Category Archives: Linux

Mounting External Storage within Crouton Chroot Automatically

Posted on March 11, 2015 by Andrew

Having installed crouton on my Acer C720 chromebook, I wanted a way to automatically mount some additional storage within the Linux environment, that could be used to store, for example, Steam or other games. The 64GB Sandisk Ultra Fit USB3 drives seemed … Continue reading →

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Building a new Home File Server (Part3 – Funnies and Foibles)

Posted on September 28, 2012 by Andrew

In this final article on the new home server build I’ll be highlighting some issues and problems I’ve had to deal with, both in hardware and software. You can read the first two articles in Part 1 and Part 2.

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Linux WebDAV mount for box.com

Posted on September 26, 2012 by Andrew

I have around 25GB of photo’s currently sitting on the home server and have been looking at options for backing up online. I have extra paid space in PicasaWeb / Google but the only way to sync pictures to Google … Continue reading →

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