Category Archives: Ubuntu

Create/Modify LVM Physical Volumes, Volume Groups and Logical Volumes on Ubuntu 16.04

Posted on September 24, 2016 by Ahmed Tawfik

It’s pretty straight-forward, but before you start, you need to check for block devices that can be used to create physical volumes: sudo lvmdiskscan You will see a result that looks like this: /dev/ram0 [ 64.00 MiB] /dev/sda [ 50.00 … Continue reading →

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Compile & Install virt-manager 1.4 on Ubuntu 16.04 and Linux Mint 18

Posted on August 14, 2016 by Ahmed Tawfik

The latest virt-manager supports configuring VMs for OpenGL passthrough for 3D acceleration in virtual machines plus a SPICE console that can make good use of that, which I have been waiting A LOOONG TIME for! Unfortunately, the default package on … Continue reading →

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How to mount a file created using dd command

Posted on March 17, 2016 by Ahmed Tawfik

I created an exact copy of a bootable USB drive using the dd command (which is an extremely cool tool by the way) using the following command: dd if=/dev/sdb of=myFile.img After that, to mount it, you can simply use the … Continue reading →

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How to reset your administrative user password in ubuntu

Posted on March 10, 2016 by Ahmed Tawfik

It’s useful in case you forget your password and unable to access your system. All you have to do is: startup your machine and select the kernel that you use at the grub menu press e to start editing Find … Continue reading →

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How to add Ubuntu Server to a Windows Active Directory

Posted on November 10, 2015 by Ahmed Tawfik

Setup: Server: Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS 64-bit pbis-open version: 8.3 First of all, install these packages: libpam-winbind (available in repository) nfs-common (available in repository) pbis-open (download latest version from http://download1.beyondtrust.com/Technical-Support/Downloads/PowerBroker-Identity-Services-Open-Edition/?Pass=True) Now that you have all the necessary packages, you have to … Continue reading →

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