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...

Who whoulda thunk it: Ubuntu 9.10 server on P3 hardware

I was pleasantly surprised that Ubuntu 9.10 server edition as a LAMP runs so well (all things considered) on a P3 500Mhz with 640 MB memory.

I even threw in a software RAID1 (mirroring) and Gnome desktop (thought for that I had to ditch the old Matrox Millenium MGA and throw in an AGP GF440MX ;) ).

Of course the WWW-server load is below pitiful (serving a few avatar pictures for couple of boards, etc), but still.


Only one major gripe; why does it ship with 0.9.8 version of the libcrypt and and libssl -libraries when they don't work with Apache2? I had a heck of a headache before I deleted them (forcing Apache & the sshd to use their default libraries)...