Category: Storage
Mount and Use Google Drive on Linux Mint
Google Drive is one of the most popular cloud storage services on this planet. Here’s a quick example of how popular it is. As of 2017, over 800 million users worldwide engaged in this platform. As of 2018, this number went up to 1 billion! There’s a big chance that you’re already a fan of…
How To Manage Layered Local Storage With Stratis On RHEL 8
Stratis Is a local-management storage solution by the RedHat team introduced with RHEL 8 that enables System administrators to configure advanced storage features such as : Pool-based management Thin provisioning File system snapshots Monitoring Stratisd is the daemon behind Stratis and helps in configuring storage components under the XFS filesystem and device-mapper subsystem. At the…
Find UUID of Storage Devices in Linux
UUID is a unique identifier used in partitions to uniquely identify partitions in Linux operating systems. UUID is a property of the disk partition itself. So, if you install the hard drive containing the partitions on another Linux computer, the partitions will have the same UUID as before. So, that’s a good thing. The UUID…
Creating FAT Filesystems in Linux
The full form of FAT is File Allocation Table. It is a file system developed by Microsoft. FAT filesystem was developed for very old version of Windows operating system like DOS, Windows 98 etc. The FAT filesystem is still used today because it is supported on every operating system out there. For example, Android SD…
Configure LVM on Linux Mint
Imagine that you have a Hard Disk that requires you to resize a chosen partition. This is possible on Linux thanks to LVM. With this in mind, this article will teach you how to Configure LVM on Linux Mint. However, you can apply this tutorial to any Linux distribution. What is LVM? LVM is a…
Setup NAS Server on Raspberry Pi 3
NAS servers are really costly these days. If you don’t have that much money to spare, then you use Raspberry Pi 3 to set up a low cost NAS server very easily. In this article, I will show you how to set up a low cost NAS server using a Raspberry Pi 3. I will…
Using Docker Volumes to Share Data Between Containers and Host Computer
Docker volumes are used to persist data from a certain directory or directories of your Docker containers. So your data is not removed when the container stops or is removed. You can also share a Docker volume to many containers. Let’s talk about a scenario to find out why it’s important. Let’s say you have…
Dockerfile Volumes
When you run a Docker container, none of the data in that container is saved. What I mean is, let’s say you started a Docker container. Then you created some files and folders in a directory (let’s say /data) there. When you stop the container, all the files and folders in the /data directory will…
Install Nextcloud on FreeNAS
Nextcloud is one of the most popular open source, self-hosted cloud storage alternative. It offers a visually appealing and intuitive frontend for you to access your data remotely. You can install Nextcloud on a local server to share files among your colleagues. Or if you want to install it on a VPS as an alternative…
FreeNAS vs unRAID
FreeNAS is a trusted and robust operating system for your Network Attached Storage (NAS). The company behind it, iXsystems, has been around since the dot com era and has made a name for itself in terms of both the hardware it delivers and the software (like FreeNAS) that is shipped with it. But is this…