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  • Managing Disk Partition with the parted Tool in CentOS 7

    As a system administrator, sometimes you may require to manage partitions of your CentOS/Red Hat Linux Operating System. Partition management is always a risky task. But there are some useful tools those are so helpful to manage CentOS/Red Hat Linux disk partition easily. In my previous article, I discussed how to manage CentOS/Red Hat 7 HDD partitions with the fdisk utility. The fdisk tool is only eligible to manage MBR partition table. But GPT partition table is now becoming more popular. On the other hand, the fdisk tool cannot resize (shrink or extend) a partition. To overcome these limitations, we can use another partition management tool named parted which can handle GPT partition table as well as can resize disk partitions. In this article, we will know how to create, delete, resize and rescue partitions in CentOS 7/Red Hat 7 Linux with the parted partition manager tool. The parted Utility The parted is open source and command line utility that is used to manage hard disk partitions. It supports multiple partition table formats including MS-DOS (MBR) and GPT. It is useful for creating space for new operating systems, reorganizing disk usage, and copying data to new hard disks. Installing parted [...]

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    LVM Management in CentOS/Red Hat 7 Linux |   March 15, 2019

    LVM (Logical Volume Manager) is the recommended partition method for CentOS/Red Hat 7 Linux. Specially, if we work on Mail Server, File Server, FTP Server, Web Proxy Server or any application where disk space changes frequently, the LVM partition is mandatory in this case. In my previous article, I discussed how to install CentOS 7.5 with LVM partitioning. If you are new here or CentOS 7 is not yet installed, I will suggest you to follow my previous article and [...]

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    Upgrading MikroTik RouterOS and Firmware using Winbox |   September 9, 2018

    MikroTik RouterOS is in constant development and new features or bug fixes are frequently available, sometimes even monthly. So, it is always recommend upgrading your MikroTik RouterOS to a latest and stable version before beginning any configuration. Sometimes you may find that your production router is required to be upgraded to a new version based on some logical reasons such as: A new feature is available to a new update and you need to implement that new feature. New version [...]

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    MikroTik Configuration with PPPoE WAN Connection |   July 18, 2018

    MikroTik Router is a popular routing device to any network administrator because of having a lot of network features availability. MikroTik PPPoE Client is a special feature that is used to connect any PPPoE Server. If your ISP provides PPPoE connection, MikroTik Router is able to connect that PPPoE Server using PPPoE Client. In my previous article, I discussed how to configure MikroTik Router with static WAN connection and in this article I will show how to configure MikroTik Router [...]

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    Ubuntu RADIUS Server Configuration with freeRADIUS |   September 3, 2022

    Ubuntu Server is one of most popular open-source Linux Server distribution. It is stable and reliable than other Linux distributions. So, enterprise level application can be hosted on Ubuntu Server. Ubuntu RADIUS Server is popularly used for remote authentication and mostly used with the freeRADIUS open source RAIDUS application. freeRADIUS is one of the most popular and powerful AAA (Authorization, Authentication and Accounting) application. Any enterprise (specially ISP company) can use freeRADIUS for AAA solution and can develop billing system. [...]

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    MikroTik Site to Site EoIP Tunnel with IPsec |   March 21, 2018

    VPN (Virtual Private Network) is a technology that provides a secure tunnel across a public network. A private network user can send and receive data to any remote private network using VPN Tunnel as if his/her network device was directly connected to that private network. MikroTik provides EoIP (Ethernet over IP) tunnel that is used to create a site to site VPN. EoIP tunneling is a MikroTik RouterOS protocol that creates an Ethernet tunnel between two MikroTik Routers on top [...]

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    How to Assign Static IP Address in Windows OS |   September 16, 2015

    Communication between one computer to another computer or server is established with IP addresses. Without IP address no communication is possible in computer network. An Internet Protocol (IP) Address is a numerical value or label assigned to each electronic device (e.g., computer, smartphone and printer) which uses Internet Protocol for communication. IP can be assigned both dynamically and statically on a IP devices. Dynamic IP is assigned by a DHCP server. If a DHCP server is present in a network, [...]

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    MikroTik Router Integration and Configuration on GNS3 |   September 19, 2018

    GNS3 is a network simulator software used by hundreds of thousands of network engineers worldwide to emulate, configure, test and troubleshoot virtual and real networks. GNS3 can talk a large number of network vendors including MikroTik. MikroTik introduces Cloud Hosted Router (a RouterOS version) that is used to run as virtual machine and a virtual machine can easily be integrated with GNS3. So, network administrators who are fond of MikroTik Router can now configure, test and troubleshoot their MikroTik network [...]

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    How to Clear Google Chrome History |   August 20, 2015

    Google Chrome is one of the most popular web browsers to online users. It provides a lot of features which help to use this browser smoothly and securely. Google Chrome history is one of the useful features in Google Chrome which helpfully caches or remembers a lot of browsing information specially username and password or login credential of your important web account when you visit various websites in internet. If you are the only user of your desktop or laptop, [...]

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    How to Properly Downgrade MikroTik RouterOS and Firmware |   October 2, 2019

    MikroTik RouterOS is in constant development and new features or bug fixes are frequently available, sometimes even monthly. So, it is always recommend upgrading MikroTik RouterOS to a latest and stable version before beginning any configuration. But sometimes you may face that the upgraded version is not working properly according to your demand or you may upgrade to a new version that you don’t want. In this case, you should come back to your workable RouterOS version and firmware. Upgrading RouterOS [...]

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