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How To Set Up Your Own RPM Repository (repo)

Posted by Rich  Published in Linux, Technical

Even if you have more than one system, the benefits of having your own local mirror of RPMs are substantial: faster updates, better synchronization of system packages, etc. It’s also pretty easy to do.

Install createrepo via yum: yum -y install createrepo

You might as well install “repoview”, too:
yum -y install repoview

Install rsync via yum if [...]

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19

Aug

ext3 journaling: check forced

Posted by Rich  Published in Linux, Technical

You get the general feeling that the force is against you. You’re running EXT3, an extension to the old and stable ext2, for that extra buffer: journaling. In the simplest of terms, ext3 prevents those enormous boot-up delays when the volume needs checking due to a crash or other circumstances. EXT3 has [...]

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