Raspbian is based on Debian. Upgrading it to the latest version is done the same way as upgrading a normal Debian distribution. To not make this my shortest blog ever, I’ll show how I upgrade one of my Raspberry Pi. The upgrade to release N is performed by starting the Read more…
Running a server allows you to do a lot of stuff from remote. Copying files is one of those tasks you can do from anywhere on the world while being logged on via SSH. For this task it is good to know the speed of read/write to get an idea Read more…
Scenario The HDDs are in an external USB case. RAID5 with 3 HDD (10TB) Software RAID5 with mdadm and Debian Linux Adding a new disk When you add a new HDD to an existing RAID, a sync is started. In my case I added a 10TB disk to a RAID5. Read more…
My internet provider is Unitymedia. Their default router comes with a DHCP server. Honestly, it’s one of the worst products I ever had to work with. My private network is 192.168.0.x. The DHCP server of the Unitymedia box is distributing from time to time leases for 192.168.192.x. Changing my private Read more…
Recently I had the problem that running apt-get update stalled while trying to connect to an IPv6 address. For instance, on a Raspberry Pi, the update process stalls while trying to connect to archive.raspberrypi.org. All other connections worked fine. Looking at the console output, a difference was that apt was Read more…
The example used in this blog is a CIFS share from a Samba server running on a Raspberry Pi mounted on demand by a client running Debian. Goal The goal is to have a share on a client that is dynamically mounted. The share should only be mounted when an app Read more…
7zip is a popular compression program for Windows. It allows to effectively compress files, split them into several archives and to add protection by using a password. This all works fine if you are a Windows user. In case you now want to extract such a multi part password protected Read more…
Some while ago I posted a blog detailing how to install Subsonic on a Raspberry Pi 1. If you google for “subsonic raspberry pi” my blog shows up as a top search result (normally 3rd place, but even second is possible). In addition, each day I get more than one Read more…