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Asking for a relative that will use it mainly for MS Office and Internet....

Best current laptop recommendations under $600?

Starting to play with Zabbix.

Both the Asus and Dell look pretty good. The SSD is what makes the difference. I still can't believe these new laptops have 5400 spinning drives.

Crashed server. Restoring from backup. Success!

I have a VPS that I just upgraded to a larger disk of 40 GB. Can someone walk me through the process of exactly how to expand the partition below (mainly vda2) to make use of the larger disk?

# lsblk
NAME   MAJ:MIN RM  SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sr0     11:0    1 1024M  0 rom  
vda    252:0    0   40G  0 disk 
├─vda1 252:1    0  300M  0 part /boot
├─vda2 252:2    0   24G  0 part /
└─vda3 252:3    0  768M  0 part [SWAP]

@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

/sigh Sometimes I forget IIS doesn't instantly write to its logs.

I hate that! I feel your pain.

This is a test FPBX box that was installed from the ISO, snapshoted, and then restored to a larger VPS.

# mount
/dev/vda2 on / type ext4 (rw)
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
/dev/vda1 on /boot type ext4 (rw)
none on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw)

Good morning everyone!

@scottalanmiller said in Disk expansion - CentOS:

As a general practice for a case like this, start by removing the swap partition and moving to swap file instead. Way more flexible.

This is the way it is setup from the FPBX installer. Perhaps there are more options to check out in the installer. (like to use LVM) I'll have to look.

Getting ready to start up my home brewing hobby again. Time to make some delicious brews!

@scottalanmiller said in Disk expansion - CentOS:

Consider just making a new partition for whatever it is you plan to store that needs all of this space. I can only imagine that you want loads of voicemails or something? Make them their own filesystem.

Yeah, I probably won't NEED all of that extra space, but was just looking to use all available space that I'm paying for on the VPS and keep it "clean".

Here we go again.....

So it looks like the default installer doesn't default to LVM. I'm running another install now to see if advanced options allows me to do it.

Remembering the good ol' days, where I could get a single freggin WIFI access point with a click of a button.

So choosing advanced install, and choosing to use the entire disk, then uses LVM and chooses the following layout:

[root@localhost ~]# lsblk
NAME                        MAJ:MIN RM  SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda                           8:0    0   40G  0 disk 
├─sda1                        8:1    0  500M  0 part /boot
└─sda2                        8:2    0 39.5G  0 part 
  ├─VolGroup-lv_root (dm-0) 253:0    0 37.6G  0 lvm  /
  └─VolGroup-lv_swap (dm-1) 253:1    0    2G  0 lvm  [SWAP]
sr0                          11:0    1 1024M  0 rom  

Backed up my home lab to Backblaze B2. Now I'm going to destroy my esxi server (spun up for testing) and move to Proxmox.

@scottalanmiller said in Disk expansion - CentOS:

@fuznutz04 Much better.

That's crazy. I've even used a VPS provider that specializes in FPBX hosting, and their default partitioning scheme (which you cannot change, it is done automatically) is this:

lsblk
NAME   MAJ:MIN RM  SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sr0     11:0    1 1024M  0 rom  
vda    252:0    0   60G  0 disk 
├─vda1 252:1    0   59G  0 part /
└─vda2 252:2    0    1G  0 part [SWAP]

@scottalanmiller said in Disk expansion - CentOS:

Can't wait to move to it in production.

I know. I didn't even bother installing it yet for testing. I'll wait for RC 2 for that.

@scottalanmiller said in Looking for CRM for New Company:

Helping a new company find the right CRM tool for them. Right now I think that the short list is SuiteCRM (a fork of SugarCRM) and Zurmo, because MQ has liked it in the past and we have some experience with it as I've been supporting that for a couple of years. I've supported SugarCRM for many years as well, maybe eight to ten years, in fact. vTiger is known and we aren't too keen on that one, it's fine but doesn't look as good. I looked at a few and it's very hard to know which are really worth evaluating. Does anyone have any input?

We looked at Zurmo. @Danielle-Ralston even gave me a demo. Right before I was ready to switch over from Dynamics to Zurmo, I did one more check and realized that the project is pretty much dead. The support forums are a wasteland and I didn't feel comfortable switching. Then I stumbled upon SuiteCRM. I fully switched us to SuiteCRM and have been using it for about 2 months now. We love it. We host it ourselves, and it takes almost no resources. We use only about 10 percent of it's feature set at the moment.

Writing a how to guide for SuiteCRM installation for ML is on my to-do list.

@scottalanmiller Yes, the new release will fix a lot of bugs. But with that said, we don't really encounter the bugs that are being fixed. It is a solid product, with a good community backing it. It is also VERY customizable. We've already ripped apart some areas and customized it exactly how we want it.

SO MUCH BETTER than Dynamics.