As of 10.4.6, if you've got a GPT partitioned disk, you can use diskutil from the command line to resize volumes... nigelkersten@zombie: ~ $ diskutil resizeVolume Disk Utility Tool Usage: diskutil resizeVolume [Mount Point|Disk Identifier|Device Node] size <part1Format part1Name part1Size> <part2Format part2Name part2Size> ...
From looking at the mailing lists and discussion boards, you'll see that a reasonable number of people seem to be having problems with their AFP servers under OS X Server 10.4.x, particularly under heavy load with network home directories, and particularly in terms of stability.
Verifying large volumes can be a real pain, especially on systems that need to be up as much as possible. Here's some ideas on how to make this as painless as possible.
Using ACLs with WebDAV allows for much finer control. In the past, in order to allow a user access either access locally to their home directory or remotely via WebDAV the ownerships on the folders either had to be owned by the user themselves for local access or owned by www for remote access.
It's been a few weeks since RAID Admin (hereon known as RA) and firmware 1.5 was released. Now seems like a good time to go through the options, both old and new, explain a bit about them, and then discuss the best way to update your firmware, along with *why* you might need to.
Xsan Admin 1.2 has been released, and is available for download here. There are some very important instructions to follow on this upgrade - like, don't upgrade from version 1.0 to version 1.2 directly. The full instructions for the update are available on Apple's knowledge base.
After upgrading my home system to Tiger, I noticed that my RsyncX backups to an external FireWire drive were no longer working. Much consternation and hair-pulling later, I realized that the Spotlight indexing was causing problems with RsyncX.
Thursby's ADmitMac is a full-featured SMB/CIFS client that contains a lot of great features to hook Mac OS X into an Active Directory infrastructure. Be aware, though, that there is a downside involved. Thursby chose to implement a different method of handling resource forks on non-AFP filesystems than Apple uses in its samba-based SMB client.
Recently I was writing a shell script in which I needed to create a disk image, mount it, write to it, and dismount it. The command in OS X that manages disk images at the command line is hdiutil, and the man page is rather long.
A while back Joel put up a script to backup the key components of the mail store for 10.3 server. With Tiger, we got the added benefit of AMaViS/ClamAV/SpamAssassin so I made a few changes...
