Mounting disk images on Linux is fairly straight forward, however an image with a Logical Volume Manager (LVM) partition requires a little more attention. The first thing I do is find out some information about the image(s): root@box:# fdisk -l -o Device,Type,Size disk.img Device Type Size disk.img1 Linux 1G disk.img2 Linux LVM 952.9G -l lists … Read more
This is mostly a post to document my process of setting up Full Disk Encryption (FDE) using the Linux Unified Key Setup (LUKS) and the Logical Volume Manager (LVM). Most major distributions already enable this process at installation, however Slackware does not and it must be done by hand. I am going to use an … Read more
dnsmasq on Slackware 14.2 is compiled without D-Bus. lab$ dnsmasq -v | grep options Compile time options: IPv6 GNU-getopt no-DBus i18n no-IDN DHCP DHCPv6 <snip> … The logs show NetworkManager trying to start dnsmasq, but failing: dnsmasq[4466]: DBus not available: set HAVE_DBUS in src/config.h dnsmasq[4466]: FAILED to start up NetworkManager[3101]: <warn> dnsmasq exited with error: … Read more
My FreeNAS server is a virtual machine (VM) on my Dell r710 server. I mount my NFS and CIFS Shares using AutoFS and configure my static routes to the NAS using the DHCP Server on my pfSense Appliance. AutoFS is software that uses the automounter of the Linux kernel to dynamically mount file systems on demand. … Read more