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How to stop an mdadm resync.

Sunday, April 4th, 2010 Posted in Linux, Storage | No Comments »

After reading through the manpage for mdadm and struggling with attempts to kill the resync processes manually I came across the checkarray command. To stop an active resync of all md raid devices "/usr/share/mdadm/checkarray -xa". To stop a specific device ...

Ubuntu 8.10 Desktop Released

Tuesday, October 28th, 2008 Posted in Linux | No Comments »

London, October 27, 2008: Canonical Ltd. announced the upcoming availability of UbuntuĀ® 8.10 Desktop Edition for free download on 30 October. In related news, Canonical also announced the simultaneous release of Ubuntu 8.10 Server Edition http://www.ubuntu.com/news/ubuntu-8.10-desktop

Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Released

Thursday, April 24th, 2008 Posted in Linux | No Comments »

Canonical Ltd. announced the upcoming availability of Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Desktop Edition for free download on Thursday 24 April. In related news, Canonical also announced the simultaneous release of Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Server Edition. http://www.ubuntu.com/news/ubuntu-8.04-lts-desktop