Systems Administration Archive

Ext3 File System Limits


Last week I was trying to move a 21GB MySQL backup file from one host to another. I tried rsync first but it stopped after only 17GB was transferred. Then I compressed it with gzip, rsync’d the file to the host then attempted to decompress it but it failed again around 17GB. This seemed a little too coincidental to me so I asked Google about Linux Ext3 file… Read more »

Ubuntu Server 6.10 to 7.04 Upgrade


My personal mail and file server was my first “production” installation of Ubuntu and I’ve been very happy with it. It was a replacement for RedHat 7.2 so as you might guess this box has been a workhorse for me for a long time. I planned to turn it into a bulletproof mail server with anti spam capabilities, SSL for all inbound connections, postfix, cyrus IMAP (new for me) backed… Read more »