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If you find yourself in a situation where you have run out of drive space and your applications are failing as a result, you can run the following command to remove the reserve blocks on the drive and make some space. tune2fs -m 0 /dev/devicename Replace /dev/devicename with the partition you need to make space [...]

NOTE: RAID expansions can take a few hours to complete, especially if done on-line. This assumes that new drives have been added to the RAID array and a rebuild of the array has been done. You will need to follow these steps to have the OS recognize the new space. 1. Confirm fdisk -l shows [...]

Lets suppose you have a shared httpdocs directory on your server in which you would like to have your developers gain access. However, there is going to be more than one developer and each one will have their own login credentials. This becomes a problem because of file ownership permissions. If one developer has uploaded [...]