Entries written in November 2008

Written November 26, 2008 in apple

Last night, the ‘e’ key on my Mac Book Pro 15″ (Core Duo 2.2 ghz) broke. The little pivot on the bottom cracked. I don’t have a problem with it having broken, I have a problem with getting the consulting work I need to do this weekend done without an …

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Written November 16, 2008 in sysadmin

After a weekend of trying everything from cable problems to firmware problems, it turns out that no matter what, the on-board raid controller in a Dell Power Edge 1650 cannot initialize as a container a drive over 1 TB in size.

And suddenly, it makes sense why my otherwise non-paranoid …

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Written November 6, 2008 in linux, sysadmin

With ocfs2-tools and tunefs / tunefs.ocfs2 / fsck / fsck.ocfs2 >= version 1.2.6 … If you get an error message that’s something like “could not create domain while initializing the dlm” — double check that *all* of your nodes are down. We had a virtual machine that had hung on …

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