Still documenting how to attach a external SSD (or could be internal) on a linux machine or server and how to initially set it up for basic use. Then, how to get a Docker app running in a VM on a Proxmox server to access and use data on the drive. Example: all music used by Navidrome is on the SSD, or all audiobooks used by Audiobookshelf or digital books, etc.
After almost losing my Proxmox server - thank God for recent backups and snapshots - I decided to document how the storage was set up this time, which was more logical than the initial setup. Two internal NVMe SSDs and one external SSD. General outline of where to host the OS, backups, VMs, and external data used by the VMs, including how to mount it into the Docker containers correctly.
Maintenance Guide for Debian based Proxmox servers. Differs a little from the same tasks on Ubuntu based servers. Don't make the mistake I did of running Ubuntu maintenance script on Debian servers, in this case they were Proxmox ones.
Crontab Guru (Cronitor Dashboard) & Cockpit are GUI fronts for running cron jobs and all things system administration related on Linux Mint.
A repeatable blueprint for mounting external drives through Proxmox hosts to VMs and into Docker containers using NFS shares.
This is an updated, cleaner and easier to follow outline on how to install Fish, Atuin, Tide and set custom left and right prompts in the terminal. You still run Tide Configure to set up the Tide prompt initially.
This appears in other articles on this site but since it is used in most of my new VMs that I spin up on Proxmox, it made sense to break out the instructions in a separate article.
Most used Git commands to help maintain and update your GitHub repo. Git tracks changes not files. Most operations are reversible if you understand the process
Step-by-step procedure for transferring files from one Linux box to your Docker VM (or any Linux system), while preserving permissions and ownership, with all required commands explicitly stated, using the 'username username' (UID and GID = 1000) command.
Sometimes you do not install apps via the software manager or remember off hand how you did install a specific app. This article shows a few different ways to remove unwanted software when you are not sure of the installation method. Done on a linux mint (ubuntu) system.