Anyone who runs Linux servers for an extended time is bound to run into the need to expand disk space once in a while. LVM is a great tool to help with this, but, it’s the new kid on the block for partition management. If you’re dealing with a legacy Read more…
If you’re arriving at this post, clearly, things are not going well. You’ve booted up your system and wound up with some odd LVM errors (if you’ve determined that they are LVM I suppose). There’s very little definitive information out there on this problem as far as I can tell Read more…
So, a new fun problem. You log into a computer, attempt to sudo into a priveleged account and wind up with the following: [user@server ~]$ sudo su – Password: sudo: Can't open /var/run/sudo/user/0: Read-only file system [user@server ~]$ Naturally, this doesn't look good. The first thing you should do is Read more…
I recently ran into this initially horrifying and confusing problem. I logged into a Linux server to investigate a problem reported where the /tmp partition was full. A quick df -h gave me the information to confirm the report. Yes indeed, the /tmp partiition was full. This is bad news Read more…