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Month: May 2023

  • Understanding the Default Filesystem on Proxmox

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    When you install Proxmox it’s quite common to choose just a single local disk and let the installer use LVM to partition it. This turns the drive into a physical volume (PV) onto which the installer will create a single volume group (VG) called pve. Inside that volume group the installer will create three logical…

  • Setting up SMART Monitoring in Proxmox

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    The aim of this article is to configure SMART monitoring in Proxmox and to send emails in the case anything untoward is found. You should already have the email system set up as per this earlier article. This article assumes that you have disks attached directly to the system rather than via a RAID controller.…

  • Setting up Email Notifications in Proxmox Using Gmail

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    Getting email notifications from Proxmox is important as you absolutely want to know what that disk fails at 3AM or if the backup decides it’s had enough and gives up. The first thing you need to check is that you have set a valid email addresses for where the email will come from. By default…

  • Building a Home Server with Proxmox – ZFS

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    The installation of Proxmox is well covered in official guide so I won’t cover that here. There really aren’t many choices to be made during install anyway. I installed the OS on a 1TB M.2 drive and I plan on storing most of my VM’s there as well. Obviously, this will be backed up as…

  • Understanding how to use Discover on KDE Neon

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    I’m not sure I like the Discover application every much but I’m sticking with it for now because I’m concerned it’s a me problem. The problem I faced was I wanted to install KeePassXC but I couldn’t see how to get a version that was up to date. The version being offered was 2.6.6 which…

  • Setting up KDE Neon for the First Time

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    I have decided to try and switch to Linux for my daily drive and, for better or worse, I’ve chosen KDE Neon as my distro. This is not a distribution I’ve tried before but so far I’m liking it. The basic install is quite minimal but that’s fine by me, I want to choose what…

  • Installing nVidia Drivers on KDE Neon

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    I’ve decided to try and make a full time switch to Linux after 20+ years of debating whether to try and I’ve picked KDE Neon as my distro of choice. I picked Neon because it fulfilled my requirements of being based on Debian or Ubuntu, having KDE as a first class option, having Flatpak, and…

  • Disk Performance Testing in Linux

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    Testing the performance of a disk under Windows is easy, you download and install CrystalDiskMark and hit “All”. Of course it can get more complicated than that but if what you want is a quick and fairly accurate measurement it’s got you covered. Under Linux things aren’t quite as simple. Please don’t think I’m saying…

  • Checking Hard Drives from the Linux Command Line

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    When buying new hard drives it’s always a good idea to check them for bad blocks. If a drive had bad blocks it can be an indication it’s not long for this world, especially if the number of bad blocks grows over a short period of time. In this article I’ll show you how to…

  • Notes on Configuring a Home Server

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    I’ve run a home server of one kind or another for as long as I can remember, at least 25 years at this point. My old server was starting to show it’s age so I decided that it was time to build a new machine and learn a new technology or two along the way.…