Adventures in F,O, X, & 0

Mondorestore ate my disk space, dd over nc didn't progress, Convertor coldboot needed more RAM and clonezilla hung on choosing graphics. Trying another source "testbox" now, but boy this is getting annoying (cpio over ssh is the newest bright idea. It's all a bit too hard ;-(

Spacemonger - the classic old v1.x - has been an essential tool for me for years, chasing serverspace on MS Windows. I've just discovered "ncdu" which is just as handy for chasing diskspace on Linux servers over ssh. Wonderfully fast and intuitive!

Disk space was rapidly disappearing so I plugged another 40GB in. Fairly simple, but had to google about to figure out the UUID business. I mounted it under /var/lib/mysql initially as that's where the growth is, but have now re-jigged it to do all of /var, which is a more standard approach Used cp -p to copy the files across.

It's going to be interesting to see what impact this has on my filtering gateway box. Must admit that I'm dreading striking some system that refused to resend... However, I need the extra blocking power because my Worst Case chap is getting 10 a day :-(

Thought I might share some thoughts on a little acronym that I came up with. I find it a useful substitute for: Free Software, Open Source, FOSS or FLOSS. FOX0 ? F - freedom, choice, control. The ability to use your hardware, software and data any way you wish. O - Open source, standards, formats, processes X - Unix: the philosophy, culture, tools used in AIX, BSD, Linux etc 0 - Zero cost; important in ensuring equal access for students, the poor and those needing many copies There are already too many acronyms bandied about in this area, so I suggest that if you find this useful then do as I do - treat it as a "hidden list" of areas to cover when discussing Linux or Open Source with those that "don't get it" yet. Just as many speakers find a simple list of headings to be all the notes they need, I'm sure that most of those that *do* "get it" would gave very little problem expanding for five minutes on each of F - O - X and 0 Hope it...

Have been having some "fun" bash scripting with awk to track down PTR-less legit mailservers. Hopefully I can put that to rest this week and move onto a proper backup strategy. Tentative plan is to use bacula and rsync to replicate to a sub-dir on the development box--and add a script to allow that box to "become" the master in case of a meltdown. I need to check that sa-update is working (Signing issues?), and that AV is working too.