Thoughts from the abyss

Playing around with some themes again. It’s time for change, but I haven’t decided which one I like or want yet, so I apologize for different looks and views for a little while as I make up my mind.

I ran across www.childsplaycharity.org today, which I urge you to visit. You can either donate money to them, or better yet, you can pick items off of listed Childs Play Hospital’s Amazon’s Gift Lists, and send items directly to a childrens hospital of your choosing. Very cool. A copy of Hotel for Dogs is on it’s way to the childrens hospital most nearest me right now.

# lvextend -L+5G /dev/vg0/whatever
  Extending logical volume whatever to 45.00 GB
  Logical volume whatever successfully resized

# cryptsetup resize /dev/mapper/whatever

# resize2fs /dev/mapper/whatever
resize2fs 1.39 (29-May-2006)
Filesystem at /dev/mapper/whatever is mounted on /whatever; on-line resizing required
Performing an on-line resize of /dev/mapper/whatever to 11796351 (4k) blocks.
The filesystem on /dev/mapper/whatever is now 11796351 blocks long.

Voila! Your encrypted partition has been resized.

Very long time, no post. I had a fire at my house, well not mine the neighbor’s fire damaged mine but anyways, at the beginning of the year, so a lot of things in life got put on hold as I dealt with that. That being said, some recent discussions about the CentOS wiki came up again on the documentation mailing list. There’s a big attitude about posting material on their wiki these days from a few, so I decided to not participate there any longer. I removed my name from all the pages I had created and worked on there, but left the content.

If you’re visiting there and find stale information, that’s the reason why. I’ll only be maintaining documentation here at this site now. It’s sad, and I hope attitudes start to change in the future of CentOS. It seems they are driving more and more people away. Wikis are about sharing, but there is so much control and criticism at the CentOS wiki it’s hard to share these days without being discouraged.

Title says it all. I now having /tmp /swap and /home encrypted on my laptop, as well as /tmp /swap /home and /srv (used for backing up laptop) on my desktop at home. Remember, no use encrypting your laptop if you’re backing it up in the same location without encryption.

Guide can be found here on this site: Encrypt /tmp /swap & /home.

Also, you can find it on the CentOS Wiki.