Things you don't want to hear from the exterminator

"Those aren't mice, those are rats."

Linux TPM trouble solved

Getting openCryptokiModule: api_interface.c:3402 Cannot Attach to Shared Memory or CKR_HOST_MEMORY when running pkcs11-tool?

You are probably not a member of the pkcs11 group.

resize2fs broken? your journal is probably too small

Tonight I needed to resize an ext3 filesystem to grow more space for backups.

The normal online resize

# lvextend -L+1G /dev/vg1/part

# resize2fs /dev/vg1/part

wasn't working, and produced the wonderful error:

resize2fs: Operation not permitted While trying to add group #1536

Best guess is this is due to the journal being too small because of old defaults.

The fix is to remove and recreate the journal.

# dumpe2fs /dev/vg1/part | grep Journal\ size

Journal size: 32M
# tune2fs -O ^has_journal /dev/vg1/part

# tune2fs -j /dev/vg1/part Creating journal inode: done

# dumpe2fs /dev/vg1/part | grep Journal\ size

Journal size: 128M

It has been four months since my last post...

I've been hanging out over at twitter: http://twitter.com/rspier

Best Error Message Ever

$   git rebase abh/master
First, rewinding head to replay your work on top of it...
could not detach HEAD

Natural Disaster

This year's Los Angeles fires are affecting UPS too. I've never seen "NATURAL DISASTER" as a delay reason before. In this case, it wasn't actually delayed because of it.

Shouldn't the Defense Information Systems Agency know how to Google?

the following email came into a webmaster@ account that I receive..

Subject: Parsing PDF file (UNCLASSIFIED)
From: Gordon.REMOVED@disa.mil

Classification:  UNCLASSIFIED
Caveats: NONE

Hi,

I am trying to design a Perl program to parse through a PDF file.  In
other words, comparing a string value to the Adobe PDF file.  Question:
has anyone ever done this?

Gordon
Classification:  UNCLASSIFIED
Caveats: NONE

I like to believe that the military is hiring people who know how to perform a simple Google search. Apparently I'm wrong.