Labeling an exFAT Partition File System

I just formatted an external drive with exFAT file system with the intention to share this drive between Windows/Linux/macOS. When the drive is mounted on my Fedora desktop, it shows as: /dev/sde1 on /run/media/kenno/E17F-B2B1 type exfat ()(rw,nosuid,nodev,relati...) I want to give it a name, so it’ll be mounted as: /run/media/kenno/DRIVE_NAME. On Linux system, we can use a tool called exfatlabel to get or set the exFAT file system. I already created a partition and format it (mkfs....

April 10, 2021 · 1 min · 203 words · kenno

Work Around for Dracut and LUKS Issue on Pre-release Fedora 34

I’ve been running Fedora 34 pre-release version even before it became beta. Everything has been working so far until recently when a package dracut was updated from 0.58 to 0.58-1. What is dracut? Good question. It’s an initramfs infrastructure used on Fedora system. Find out more from Dracut. The issue that introduced in version 0.58-1 on F34 is that it prevents any machines that use LUKS encryption for root partition to boot....

April 10, 2021 · 2 min · 319 words · kenno

Clean Up Systemd Journal Logs

On my Fedora 33 system, the systemd journal is persistently logged. Over time, the size of the log accumulate quite a lot. # du -shx journal/ 4.2G journal/ I already cleaned up the log twice in the past, but I already forgot how to do it. To fix my short-term memory, I’m going to document how I do this by following this blog post Clear systemd journal. The command for cleaning up old logs is journalctl with the option --vaccume-time=OLDER_THAN_TIME....

March 26, 2021 · 1 min · 166 words · kenno

Create libvirt Virtual Network From an XML File

I have a need to setup a virtual network on a VM-host server. Usually, I just use the virt-manager gui application to create this task. However, I’d like to do this via command line this time. Why? Well, why not? It’s always fun to learn new thing. :) libvirt keeps network configuration in XML files under /etc/libvirt/qemu/networks/. Here is what I have on one of my machines: # ls -1 /etc/libvirt/qemu/networks/*xml /etc/libvirt/qemu/networks/classroom....

March 22, 2021 · 3 min · 543 words · kenno

Passed EX403 Satellite 6 Administration

Last night I published 4 or 5 of blog posts related to the Foreman/Satellite server. Well, it wasn’t a coincidence, it was me cramming the last minute for the Red Hat Satellite 6 Administration exam today. It’s also known as EX403. Needless to say, I didn’t know what was in the exam, and I can’t share what was in exam I had taken today. What I can share with you is that I passed EX403!...

March 9, 2021 · 2 min · 300 words · kenno