September 2014
Lacie 2Big NAS
19/09/14 22:26 Filed in: Systems Administation | Devices
I purchased a Lacie 2Big NAS to act as backup storage - it was quiet and nicely designed - it fitted into a home environment. Unfortunately, the device only offered email notifications of failure - which didn’t fit well against my Nagios based monitoring approach. A bit of protocol reverse engineering and studying their released sources resulted in a Nagios plugin that could monitor the NAS’s health.
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FSCK instructions for Rasperry Pi
16/09/14 17:00 Filed in: Systems Administation
It is trivially easy to shut your Pi down incorrectly and it still seems that this has not been addressed well in the Raspberian repository. Here is a summary of http://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=64843 which describes how to fix the dreaded:
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FAT-fs (mmcblk0p1): Volume was not properly unmounted. Some data may be corrupt. Please run fsck.
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Tronixlabs DS321 hardware clock config for Rasperberry Pi
02/09/14 11:34 Filed in: Electronics | Devices
For various reasons I need to make a Raspberry Pi into an NTP time server and for this to work I need time to be roughly right when it starts. hence we need to add an RTC to the Raspberry Pi running Raspberian.
Tronixlabs supplies a very nice module (http://tronixlabs.com/raspberry-pi/real-time-clock/ds321-real-time-clock-module-for-raspberry-pi/) but the instructions are a little less than optimal.
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Tronixlabs supplies a very nice module (http://tronixlabs.com/raspberry-pi/real-time-clock/ds321-real-time-clock-module-for-raspberry-pi/) but the instructions are a little less than optimal.
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