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  • pfSense book available to everyone

    pfSense book available to everyone

    Today, Netgate made the pfSense book available for everyone for free. In the past this was a privelage to Gold-subscribers only. The book contains the complete documentation, made by Netgate with help from community supporters. This book is available in PDF and ePub version. View the news artical brought by Netgate at: https://www.netgate.com/blog/pfSense-book-available-to-everyone.html Interesting? Looking…

  • Proxmox – add SSD cache

    Proxmox – add SSD cache

    To increase the speed of your ZFS pool, you can add a SSD cache for faster access, write- and read speeds. You have to make 2 partitions, one for cache and another for log. format ssd into 2 logical partitions, type 48. For example both partitions, half the size of the SSD. fdisk /dev/sdf Show…

  • PfSense on Zotac Zbox CI327

    Some helpfull notes when installing pfSense on your Zotac Zbox CI327. Install from usb stick Preparing the drive Download pfsense image Write image to drive Known problems you can run in to. CI327 has Realtek NIC’s. For the best performance, you need to tweak some settings in the Gui: system/advance/network… CHECK Disable hardware checksum offload…

  • Installation of Autodesk Eagle 9.0.1 in Ubuntu

  • Configure proxmox email notification

    Configure proxmox email notification

    Follow the steps below to configure the Proxmox email notification. Install the authentication library: apt-get install libsasl2-modules If Gmail has 2FA enabled, go to App Passwords and generate a new password just for Proxmox Create a password file: nano /etc/postfix/sasl_passwd Insert your login details: smtp.gmail.com youremail@gmail.com:yourpassword Save the password file Create a database from the…

  • Nextcloud update php5.6 to php7.0

    Nextcloud update php5.6 to php7.0

    Add these two lines to your /etc/apt/sources.list file deb http://packages.dotdeb.org jessie all deb-src http://packages.dotdeb.org jessie all Key installation wget http://www.dotdeb.org/dotdeb.gpg cat dotdeb.gpg | apt-key add – Update apt-get update Install PHP7 apt-get install libapache2-mod-php7.0 php7.0-apcu php7.0-apcu-bc php7.0-cli php7.0-common php7.0-curl php7.0-gd php7.0-igbinary php7.0-imagick php7.0-imap php7.0-intl php7.0-json php7.0-mbstring php7.0-mcrypt php7.0-mysql php7.0-opcache php7.0-phpdbg php7.0-readline php7.0-redis php7.0-sqlite3 php7.0-xml php7.0-zip…

  • Proxmox ZFS Failed To Import Pool ‘rpool’

    boot into emergency mode (in the grub menu, hit “e”, and add ” emergency” to the end of the line starting with “linux”, then press ctrl+x) if needed, manually import your rpool in the initramfs prompt like you did in your first post (“zpool import -N rpool” followed by “exit”) enter your root password when…

  • ZFS cheat sheet

    Pool Related Commands # zpool create datapool c0t0d0 Create a basic pool named datapool # zpool create -f datapool c0t0d0 Force the creation of a pool # zpool create -m /data datapool c0t0d0 Create a pool with a different mount point than the default. # zpool create datapool raidz c3t0d0 c3t1d0 c3t2d0 Create RAID-Z vdev…

  • Proxmox Paths

    Proxmox Paths

    local-lvm (pve) /dev/pve hdd-1tb (pve) /dev/hdd-1tb synology (pve) /mnt/pve/synology

  • Proxmox – Change VM ID

    Change VMID from 100 to 302 Stop/Shutdown a VM. Login using SSH to Proxmox Machine or using Shell menu in Web Interface. Rename image directory name and image filename. root@PROXMOX01:/# cd /dev/pve root@PROXMOX01:/dev/pve# ls root swap vm-100-disk-1 root@PROXMOX01:/dev/pve# mv vm-100-disk-1 vm-302-disk-1 root@PROXMOX01:/dev/pve# ls vm-302-disk-1.qcow2

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