Miscellaneous Tech Bits

Various tech notes, howtos and possibly useful information

Recovery Of A Corrupted MySQL Database

In case a MySQL database is corrupted such as only its internal state is corrupted but data itself is intact it may still be possible to recover a database. The symptom of such corruption is that MySQL has failed to load database tables due to corrupted or missing indexes. The sample error logging when such […]

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Recovering RAID-1 Array From The Missing Superblock Error

CAUTION Please ensure you have additional backup of your data prior to continuing the recovery On Ubuntu Linux I have RAID-1 set up for various data backups. One day when I attempted to boot to Ubuntu I failed to do so. After some preliminary troubleshooting it was found that most of RAID-1 array members could […]

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Setting Up OpenRC Services On NanoBSD

NanoBSD is a variant of FreeBSD for embedded systems suitable to run on devices such as Beaglebone, Raspberry PI, etc. In my latest experience I was playing with GhostBSD to be run on the Beaglebone board. So the below examples will be based on such the setup. The NanoBSD tool makes it pretty simple to build […]

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Migrating From Project Trident To GhostBSD

Project Trident used to be a FreeBSD desktop operating system based on TrueOS but recently the decision was to move it to Void Linux. More details can be found at the following URL: Project Trident on Void Linux. Since I would like to continue using FreeBSD as my desktop workstation, here is a few simple steps […]

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