Category Archives: beleg-iâ

Stories about my server. Built in early 2009, I tell the story of the building the physical machine, building up the server software and maintaining it.

Another disk upgrade to beleg-ia

Posted on September 6, 2010 by Ben Lavery

I’ve just ordered three Western Digital 2TB drives, my plan is to use ZFS’s RAID-Z to glue them together, I figure I’ll get around 4TB worth of space doing this.  Currently I have mirrored storage which is good, but I’m effectively wasting … Continue reading →

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rm -rf tragedy

Posted on March 29, 2009 by Ben Lavery

It happened a couple of weeks ago now.  I plugged in my external hard drive “POCKET” and OpenSolaris mounted it under /media/POCKET.  I was going to copy my films and TV series over to POCKET as I was travelling up … Continue reading →

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Beleg-Iâ gets an upgrade

Posted on March 1, 2009 by Ben Lavery

It happened a couple of weeks ago now, I’ve upgraded the storage in beleg-iâ.  It now has 4x 500GB disks! I have them in two mirrors, one for the boot disk and one for data.

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DynDNS and my server

Posted on March 1, 2009 by Ben Lavery

I meant to blog this ages ago, and have only just remembered about it! I wanted a way for me to access my server when I wasn’t on the local network.  A friend pointed me to DynDNS, this will give … Continue reading →

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File system frenzy

Posted on January 4, 2009 by Ben Lavery

On my server, I’ve been looking into having various ZFS file systems, this would allow me to better manage parts of the system later on. I have so far set it all up as such:

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Installing GCC on OpenSolaris

Posted on January 3, 2009 by Ben Lavery

Ok, I know I’ve blogged this before, but this is about doing it via the command line: I installed everything as root… # pkg install SUNWgcc Simple as that! Some other packages people might like: # pkg install SUNWgmake # … Continue reading →

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Beleg Iâ – Building

Posted on January 3, 2009 by Ben Lavery

So, I had ordered the parts and the parts had arrived.  I was very good, although everything was with me by last Tuesday, I refrained from building them up until Friday. So this is my new case:

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Beleg Iâ – Hardware

Posted on January 3, 2009 by Ben Lavery

I decided I really wanted to build a server running OpenSolaris with ZFS.  My main idea is to use it as a file server. So, for about a month now I was contemplating the hardware I should use.  After reading … Continue reading →

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