Linux server and rebuild the RAID-1 (mirror) array so that the data resumes its highly-available state. Here are the steps I took:
the cause of an annoyance lingering in the syslog of my NAS server. A file server where I host both NFS and SMB/CIFS resources. The annoying entry in my logs was the following:
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