Clonezilla: “Box” is an unknown partition device

I was looking for some files that were on my laptop before I erased it for re-partitioning (to GPT) and reinstalling. Luckily, I made an image of the drive using Clonezilla. When trying to restore the partition image to a disk (restoreparts) inside a VM, Clonezilla kept error-ing out after selecting the partition(s) to restore. …

Updating ESXi host using local patch zip file

A Tweet from @ESXiPatches prompted me to update my ESXi 6.7.0 host. I enabled SSH and tried to update, but I got the popular message: $ esxcli software profile update -p ESXi-6.7.0-20220704001-standard \ -d https://hostupdate.vmware.com/software/VUM/PRODUCTION/main/vmw-depot-index.xml [OSError] [Errno 28] No space left on device Please refer to the log file for more details. This is not …

Proxmox VE and Let’s Encrypt with DNS-01 Validation

One of the appealing reasons for using Proxmox VE as your hypervisor is that one can configure their system to obtain a TLS certificate for https from Let’s Encrypt on a regular basis. The Environment At the time of writing, I am running Proxmox VE version 7.2-4. The name of the node for this article …

can’t change attributes MNT_DEFEXPORTED already set for mount

When restarting my TrueNAS (CORE) box, I got a few of the following errors for a few of my datasets: Apr 23 02:11:37 truenas 1 2022-04-23T02:11:37.549270+00:00 truenas.local mountd 1176 – – can’t change attributes for /mnt/tank/user/jmtran: MNT_DEFEXPORTED already set for mount 0xfffff8016cc87000 Apr 23 02:11:37 truenas 1 2022-04-23T02:11:37.549276+00:00 truenas.local mountd 1176 – – bad exports …

Yet another post about setting up alerts

tl;dr Set up e-mail alerts so that you are alerted to when things (start to) go wrong. This morning, I got an email from my FreeNAS server with the following: New alerts: * Boot Pool Status Is ONLINE: One or more devices has experienced an unrecoverable error. An attempt was made to correct the error. …

INSTALL_VERIFICATION_FAILED_ALERT_INFO Error with Office 365 and macOS

While installing Office 365 (16.25.19051201) for a client (macOS High Sierra 10.13.6), Microsoft AutoUpdate (MAU) pops up with an error saying “INSTALL_VERIFICATION_FAILED_ALERT_INFO”. Clicking OK would open the browser and it would proceed to download the latest AutoUpdate to install. However, at the end of the install the error comes up again. Repeat until annoyed. While …