If you built your own NAS with a PC, a Linux OS and some disks, you will need to monitor the health of your hard drives. Wouldn’t it be nice to know by advance if a hard disk will fail? Being proactive is essential here. And it also works if you only have a Linux workstation… For this, we will use the smartmontools …
Do you need your servers to communicate securely through the WAN or an unsecured LAN? Having some services communicating insecurely that you want to encapsulate in a VPN tunnel? Let’s see how we can have a setup using 2 servers. We could have more but… let’s keep it simple for now. General configuration Before we start, let’s name those 2 linux …
Open a terminal. BEFORE inserting the USB key, check which disks are available:
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diskutil list |
You should see one or more disks installed on your system like this:
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/dev/disk0 #: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER 0: GUID_partition_scheme *250.1 GB disk0 1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1 2: Apple_CoreStorage 249.2 GB disk0s2 3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.1 MB disk0s3 /dev/disk1 #: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER 0: Apple_HFS IntelSSD *248.8 GB disk1 Logical Volume on disk0s2 Unlocked Encrypted |
Insert the USB key. Do a “diskutil list” again. You should see one more disk. This is your USB key. Let’s assume it is /dev/disk2. First we need to convert the ISO file to …
