Homelabs

Disks admin commands Cheatsheet

fstab - mounted drives on startup

#see the file
cat /etc/fstab

# edit the file (better using ansible instead)
sudo -e /etc/fstab

See fstab doc for more info: https://wiki.debian.org/fr/fstab Ansible doc for mounting volumes: here

Get disks and partions info

df: Space available on disks

#see all
# -h option for human readable Size info in Go,To,etc
df -h

#You can also specify a file
df -h /mnt/ssd2
df -h /dev/sdc1

# see only usage of partition mounted on /mnt
# i use a "ddf" alias for this
df -h | head -n 1 && df -h | grep /mnt

Tree view of disks and mounted partition

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Homelabs

How to cleean your system so it doesnt explode ?

Why? - Storytelling

I got an error recently on jellyfin, a sudden crash. It was because a file couldn’t write ? And in fact it was due to the fact that my system storage is completly full. Thanks to Cyberduck awesome logs detail on upload, I saw that the file was not able to write. I thought it was due to CyberDuck (stupid me…), then I tried nano, and there I saw, when editing, that the file was pointting to SWAP. THANKS SWAP, you saved my system from exploding while flying..

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Homelabs

Building your first Homelab

I want to put in place a Homelab server, to run all my small home apps like a Media center server (plex, jellyfin, emby..? who knows!) in a first step.

This is a Repo that recap’s every step that I will achieve to setup my homelab. This will allows me to remember each step of the architecture, automatized the best as possible, and also don’t forget how everything is working.

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