Resize Ubuntu VM disk

How to resize a logical volume with 4 simple LVM commands 1st step Increase/resize disque from GUI console of your hypervisor 2nd step Extend physical drive partition check free space: sudo fdisk -l Extend physical drive partition: growpart /dev/sda 3  See phisical...

How to set up automatic updates for Ubuntu Linux 18.04

How do I configure automatic updates for Ubuntu Linux 18.04 LTS “Bionic Beaver” server?   The Linux server security is indeed an essential task for sysadmins. One of the most fundamental ways to keep the server secure is by installing security updates on time to...

How to sync your Microsoft OneDrive cloud storage with Linux

While Microsoft has been making a lot of progress in supporting open source software, and released things such as SQL Server on Linux, their support for consumer software is still lacking. But while applications like Office are still not available for desktop users...

When SNMP spams the log

On Linux systems SNMP usually protocols incoming SNMP connections in your syslog file. Depending on your SNMP polling cycle and your amount of monitoring systems the entries will multiplied. . Example: Mar 4 21:12:48 hostname snmpd[31684]: Connection from UDP:...

How To Use SSHFS to Mount Remote File Systems Over SSH

In many cases it can become cumbersome to transfer files to and from a droplet. Imagine a development usage scenario where you are coding apps remotely and find yourself uploading a script repeatedly to your virtual server to test. This can become quite a hassle in a...

How To Set Up an NFS Mount on Ubuntu 16.04

NFS, or Network File System, is a distributed file system protocol that allows you to mount remote directories on your server. This lets you manage storage space in a different location and write to that space from multiple clients. NFS provides a relatively quick and...

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