Syaifuddin’s Growing Space

Syaifuddin’s Growing Space

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Linux Administration

[EN] Track progress of MySQL Import/Export process using PV
The problem Today, I need to export a MySQL database and then import it to a new server. The database is not too big, just a few GBs. But it was taking so long, and I wonder when this will be finished? By default, when you run mysqldump command to ex...
Nov 21, 20252 min read4
[EN] On-line storage resizing in cloud instances
Let’s say you’re using VMs in AWS, GCP, or any other cloud provider and running out of disk storage. Normally you can stop the instance, increase the storage, and then start it again to resize the disk. But that would cause a downtime. In my experien...
May 9, 20252 min read7
[EN] Create, mount, and make persistent a new ext4 filesystem on a new disk
When managing a Linux server, sometimes you need to add new partitions, e.g, directory to store your backup in a separate physical disk, or new place to put your files. In this article, I’ll create a new ext4 partition with the mkfs.ext4 command. Pre...
May 8, 20252 min read25