Recently, I moved what I call my ‘base’ installers to Ansible. Base installers are those that install the bare minimum number of tools I require on top of the minimal installs of Linux; that is, Linux installations that include just enough of the OS components to boot and provide minimal, mostly manual administrative tasks. The …
Linux Notes: Fixing Dropbox Container: Update 2
I recently updated the way I run Dropbox in a container on CentOS 7. For a history of this process within my environment, see the following articles: Linux Notes: Fixing the Dropbox Container Containers with SELinux: Dropbox on CentOS 7 Putting Dropbox in a container is required for installations of Linux that do not use …
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Linux Notes: Fixing the Dropbox Container
In my article Containers with SELinux: Dropbox on CentOS 7, I went through the process for using the headless Dropbox client on CentOS 7. This worked wonderfully until the latest releases of Dropbox and CentOS 7. I upgraded CentOS 7, which restarted the container. That, in turn, upgraded Dropbox. This caused the Dropbox container to …
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Linux Notes: Extending a File System in a Virtual Disk
Recently, a comment came to the community about extending a virtual disk and the filesystem within. Given the filesystem type, it is possible to extend without rebooting the guest operating system, even if it is the boot device. In fact, it has been possible to do this on Linux and Windows for many years, but …
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