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The aim of this article is to configure SMART monitoring in Proxmox and to send emails in the case anything untoward is found. You should already have the email system set up as per this earlier article. This article assumes…
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Setting up Email Notifications in Proxmox Using Gmail
Getting email notifications from Proxmox is important as you absolutely want to know what that disk fails at 3AM or if the backup decides it’s had enough and gives up. The first thing you need to check is that you…
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Building a Home Server with Proxmox – ZFS
The installation of Proxmox is well covered in official guide so I won’t cover that here. There really aren’t many choices to be made during install anyway. I installed the OS on a 1TB M.2 drive and I plan on…
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Understanding how to use Discover on KDE Neon
I’m not sure I like the Discover application every much but I’m sticking with it for now because I’m concerned it’s a me problem. The problem I faced was I wanted to install KeePassXC but I couldn’t see how to…
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Setting up KDE Neon for the First Time
I have decided to try and switch to Linux for my daily drive and, for better or worse, I’ve chosen KDE Neon as my distro. This is not a distribution I’ve tried before but so far I’m liking it. The…
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Installing nVidia Drivers on KDE Neon
I’ve decided to try and make a full time switch to Linux after 20+ years of debating whether to try and I’ve picked KDE Neon as my distro of choice. I picked Neon because it fulfilled my requirements of being…
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Disk Performance Testing in Linux
Testing the performance of a disk under Windows is easy, you download and install CrystalDiskMark and hit “All”. Of course it can get more complicated than that but if what you want is a quick and fairly accurate measurement it’s…
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Checking Hard Drives from the Linux Command Line
When buying new hard drives it’s always a good idea to check them for bad blocks. If a drive had bad blocks it can be an indication it’s not long for this world, especially if the number of bad blocks…
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Notes on Configuring a Home Server
I’ve run a home server of one kind or another for as long as I can remember, at least 25 years at this point. My old server was starting to show it’s age so I decided that it was time…
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Using Your MikroTik Router with Sky / Now TV Broadband
I recently switch to Sky / Now TV broadband from Plusnet. I’d been with Plusnet for many years and while they started out as a fairly decent company with some well priced offerings as they have grown they have become…
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Fixing the Proxmox VE “zpool create failed: exit code 1” problem
Right at the outset I want to say I’m quite new to ZFS at the time I write this so do your own homework. Anyway, I was trying to create a RAIDZ array on my test server which is currently…
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Flash Memory Plugin for OpenMediaVault
If you are installing OpenMediaVault on a Raspberry Pi chances are you are running the operating system off an SD card. SD cards are great for read only access by they will quickly wear out and die if they get…