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Adding Another BtrFS Storage Pool To An Existing LXD Installation

The following post will likely be part of series documenting moving the containers running on the default Btrfs storage pool used by my LXD installation, to another newly created Btrfs storage pool within the same LXD installation. My LXD installation was installed via Snap and runs on CentOS 7 . Reference: https://lxd.readthedocs.io/en/latest/storage/ https://lxd.readthedocs.io/en/latest/instances/#type-disk System Paramenters: Distribution: CentOS 7.7 Snap: 3.17 Kernel: 4.12.8-1.el7.elrepo.x86_64 Introduction: At one time I had an LVM partition for miscellaneous data content on the boot drive of my server. Realising the data laying there was no longer  really needed, I decided to re-purpose the lvm partition for something else. Also it was an excuse to experiment more with Btrfs in less complicated setups. Currently I have a 6 x 1 TB hard drives arranged in a 3.7TB Btrfs RAID6 Array, which has worked almost non-stop for over two years, but alas I digress. R...
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Favorite Free and FOSS Software I Use

After reading through this article here I felt the desire to also share what software I use daily or at least reasonably regularly. The software listed below is either free and open source, freeware or freemium. The freemium software such as Plex is paid for because I like the additional premium services it provides. As much as I try to adhere the philosophy of free and open source software, technology etc, I'm also practical as it relates to my own productivity, security and convenience. The list is divided into three areas, specifically Desktop, LAN and Mobile (Android). I've included links where you can find our more about each application or access via an Android App Store. The majority of free and open source software may be installed via the package manager for the respective Operating Systems. Without further ado, the my current list: Desktop Operating System (Desktop) CentOS 7 (MATE), UbuntuMATE Office Productivity LibreOffice Text Editing Pluma (P...
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