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Nov/23

MariaDB/MySQL Database Size Sensor In Home Assistant

Filed Under Database, Home Automation at 6th November 2023 0:01 by

A quick little tip to get the size of your database into Home Assistant. The example below will get the Home Assistant database size from MySQL. This should also work for MariaDB using the Recorder integration. Assuming the database schema … Continue reading →

07

Mar/22

Cannot Remove Healthy (Recovery Partition)

Filed Under Windows at 7th March 2022 0:01 by

Overview Windows Disk Management tool does not allow recovery partitions to be removed so the command line route is the built in option to do this. Delete partition Open a command prompt as administrator. For example: typing cmd in the … Continue reading →

02

Apr/19

Windows 10 Backup

Filed Under Windows at 2nd April 2019 0:01 by
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Overview I recently tried Windows 10 Backup to try and get the file version history integrated into explorer with the bonus of file backup on top of my current backup solution. Settings Set up was fairly easy. Adding the backup … Continue reading →

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Jan/15

Replace Disk In LVM On Ubuntu

Filed Under Linux at 19th January 2015 0:01 by

Overview LVM makes adding and removing physical disk very easy as its an additional layer of abstraction. I will go through the steps need to replace an existing disk of same or larger size. Warning! Always backup prior to doing … Continue reading →

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May/10

Full Disk – MediaTomb Hog

Filed Under Linux at 30th May 2010 22:40 by

For some reason MediaTomb was out putting a lot of log statements in /var/log/mediatomb.log. I tailed the file and only got what looked like time stamped entries of normal scanning information as I have timed re-scans. The file managed to … Continue reading →