Amazon EC2 Docs and locations

To work with command line on the Amazon Cloud you need to get hold of the following file which is the EC2-api-tools look for the latest version here : I used the file found here. When trying to setup the Amazon EC2 tools you would expect to have some script that asks you key questions and sets up the environment…

Adding a XFS filesystem to CentOS 5

Howto use enterprise Linux ‘extras’ to mount a XFS filesystem on a CentOS v5.2 VM Install RPM’s Note: Due to this bug (3205), install binutils to overcome the error “xargs: nm: No such file or directory” while installing kmod-xfs-xen. # yum install binutils # yum install xfsprogs yum-kmod kmod-xfs-xen # mkfs.xfs -f /dev/sda1 Check A chunk of…