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On my main workstation running Fedora 36, I use both autofs and Systemd automount to mount NFS on demand. Gradually, I’m leaning toward just to use Systemd automount. Here is just a brain dump with an example of mounting an NFS share with Systemd autmount. Though, I had done this before, I found this blog post, available at [1], provides details on how to do this. Assumption The NFS server and share: banan.example.com:/srv/music The preferred local mount point: /srv/banan/music Create required Systemd unit files We will need 2 unit files: the mount unit and the automount unit. ...

I recently had a need to run Proxmox Virtual Environment (7.2-4) at home for a project. So far everything seemed to be straight forward, partially thanks to KVM technology used in Promox. However, I also learned a few things along the way too. The first thing that I had look up on the Internet to get it working is to activate (Promox) qemu-guest-agent. If you’re reading this, it’s likely you didn’t get it working on first trial either. ...

A quick note for me to remind myself how to stop/start network service on FreeBSD (13.0). To stop or start, run one of the following commands: # service netif stop # service netif start To restart, just replace stop or start with restart: # service netif restart I also just found out that the above commands will nto restarting the routing service, as they only stop/start/restart network. To restart the routing service on FreeBSD, run: ...

Today I just added an old SSD to a Windows machine to use it as a back up drive. With old disks, usually they come with existing data, and I wanted to get rid of it. The problem is I couldn’t figure out how to do this using the Disk Management, the native GUI application used to manage disks. The problem could be simple to Windows users. Basically, when I right-clicked on the 2 partitions (450 MB and 100 MB) on Disk 0, there is no option to remove them. ...

After taking a very long break (over a decade) from running openSUSE on my person machine, I finally got Tumbleweed installed on a spare Intel NUC machine. If you’re one of my blog readers, expect to see more contents about SUSE/openSUSE later. Today, I’m going to share how I fix the issue with bluetooth keyboard/mouse not connected to this NUC at the login screen. I can’t remember I needed to do that my main machine running Fedora, but oh well, the fix is simple enough (if you know now). ...