I needed to expand the root partition in a KVM virtual on a debian host server that has KVM and Libvirt install. The virtual disk that this KVM is using has 2 partitions:
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/vda1 63 1060289 530113+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/vda2 1060290 209715199 104327455 83 Linux
That is the root partition (vda2) is after the swap partition.
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There was a drupal site that I had to deal with recently. It had about 400 block accounts (the site had allowed user to register with administrator approval) - all of whom were junk accounts that needed removal.
There are modules that can be installed that will do this - but I did not want to install any modules on this production site. So I wanted to do this using a command line - linux based server with bash - using drush
The one line bash command is:
... Read MoreUpdate: Various updates to Civicrm means that 4.6.2 can now be changed to handle Mailing labels with Chinese characters without the biggie - everything is lost when you update civicrm. The following code has been updated to reflect this and so only works on 4.6+ versions. The solution comes from various web locations with various problems that needed to be fixed.
I had to get Chinese (Simplified UTF-8) working with mailing labels in Civicrm (4.6.2) - Chinese worked everywhere... Read More
I had just install CrashPlan Pro on my Kubuntu 14.04 desktop. The installation was not that difficult except that you need to remember to change /usr/local/bin for the link directory to /usr/bin.
But I had a problem after the installation - the Desktop client would crash when I run it. The problem has to do with libwebkitgtk - which I had installed for some programs I use. It is a known problem with a solution available.