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From the monthly archives:

August 2005

Rescaning SCSI bus for SAN disk adds

7 August 2005

This should not have been as difficult to do as it was. Simple concept, add disks and hence LUNs to the scan, and you want to use them on your host without having to umount all disks and reload the scsi driver. There’s a script to rescan the scsi bus from a website that automates [...]

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Firefox popups

3 August 2005

Just so I don’t forget, here’s how to stop Flash popups from Firefox. Type about:config into the Firefox location bar. Right-click on the page and select New and then Integer. Name it privacy.popups.disable_from_plugins Set the value to 2.

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Moving data with mirrors

3 August 2005

The main data volume on the system at work ran out of PEs due to the old default PE size of 4 MB and 64k of PEs being in the volume group. There’s no way to change that without recreating the volume group, and blowing away everything. So I have to move the 250 gigs [...]

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