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If I had to guess, why people use an Arch-based system, I would guess a big reason would be the AUR — even though it is not officially supported. It is a big part of the community and the appeal of Arch. This is a story how the AUR can break some things and the reason it is not officially supported. It all started with a normal update. In my case I used the AUR helper paru to update all system packages and all AUR packages....

I recently was looking for a way to run a systemd service on the last business day of the month, but I could only find an answer for first business day of every month on Stack Overflow which was wrong. So I looked into it. Spoiler: This is not possible with one calendar expression. If you remember only one thing from this blog post, remember systemd-analyse. There are quite a few useful subcommands, e....

I recently was consulted on a Ceph Cluster running into nearfull and backfillfull for the first time. One Ceph OSD was utilized over 85% and another over 90%. The operators were unaware of the meaning and what to do about it, so took a look. Looking at ceph status and ceph df, I noticed something. Try to spot it yourself – I made it easier by removing some stuff around it:...

I recently revived my Synology D415+ NAS from silicon death and it looks like it works fine again. When I bought it, I wanted to be able to run any docker image. Which is why I opted for Atom instead of ARM. Which is also why I upgraded RAM to 8GB. The disks basically never spun down which made it quite noisy. Now, I just want it to be silent, if not in use....

Recently re-inspired to start to blog, I decided to open – same as Jay Faulkner – with a meta post about why, what to expect, and how I (will) do it. Why I Want to Blog If I start to learn a new topic, I feel like a total beginner. But the more I learn about something, the more I can draw from related topics to generate a more complete understanding of how it works....