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Analyzing and graphing weather data with wview
Scott Reeves shows how to extract climatological data from the open source weather program, wview. This data can be further analyzed or filtered using awk or Perl, and allows for t...
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Using version control with the LyX document preparation program
Scott Reeves introduces the LyX document prep program with a GUI front-end that makes formatting easy.
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Use vgcfgbackup and vgcfgrestore to back up metadata on LVM
Scott Reeves shows how to use two handy commands to back up and restore volume group metadata on LVM.
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File system migrations using tar and dump
Scott Reeves answers a reader's question about migrating an existing ext4 file system to LVM. Here are some tips about how to copy the old files to a new file system using dump and...
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How to use Logical Volume Manager (LVM) to grow etx4 file systems online
Scott Reeves explains how LVM and fsadm can be used to grow ext4 file systems without incurring any downtime for critical applications -- even while the file system is being expand...