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Move /var to another partition in Ubuntu

Create partition with fdisk or gparted

fdisk /dev/sdb
...
...

Create fs

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#!/bin/bash

# Source: https://serverfault.com/a/887402/169782

# Usage:
# krsync -av --progress --stats src-dir/ pod<@namespace>:/dest-dir

if [ -z "$KRSYNC_STARTED" ]; then
    export KRSYNC_STARTED=true
    exec rsync --blocking-io --rsh "$0" $@

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Using Pyenv in WSL Ubuntu 22.04 LTS to install Python 3.8

Env

• Windows 10
• Ubuntu 22.04 WSL
• zsh

Requirements

• git

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Fix corrupt ZSH history file

Problem

zsh: corrupt history file /home/bryancs/.zsh_history

Solution:

mv ~/.zsh_history ~/.zsh_history_bad

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Get Linux process elapse time

Get process id

$ pidof tar
1388

Use ps with elapse time

$ ps -p 1388 -o etime

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Add the repo

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:neovim-ppa/unstable

Update & install

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install neovim

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In order to cycle through windows with alt+tab on the current workspace, run:

gsettings set org.gnome.shell.app-switcher current-workspace-only true

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Using cURL to bypass a load balancer

curl -v -H "Host: www.example.com" \
  http://172.16.60.4:8080/some/pah

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Install the packages

sudo apt install libdvdnav4 libdvd-pkg gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly libdvd-pkg

Then follow the on-screen instructions such as

sudo dpkg-reconfigure libdvd-pkg

Install restricted extras such as extra codecs and MS Fonts

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sudo apt update
sudo apt install -y apt-transport-https ca-certificates curl software-properties-common
curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/gpg | sudo apt-key add -
sudo add-apt-repository "deb [arch=amd64] https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu bionic stable"
sudo apt update
sudo apt install -y docker-ce
sudo usermod -aG docker ${USER}