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Linux Logical Volume Manager (LVM) Deep Dive Tutorial
LVM, short for Logical Volume Manager, is awesome – and it doesn’t seem to get the attention it deserves. In this one-shot tutorial, I’ll show you why you should care about LVM, how to get started, some of the commands you can use to manage it, and more. You’ll even learn how to use it to take snapshots of your system!
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Building a Low Energy Virtualization Server for Your Office/Homelab with Proxmox
Following up on my low-energy FreeNAS build, here’s another server build – this time for virtualization. In this video, you’ll see the process of building a low-energy Proxmox server, and just like the last build – this one uses only around 55 watts!
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Building a Low Energy Storage Server for your Office/Homelab
Saving power in your homelab can be a very important factor in your build. In this video, you’ll see the process of building a lower energy storage server, that uses only around 55 watts! FreeNAS is shown as an example, but other NAS platforms can be used as well.
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Building a Raspberry-Pi Storage Server with OpenMediaVault
This video is the first of several low-energy server ideas I’ll be showing off. This time around, we explore the setup of a storage server, but on a Raspberry Pi. This will greatly decrease power-usage. OpenMediaVault will be installed on the Raspberry Pi, and you’ll see the entire process in this video.
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How to Install Arch Linux on LVM
In this video, the viewer is shown how to create a custom installation of Arch Linux with EFI, LVM, and Encryption.
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Launching Ubuntu instances with Multipass
Multipass is an awesome utility that allows you to quickly create Ubuntu virtual machine instances for testing. In this video, I show how to install and use it.
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Site Redesign in Progress
I just wanted to let everyone know that a site redesign is in progress. It’s not going to look extremely different, and some may not notice any difference at all. I’m just adding small improvements and changes, so nothing Earth-shattering. The biggest change is that there is a different menu structure, that makes it easy to get back to the content. More smaller and incremental changes are incoming, so pardon any dust.
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Backing Up your SD Card with Linux
In this video, the viewer is shown several varations of the dd command for backing up an SD card.
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Getting Started with tmux Part 2 – Horizontal and Vertical Panes
Welcome to my brand-new refreshed tmux series! tmux enables to to greatly enhance your terminal workflow and efficiency. In the second video, I show off the process of splitting your terminal window into multiple panes (splits) so you can multitask and have multiple things running concurrently in the same window.
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Getting Started with tmux Part 1 – Overview and Features
Welcome to my brand-new refreshed tmux series! tmux enables to to greatly enhance your terminal workflow and efficiency. In this video, I show off some of the various features.
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Getting Started with tmux Part 5 – Customization and Tweaks
Welcome to my brand-new refreshed tmux series! tmux enables to to greatly enhance your terminal workflow and efficiency. In the final video in this series, I show some neat tmux tweaks and customizations to make the experience even more user-friendly.