Monthly Archives: December 2010

Upgrading to Ubuntu 10.10 caused my HDPVR ir blaster to stop working, again… I had to re-figure out how I got it working int he first place, so I figured I’d write it down this time. Ubuntu 10.10 comes with … Continue reading →

To move a subversion repository just dump the repository. Here is a little script to dump all /var/svn repositories to their own portable dump.gz file: #!/usr/bin/perl ## backup each repository in /var/svn to a file dirname.svn.dmp.gz ## and push to … Continue reading →

NOTE: This can only be done on filesystems that can be unmounted. (i.e. You can’t do it on /root unless you boot from a rescue CD ) First unmount the file system umount /big1 Next, convert ext3 –> ext2 filesystem … Continue reading →