yorickdowne

Overview

Ubuntu Desktop 20.04 supports a single ZFS boot drive out of the box. I wanted a ZFS mirror, without going through an entirely manual setup of Ubuntu as described by OpenZFS in their instructions for Ubuntu 20.04 and instructions for Ubuntu 22.04

This adds a mirror to an existing Ubuntu ZFS boot drive after the fact. It's been tested on Ubuntu 20.04 by me and all the way up to Ubuntu 22.10 by users in comments.

ZFS requires native encryption to be added at pool / dataset creation. Ubuntu 22.04 supports this during installation. Whether these instructions are suitable for mirroring such a setup has not been tested. For Ubuntu 20.04, these instructions are not suitable for creating an encrypted ZFS boot disk, please use the full instructions linked above for that. You can, however, add an en

mss

# Tested on an upgraded Ubuntu 20.04
apt install netplan.io
systemctl unmask systemd-networkd.service
systemctl unmask systemd-resolved.service
ENABLE_TEST_COMMANDS=1 netplan migrate
netplan try
reboot
apt purge ifupdown resolvconf
ln -sf /run/systemd/resolve/stub-resolv.conf /etc/resolv.conf

ibaiul

Protonmail on CentOS server

#protonmail #centos #fedora #linux

Before you start

Currently protonmail bridge for linux is distributed as part of an open beta program, but soon it will be made public (https://protonmail.com/bridge/install).

Consider that the bridge linux client requires a paid protonmail account to work.

Get the protonmail bridge linux installer

ipbastola

Safest way to clean up boot partition - Ubuntu 14.04LTS-x64, Ubuntu 16.04LTS-x64

Reference

Case I: if /boot is not 100% full and apt is working

1. Check the current kernel version

$ uname -r 

coderua

#!/bin/bash

#
# Automate mysql secure installation for debian-baed systems
# 
#  - You can set a password for root accounts.
#  - You can remove root accounts that are accessible from outside the local host.
#  - You can remove anonymous-user accounts.
#  - You can remove the test database (which by default can be accessed by all users, even anonymous users), 
#    and privileges that permit anyone to access databases with names that start with test_. 

plentz

# to generate your dhparam.pem file, run in the terminal
openssl dhparam -out /etc/nginx/ssl/dhparam.pem 2048

jancborchardt

Dealing with issues

Try to reproduce issues

Go through the new issues and try to reproduce them. It’s important to get additional info, logs, and test if an issue occurs on different platforms. That helps us identify the source of the problem.

Triage issues

• if there’s more info needed, ask the reporter to use the issue template
• assign relevant labels