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Emergency

2012

Mounting an LVM snapshot containing partitions

15 July 2012·435 words·3 mins

Lessons learned in the ambulance pay dividends in the datacenter

31 May 2012·1495 words·8 mins

2011

Strategies for storing backups

10 January 2011·510 words·3 mins

2010

Mounting a raw partition file made with dd or dd_rescue in Linux

15 December 2010·361 words·2 mins

Monitor MySQL restore progress with pv

24 November 2010·250 words·2 mins

2009

Fedora 11 httpd: alloc_listener: failed to get a socket for (null)

14 August 2009·129 words·1 min

Re-scan the SCSI bus in Linux after hot-swapping a drive

23 April 2009·246 words·2 mins

Linux: emergency reboot or shutdown with magic commands

30 January 2009·416 words·2 mins

2008

Reducing inode and dentry caches to keep OOM killer at bay

4 December 2008·613 words·3 mins

ext3_dx_add_entry: Directory index full!

13 October 2008·207 words·1 min

2007

EXT3-fs error (device hda3) in start_transaction: Journal has aborted

20 November 2007·238 words·2 mins

Plesk authorization failed: HTTP request error [7]

14 November 2007·350 words·2 mins

Enforcing mode requested but no policy loaded. Halting now.

17 October 2007·97 words·1 min

Apache: No space left on device: Couldn’t create accept lock

24 August 2007·404 words·2 mins

MySQL couldn’t find log file

24 August 2007·239 words·2 mins

Qmail-smtpd spawns many processes and uses 100% of CPU

22 August 2007·241 words·2 mins

Repair auto_increment in MySQL

1 July 2007·91 words·1 min

Corrupt /dev/null

19 June 2007·107 words·1 min

Rebuild RPM file permissions and ownerships

14 June 2007·63 words·1 min

rpmdb: Lock table is out of available locker entries

27 May 2007·159 words·1 min