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Shrink the VM disk in Proxmox VE
I wrote a post about how to expand the VM disk in Proxmox VE last year. Now I want to show you how to shrink the disk or reduce the size of the disk of VM in Proxmox VE. Background...
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I wrote a post about how to expand the VM disk in Proxmox VE last year. Now I want to show you how to shrink the disk or reduce the size of the disk of VM in Proxmox VE. Background...
It is a small trick to show you how to upgrade Ubuntu 22.04 LTS to Ubuntu 24.04 LTS server. If you are using Ubuntu 23.10, it is quite simple. Run the commands below to upgrade your Ubuntu 23.10. Then it...
Hay, if it is a regular upgrade of the Minecraft Java server edition, I won’t write a post here. Because it is quite straightforward. Say a normal upgrade. ssh to the server with Putty. sudo /opt/minecraft/tools/backup.sh sudo service minecraft stop...
I have an installation of the Gitlab CE version on the virtual machine. It is running on the Host Proxmox VE. Normally I do the update/upgrade through the Webmin interface. I knew that Gitlab has very active development. They may...
Just upgrade all my VPS Webmin installations. From 2.105 to v2.110. Look at the latest release notes. Add an API to check if the system is running or approaching its end of life (EOL) Add support for systemd-timesyncd...
The newly added user’s password is not saved in Ubuntu 22.04lts. Only the password hash is stored in /etc/shadow. Here is an example: The string is separated by colon symbols. The user name is: userabc The whole password part is:...
As I posted before, I have been using PHP-FPM for many years. I added a PHP-FPM status page recently. Now I am using PHP8.2, so I may use PHP-FPM or PHP8.2-FPM to mention it. About the PHP-FPM, I am always...
I just noticed how to set up the DNS record for the Email server on Cloudflare DNS. It should be DNS only. I have my very own Email server, with IP address, a.b.c.d. It is powered by iRedmail. In Cloudflare...
I have been using PHP-FPM to interpret the PHP language program for years. My server or VPS is powered by Ubuntu, most time the latest LTS version or the second latest version. I like Nginx for web servers. In the...
I have been using Cloudflare R2 for Mastodon media storage for almost a week. Let me see what the status of this bucket is and how much storage it takes. The Cloudflare R2 Bucket information See, the Bucket size is...
Today, when I checked the old emails of my second Gmail account, I saw an email with an update notice. I started to use Matomo on this blog in May 2023. Matomo Analytics 5.0 is here What’s new? * Strengthened...
When I post the Mastodon Self-hosting – Clean Media Storage with tootctl command, I forget to record how I prepare the environment. Before I run the tootctl command, I did the following. I checked the version of tootctl.
In the last post, I mentioned that my Gitlab CE space was used very fast. In 4 months, I have to expand the disk space again. The folder /var/opt/gitlab/prometheus/data/wal is more than 85GB. There are so many files in the...
It is the second time I have expanded the disk on Proxmox VE. I have a post about how to expand the VM disk in Proxmox VE. The host is Proxmox VE v8.1.3. The guest is a Gitlab on Ubuntu...
Set up Backblaze B2 storage with existing Mastodon. Here is for my record, not as a guide or reference. If you follow it on your Mastodon instance, take a risk. I use the Backblaze B2 storage after a few days...