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‘ddrescue –direct’ will open the input with the O_DIRECT option for uncached reads. ‘raw devices’ are not needed on newer kernels. For older kernels see below.
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in newer Versions of the Windows operating system you to not need additional tools to get the most important Harddisk smart parameters.
Continue reading Windows: Get Disk Smartparameter and Health status
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with virtualization it simply possible to change systems within a few mouse clicks. For example adding new disks or increasing the disk size of a hard disk without a reboot.
Continue reading Linux: Rescan for new and changes of devices
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difficult Windows issue today. A user had the problem that he could not delete a Folder (C:\Temp\orders) , also renaming or moving is not possible. The same behaviour with the command line tools rmdir, ren and move.
The folder was created from Excel with a vba macro.
The error message was: Cannot delete file: Cannot read from the source file or disk.
Continue reading Windows: Error: Cannot read from the source file or disk, Could not find this item. This is no longer locate…
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here is a list of some cli’s to control a VMware ESXi host from the command line. Enable the ESXi shell and login to console or connect with a ssh client remotely.
Management
Restart Management, HA Services
/sbin/services restart
Installing Software. List/Install/Uninstall VIBs (vSphere Installation bundle)
List vibs
esxcli software vib list
Install a vib
esxcli software vib install -v file:/tmp/[NewVIB].vib
Uninstall a vib (determine the Name of the VIB by the list command)
esxcli software vib remove -n VIBname
Install a patch
esxcli software vib install /tmp/[patchName].zip
Network
firewall state
esxcli network firewall get
Firewall rules
Continue reading VMware ESXi: A (incomplete) list of host commands Part 1