Monday, September 22, 2014

When mounted disks become directories and eat your drive space...

I'm currently running a Centos 7 machine on which I'm running Windows 7 in a VMWare Player.

When I mount a 1TB TrueCrypt encrypted disk, which mounts in the /media directory, and share it on the Player (as a "shared folder" in settings) it works normally.

But what happens when you reboot the machine and no longer have the TrueCrypt disk mounted?

The Player still uses the /media directory as a shared folder. It took me a couple of boots to figure out why my 50GB /root partition was filled to brim (it had 14MB free) - all the Windows 7 backups were made into the folder, which was no longer the expected 1TB external disk...

So, unless you are mounting that TrueCrypt disk automatically with a keyfile, you better have a good memory and always manually mount it after every boot. I had a couple of power outs because of electrical installations, which the UPS could not handle and my memory concerning machines I'm used to being "leave running and forget" isn't that great anymore. Thus, "hilarity" ensues...

Tuesday, May 13, 2014

Shadowrun: Dragonfall

The DLC for Shadowrun Returns is in many ways better than the original release.

Better campaign, more immersive, new building blocks for the dev kit, easily 10-15 hours to play depending on your playstyle.

All in all, very nice. Especially if you can find it "on the cheap"; while it was on sale for 9,90 - a friendly "trader" (you know those guys that sell stuff like TF2 collectibles for money on the market) sold it for less than 5 eur...

Friday, March 7, 2014

On FreeBSD...

FreeBSD for noobs, note to self:

After install run:
# portsnap fetch
# portsnap extract


... otherwise most of your port installs will fail because dependent files are already newer versions.

Why this isn't handled after the installation automatically, is beyond me. Of course, so are many other things (like why port startup commands must be added to rc.d / rc.conf manually).


Oh, and note 2:

zpool will only allow "clean" unpartitioned disk to be added as spares (naturally). So, if for example, a previously failed installation already partitioned a disk for UFS or ZFS, you need to manually nuke the paritions.

Then you can easily add it as a spare with (adding disk ada3 to pool "zroot"):
# zpool add zroot ada3

Tuesday, January 7, 2014

Holy Happy New Year Batman!

Oops!

It's been a while...


What's funnier than a bunch of squirrels in a bag?

Just Cause 2 (from 2010) with the free multiplayer mod (from 12/2013)!