Month: September 2016

Creating Non Authoritative  DNS Server is very simple task. Below are the steps to create the server. 1. First check activity on Port No. 53. DNS Server uses Port No. 53 # lsof -i :53 2. If nothing is acting on Port Read More …

There are many ways to create fixed partitions on hard drive. Most people prefer fdisk command to create partitions. In following example we have one hard drive /dev/xvdb. Our aim is to create three partitions on this disk of size 200 MB Read More …

Consider following RAID-1 System. The target is to un-mount the drive and safely remove the partitions. The partitions are as under First un-mount the volume if it is mounted and then use the -S option with mdadm command as below. After Read More …

Management of Software RAID basicaly involves adding and removing the faulty and failed drives from the array. To understand better consider following example. In above example, the drives /dev/xvdb1, /dev/xvdb5, /dev/xvdb6 seems to be clean and healthy. This is RAID Drive, it Read More …

If you do not have any hardware raid controller card then you can build your own software raid using mdadm package in Linux.  Below are the steps. 1. Check RAID Volumes using following command. The above command show that there is no Read More …