Linux on Kenno's Open Note

How I Resized My Linux Boot Partition

Fri, 31 Oct 2025 20:01:13 +1100

I recently ran into a classic problem on my long-running Fedora installation: my /boot partition was full. Back when I set up the system (around Fedora 20), 400MiB was more than enough. Now, with modern kernels, it can barely hold two versions, let alone the default three that Fedora manages. This meant I couldn’t run system updates.

The challenge was that my disk was partitioned with /dev/sda1 for /boot and /dev/sda2 as a single large LVM physical volume for my /root and /home filesystems. This setup prevents a simple resize of /dev/sda1.

Stopping hard drive clicking noise on MSI U100

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 04:14:27 +0000

Finally, the OS X has been removed from MSI Wind U100, and completely replaced by Debian (testing).

Whenever the computer is idle, the hdd makes this weird clicking noise. To stop it, we can use hdparm to turn it off.

kenno@tora:~$ sudo hdparm -B 254 /dev/sda</p>

/dev/sda:
 setting Advanced Power Management level to 0xfe (254)
 APM_level      = 254

Source: MSI Wind – Gentoo Linux Wiki

Convert wav to m4a with GNU/Linux

Mon, 27 Jul 2009 12:16:52 +0000

There are probably a gazillion ways to do this. I use FAAC, Freeware Advanced Audio Coder, to do this job.

It works very well:

<br /> faac originalfile.wav -o outputfile.m4a<br />