Mounting disk images on linux
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I sometimes create full-disk-images of USB drives or hard drives and in rare cases I have to look into them. This is how I usually do that.
Computerstuff
2022
pfSense: restore broken config
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Restoring a configuration file for pfSense when it actually stays in a boot-loop
Systemd: flushing the DNS cache
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First off I want to say, that Systemd is quite new to me and I always used the old and classic init systems like OpenRC (which is still available on Gentoo – if someone cares about that more than I do).
Systemd: slow reboot and shutdown fixed
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I’m not so into systemd systems and ever avoided systemd whenever possible, but nowadays systems without systemd are very rare. So I’m learning my lessons slowly and with some memory protection (e.g. this article). Sorry, this article is not very well formatted…
2021
Show processes that block umount
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A quick oneliner to list running processes that prevent a filesystem from being unmounted. Using
lsof or fuser for this.Win10, Grub 2 and UEFI
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I finally got my broken Grub configuration fixed. Booting Windows from Grub wasn’t very hard back in the days, but the old “version” doesn’t work with the newer UEFI-typed computers. Now… looking at it… it does not look very complicated either ;-)
2020
Forking GIT-repositories
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So this is working for me now. Keeping up-to-date with my upstream github repository.
My virtual windows machine from VirtualBox on Big Sur will not start
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A quick fix if your virtual machine will not start. As long, as you got the same configuration as me
Operating the Z-Shell
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This article is a summary of reasoniamhere.com/…/outrageously-useful-tips-to-master-your-z-shell/. The original article is from 2014 and the pages last entry is from 2015. In case the website goes down I want the important bits saved for my reading and learning pleasure 😉