Since I am running my Debian servers with a custom kernel I am constantly annoyed with messages asking me to also update the bundled 2.6.18 kernel in Debian Etch when running apt-get upgrade. This is why I came across these two commands that will stop apt-get to attempt to upgrade the kernel: echo linux-image-2.6.18-6-686 hold [...]
I am currently taking care of 4 servers used in production, and 3 of them are running Debian Linux (version 4 – Etch). Since I upgraded to 4.0r2 I had a lot of new stability issues with varius servers and applications and it proved that the problems were generated by the kernel version bundled with [...]
One of the server setups that I am running includes 3 identical disks arranged in a RAID0 array, totaling 881 Gb of usable space. A couple of months ago, one of the disks failed after a blackout, thus the whole array was destroyed. No weeping for the lost data, ok? I got over it :) [...]
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