Enlarging an LVM partition on a linux machine is trivial. You only need one command to do it and it can even be done when the partition is mounted.

lvresize -r -L +20G /vg1/lvm1

This command enlarges the LVM lvm1 to 20GB. Assuming you use an ext, ReiserFS or …

I purchased nearly all Humble Indie Bundles from the HumbleBundle-guys. I also do not want to manually download and install the games from the site, because after all, I use Linux and a decent package-manager, pacman. Luckily, there’s the AUR and the hib-dlagent, which lets me install and …

Here I wrote about my initial attempts with Python. I started with a backup script for my home-computer because that’s what I needed at the time. Now I’m reviewing and tweaking it.

My considerations at the time of writing the initial script were:

• It should check if the …

I changed my blogging platform from Wordpress to Pelican. Pelican is a static html generator written in Python. I also changed the whole design. It’s a bootstrap-theme with some little modifications.

The reason I changed from Wordpress is the effort to maintain a secure and up-to-date installation opposed to …

I needed a script that checks:

• whether a cronjob ran at its determined date (that means it runs regularly)
• if the cronjob ran successfully

It should also be monitor-able via Nagios. That means, it should provide a meaningful output for when something went wrong with the cronjob, e.g. “CRITICAL …