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Corrupted virtual disk with VMware

Wow, this article and especially one of its comments saved my day. My computer crashed and one of the VMware machine hosted on it could not start anymore : “Cannot open the disk ‘path of vmdk’ or one of the snapshot disks it depends on. Reason: the specific virtual disk needs repair. Checking on the [...]

Posted 16 January 2011 § Admin § Linux § openSUSE § System § Virtualization ‡ Comments (2) ° Also tagged: ,

Btrfs : a key feature coming to Linux

Great and clear article there from Linux magazine that sums up the new BTRFS file system. I can’t wait for it to become stable ! UPDATE 2009-02-05 : I hope to see this soon on a Linux distribution.

Posted 23 April 2009 § Admin § Linux § openSUSE § System ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,

ACL on Linux

Rights management on Linux is enough for most use.
In a few words, a file or a directory belongs to the owner and what you can do is positionning some right to this owner, to his group or all other users (= guests).
This is not bad, but sometimes you (or your application) may need more advanced right management, as on the latest windows versions : putting several owners with different rights, inheritance, etc.
There are named ACL (Access List Management) and they are supported on Linux also.
This is not going to be an how-to but just a brief informative introduction to ACL on Linux. You will find many how-to on the web if you need more.

Posted 25 March 2007 § Linux § System ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , ,