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Would SSD drives benefit from a non-default allocation unit size?

The default allocation unit size recommended when formatting a drive in our current set-up is 4096 bytes. I understand the basics of the pros and cons of larger and smaller sizes (performance boost vs. space preservation) but it seems the benefits…
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ansible manipulate file with a date format

In ansible, I would like to manipulate files/directories/archive that are composed or to composed like this: How would I do that. It seem Ansible is not able to handler that. (I doubt). So, what I do wrong ? Ex: - name: create file with a date in…
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Server 2012 Core (no GUI) - How to manage disks?

I am working on Server 2012 which doesn't have a GUI. For now, I have two hard disks. My first one is already formatted and I see it as C: Now, I'd like to format my second hard drive and create a D: partition. Are there any ideas how could I…
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Which tar file format should I use?

tar can create the archive in different formats. GNU tar, ustar, pax, v7. What would be the best for long time archiving? Is there significant differencies in these formats? I would use the best format for general backups, and I don't want that…
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Which archive/compression format?

Zip, Rar, 7z, Gzip, BZip2, Tar etc. I'm hearing 7z is the flavor of the month, why? Is it best for all situations or are there better choices for specific situations. Or maybe the actual file archiver ie WinZip, WinRar, 7Zip etc (as opposed the…
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Parseable NGINX accesslog files with delimiters

The default NGINX format is this: log_format combined '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local] ' '"$request" $status $body_bytes_sent ' '"$http_referer" "$http_user_agent"'; Which is a bit hard to parse. I am…
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Is there a way to determine the log format if given a ".log" file?

Is there a way to determine the kind of log (so that it can be parse correctly) if I have no prior information about the type (for eg. syslog, apache log, IIS log) of log it is? I am trying to write a Grok filter for the logs but I have no idea what…
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Possible to reformat and reinstall OS on server via the console management server?

If one has access to a console server providing serial port access to a server, is it possible to reformat and re-install an OS on the server remotely? Note that creating partitions under the existing OS and booting from an alternate partition is…
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How to format a partition under FreeBSD

I want to format a partition under FreeBSD and change it to UFS filesystem. I searched the web but even the "fdisk" man page is not clear at all. Any help would be clearly appreciated ! My current partition is : fdisk /dev/da0 ******* Working on…
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bind: dns_master_load: file format mismatch

I have set a slave DNS server for myzone.info domain. After reloading bind 9.9.5 on Ubuntu, syslog gives the following messages: Jul 13 17:12:14 dns2 named[18599]: dns_master_load: file format mismatch Jul 13 17:12:14 dns2 named[18599]: zone…
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Disk not shown in Solaris 11.1 format tool

I have a Sun Fire T2000 with up-to-date firmware, running Solaris 11.1. I have inserted two SEAGATE-ST914602SSUN146G-0400-136.73GB HDDs in bays 2 and 3. Both drives show OK in the ALOM and are visible to raidctl. However, the disk in bay 2 does not…
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Help with formatting C:\ drive on Dell Inspiron E1505

I have a Dell Inspiron E1505 which I formatted recently to install Mac OSX. Basically this is what I have done: Formatted the c:\ drive creating a separate partition of about 50 GB ( out of 80 GB..so my C:\ is now 30GB and the new drive M:\ is…
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IIS w3c logfile order of the different fields?

I have a W3C logfile of IIS access log. I can't find out what the numbers mean: 2012-10-25 19:18:00 10.234.150.43 GET /status.aspx - 8080 - 10.0.0.1 - 200 0 0 0 Of course some of the fields are clear, but what do the three zero's at the end stand…
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How can I create a bootable USB ISO stick without formatting the stick

I know that there are many well-known methods for creating a bootable USB stick, but all these alternatives needs to format the USB stick. What I'm looking for is some alternative method to create an USB bootable stick without the need of formatting…
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quickly empty a Linux partition

I want to empty out all the data on a partition. What is the quickest way to do this? It is an Amazon EBS volume if that matters.
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