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New Linux Kernel: Couldn’t find PV pv n. Check your device.map

February 17, 2012 by admin 2 Comments

When upgrading to a new kernel on Debian this error can present itself if you have previously added an extra drive to your LVM pool without having updated the /boot/grub/device.map. The simplest way to get round this is to backup your current device.map file, delete the original and then run.. $# sudo update-grub followed by … [Read more…]

Posted in: Debian, Grub, Linux, LVM, Squeeze Tagged: Debian, device.map, kernel, Linux, LVM

Enabling file ACL’s in Debian 6 (Access control lists)

February 10, 2012 by admin Leave a Comment

I’ve been brushing up on my knowledge of Linux ACL’s this morning and thought I’d share some of the highlights with you. Those of you with a Unix or Windows Server background will be well versed with the idea of access control lists on-top of basic file permissions but it seems to be something, which … [Read more…]

Posted in: ACL, Debian, Linux, Squeeze Tagged: access control lists, acl, acls, Debian, filesystem, getfacl, Linux, permissions, setfacl, squeeze

Installing exFat on Debian based distros

February 7, 2011 by admin 9 Comments

[Edited to update the download link – Aug 2012] [Edit –  Included info on making .deb – Aug 2012] ExFat, otherwise known as FAT64 is a new filesystem introduced by Microsoft with Windows Vista SP1. The reasoning behind the new filesystem was to address an area in which Microsoft’s previous filesystems where not a neat … [Read more…]

Posted in: Debian, Linux Tagged: Debian, exFAT, Linux, SDXC

Python on Debian from sourcecode update (altinstalling development branch 3.2 rc2)

February 6, 2011 by admin Leave a Comment

Just though I’d post an update on my earlier post about installing Python 3.1.3 from source code on Debian Linux. Although I wouldn’t encourage you to use it as your main environment some of you may be interested in trying out the latest development branch of Python to test new features or to help with finding and reporting bugs. As … [Read more…]

Posted in: Debian, Linux, Programming, Python Tagged: Debian, guide, Python, Python 3.2rc2, source code, sourcecode

Installing Python 3.1.3 from source, the full works (Debian Linux 5.x lenny)

February 6, 2011 by admin 6 Comments

So previously I’d posted about getting Python 3.1 installed from source on OS X. This time I’ll be talking about installing Python 3.1.3 on Debian Linux 5.x lenny. Although this guide is specific to Debian lenny it should be applicable to other Linux distros’ based on Debian such as Ubuntu and can probably be adapted to … [Read more…]

Posted in: Debian, Linux, Programming, Python Tagged: Compile, Debian, Linux, Python, Python 3.1.3, sourcecode

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