Category Linux

Hard Drive / SSD information

For any reason, you may want to know more information about your disk without physical access to it. (serial number, model, etc.). There are different ways to get to know it. Here there are the simplest I have found for…

Install Docker on CentOs 8 / Rocky 8

What is Docker? Docker is an open-source project that automates the deployment of software into portable, self-contained containers that may operate on-premises or in the cloud. To comprehend what Docker is and what it accomplishes, you must first comprehend the…

Install WordPress on Rocky 8 (RHEL)

This is a simple guide for you to install WordPress on Rocky 8 using MariaDB. After installing Rocky 8 on your server > update: Reboot the server, then proceed to install the necessary requirement: PHP – MariaDB -JSON – tar…

Dual BOOT Windows + Garuda Linux easy steps

After trying different ways, following different guides. I succeed after several try&error proceses. The issues I have had were from “Windows have to be installed in a GPT disk”, to having difficulties adding Windows to GRUB. What works? keep reading!…

Install Google Chrome on Garuda Linux using git

(not using git = sudo pacman -S google-chrome) For installing manually and practice (because is good to know how to use git to download, unpack and install other applications): Follow these steps Press “y” when prompted. Then, change to your…

Raid 1 configuration in Linux (mdadm)

Follow these steps to successfully configure RAID 1 in your Linux OS First, confirm /install/update “mdadm” : (yum for Red Hat distributions, apt-get for Debian distr, pacman for arch distr) Then confirm what drives you are about to work with:…

Extend volume on CentOs8 VM/ESXi

Situation: ESXi host – CentOs 8 VM, “/dev/mapper/cl-root” volume at 95%. Virtual disk capacity needs to be increased. Access the ESXi host web GUI Then edit the VM settings In this case, when I was trying to increase this disk…