I always keep forgetting how to do this properly, so this is the case:
mkvmerge -o "outputfile.mkv" inputfile1.mkv + inputfile2.mkv
Stop HDD drives waking up in mythbuntu
I wanted to have my RAID5 array to go to standby after 10 minutes of inactivity. I achieved this with:
/sbin/hdparm -S120 /dev/sd[a-i]
But my drives were waking up from their standby because I had mythtv-backend configured with UPNP support. Continue reading “Stop HDD drives waking up in mythbuntu”
SSH tunnel trough proxy in Putty
In putty enter hostname or IP address and port on Session page.
In Connection > Proxy settings enter company proxy IP and port set it as HTTP proxy.
In Connection > SSH check enable compression and version 2. Continue reading “SSH tunnel trough proxy in Putty”
Fix annoying clicking sound in (K)Ubuntu Karmic Koala
After testing new Kubuntu on my laptop I have noticed this annoying click just after sound is played. It seems that soundcard goes to sleep if it is not used to save power. To leave sound card enabled and to get rid of this sound you need to edit alsa-base.conf file.
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Grow 3TB RAID5 to 6TB with XFS in Linux
First you need to add to your RAID device /dev/md0 new hdd partition (/dev/sde1, /dev/sdf1/dev/sdg1) in this case /dev/sdg1:
mdadm --add /dev/md0 /dev/sdg1
Then you need to grow your RAID device to the new number of disks X(4,5,6):
mdadm --grow /dev/md0 --raid-devices=4