The Gears Inside My Head

Forgive me for the gratuitous advertisement but I am a fan of cloud storage.  It's still in it's infancy but the way technology changes these days the sky's the limit, and we haven't seen anything yet. Anyway, I'm extremely paranoid by nature so I won't store anything in the cloud unless it's pre-encrypted.  As much as I love the concept I still just don't feel comfortable storing stuff on these sites.  As a result I use SkyCrypt and BoxCryptor to pre-encrypt everything that goes to the cloud. One thing I found that's pretty slick is a service that can link cloud services called "MultCloud".  It allows you to move files between cloud services.  They have a deal going right now where if I post a blurb about their service I can get my account bumped up to 10 Terabytes of cross-traffic.  What the heck, I can use the bandwidth so here goes. MultCloud( https://www.multcloud.com/ ), a FREE and easy-to-use web app, supports for Managing File...

I had to expand the disk on our Cisco FirePower appliance today to accommodate additional logging.  Initially I had a lot of trouble getting things to cooperate.  It took some time and searching Google to identify why I was having issues.  The answers were contained within about 4 different posts I located. This appliance starts life as an OVF file that you download and deploy.  It's based on a heavily modified version of Redhat Linux. As a result these steps would apply to any Linux extended partition. The logs are stored under the /var folder which is mounted from SDA7.  SDA7 is the third partition contained withing an extended partition. The solution is fairly simple using a GParted live CD image so I figured I'd post it. The process is as follows: Gracefully shut down the appliance. Snapshot it "just in case". Edit the VM settings to add a CD drive and force BIOS at next boot.  Extend the disk to whatever size is required at this time. Mou...