Linux

Void Linux distribution and general Linux stuff.

XBPS Packages

I have hosted packages under https://voidlinux.jpastuszek.net. Usage /etc/xbps.d/jpastuszek.c...

OS Setup

Swap file On Btrfs: btrfs subvolume create /.swap truncate -s 0 /.swap/swapfile chattr +C /.s...

PKI

Setup Put openssl.conf: openssl.conf distinguished_name = $ENV::DN x509_extensions = $...

i3blocks

Requires font-awesome (4) and font-awesome5 OR font-awesome6 OR all of them installed. /etc/i3bl...

PipeWire

Tools pw-record & pw-play - capture and play sound qpwgraph - visual tool for making links be...

Mount image files with loop dev

Mounting file systems from loop device: losetup -f <path to .img file> dmesg | tail -n 1 # see ...

Copying and imaging disk drives

Copy image to disk with Disk Destroyer dmesg -w # and plug in your drive; see dev name that was ...

BBS

Z-Modem

Use screen command to connect to BBS with telent. .screenrc zmodem catch !!! rz -vv -b -E

Monitoring

Tools Network nload - interface traffic graphs bwm-ng - interface traffic stats (no graph) ...

Rsync

Copy content preserving attributes of /foo to /bar: rsync -aXHA --info=progress2 --stats /foo/ /...

LUKS encryption

Set up new encrypted volume Format cryptsetup luksFormat --type luks2 /dev/<dev> cryptsetup lu...

Git

Default config [user] email = hxd@hexadust.net name = Hexa Dust signingkey = FF16E5FDA4287...

Replacing Switch SD card

Migration to bigger SD card No tool under Linux can extend ExFAT filesystem. Files have to be co...

Nvidia GeForce RTX 3050

TL;DR: Utter piece of hot garbage - literally. Don't buy yesterday, today or ever. Linus was righ...

Expanding parititions

Backup partition table fdixk -x /dev/<dev> sfdisk -d /dev/<dev> > partition.dump Shrinking EXT...