"When my system partition on server OS running out of space, What should I do? When receive a system warning “Low Disk Space” on server OS, what should I do? When the partition size on server OS is irrational, what should I do? Tackle all these problems with one solution - Resize Partition!!" H...

Also: find -name "*.avi" -exec ./myscript '{}' \; Womble's answer definitely works in the majority of cases, but Xargs isn't perfect with spaces across all implementations. I've never found find's 'exec' mode to break. Solaris was particularly cranky in that respect. Obviously, the '-print' wou...

Dear fellow Administrators, I have a very burning issue I am still hunting an answer for. We had a maintenance involving the IT infrastructure (new computers, cabling, etc.), but we have found that software-side improvements are needed too. I have a small, central server, which is a very bull c...

This is a Canonical Question about Active Directory. What is Active Directory? What does it do and how does it work? I find myself explaining some of what I assume is common knowledge about it almost daily. This question will, hopefully, serve as a canonical question and answer for most b...

For those unaware, I'm a Systems Administrator at Stack Exchange. See my serverfault profile for verification. I've discussed with the management and here's the deal. We've got a limited budget for this project, but within the bounds of that budget I can procure for us a single VPS with the fo...

I've run XFS filesystems as data/growth partitions for nearly 10 years across various Linux servers. I've noticed a strange phenomenon with recent CentOS/RHEL servers running version 6.2+. Stable filesystem usage became highly variable following the move to the newer OS revision from EL6.0 an...