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During the upgrade of Fedora 38 to Fedora 39 (beta) on my main desktop, the first attempt failed due to insufficient free disk space on the root volume. After some manual intervention such as vacuuming the journald logs, I was able to perform the successful upgrade. Not that it matters, but I’m writing this blog post on the same desktop running Fedora 39 Beta. This post is to record how I increase the root volume on my desktop with the help of a few tools such as growpart, lsblk, resize2fs,…etc. Like always, if you stumble on this post and want to follow along, please do not just copy and pate the commands from here and run on your system. Try to understand what each command does, if you don’t, then you definitely must not copy and pate these commands! ...

In this post, I’ll document how to use AWS CLI to delete a few Lightsail resources. I have never done this before, so this would be a good exercise for me. To make it less boring, I’m writing this post while I’m deleting these resources. First step, I need to look for the instance name [1]. ❯ aws lightsail get-instances --query 'instances[].name' [ "WordPress-1" ] The above output is the name of the instance I’d like to delete. With its name, the instance can be deleted using the following command line [2]: ...

If you have an ElastiCache Memcached cluster that you no longer need, it’s better to delete it. Dno’t believe me? Even AWS said so too: It is almost always a good idea to delete clusters that you are not actively using. Until a cluster’s status is deleted, you continue to incur charges for it. [1] Well, I have a Memcached cluster that I don’t need anymore. But instead of deleting this cluster using AWS console [1], I’m going to do this via AWS CLI. ...

This is a quick note on how to delete VPC endpoints that are no longer needed with AWS CLI. First, we need to find all the vpc-endpoints-ids [1]. ❯ aws ec2 describe-vpc-endpoints --query 'VpcEndpoints[].VpcEndpointId' [ "vpce-097008f8d26caxxxx", "vpce-07aaeabdefd8xxxx", "vpce-0bc6d548ff2e0xxxx" ] Note: I replaced the last 4 digit with ‘xxxx’. It’s a good idea to try out without really deleting the VPC endpoints by supplying --dry-run to the command below: ❯ aws ec2 delete-vpc-endpoints --vpc-endpoint-ids vpce-097008f8d26caxxxx vpce-07aaeabdefd8xxxx vpce-0bc6d548ff2e0xxxx --dry-run An error occurred (DryRunOperation) when calling the DeleteVpcEndpoints operation: Request would have succeeded, but DryRun flag is set. Let’s delete all of the 3 resources: ...

Have you ever been asked or wonder how to learning a programming language? If not, then you can skip this blog post. :-) At work, a coworker said to me “I want to learn a programming language. Where do I start or how do I even start it?” I was asked this question because I had explicitly expressed my interest to my teams that I like programming a lot, though programming is not being used my professional career at the moment. ...