Today I got a new harddisk, so it was finally time for me to have an in depth look at LVM. I use it to combine two harddisks /dev/sdg1 and /dev/sdb1 into one volume group ext_vg which contains one big logical volume /dev/ext_vg/ext. In short, my 250GB and 500GB harddisks are used in one big [...]

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I am a long-term StumbleUpon user, which means that I don’t get much sleep. Now, after almost 4 years of stumbling, I have decided to get my life back. Well, at least some sleep!
What does this do?
Every night when I have to work on the next day (Sunday night to Thursday night ), at [...]

I have just discovered that ext3 defaults to reserving 5% of its partition exclusively for root, as a precaution measure that your system does not get FUBAR when you use it for your root partition. I have a 230GB external USB disk that I use for all my big storage requirements, downloaded stuff, backups etc. [...]

The Clearlooks Compact theme was released just a few days ago, and it already is the highest rated theme at gnome-look.org, out of more than a thousand. I guess the compactness really hit the nerve of lots of Linux users.
This encouraged me to do some further updates, I have incorporated lots of several tips and [...]

Compact theme just got more compact, now it switches to 16×16 icons which saves quite a bit of space for the buttons. More info here.

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