make sure exfat fuse and utils are installed on the system emerge -av sys-fs/exfat-utils sys-fs/fuse-exfat sys-fs/dosfstools exFAT seems not handle well the switches -pgo that relate to permissions. When using standard switches -avgh, it will trigger errors rsync: mkstemp “/run/media/3461-3338/ki.txt.ws6eA5” failed: Function not implemented (38) Instead when coping use the following flags rsync -rltDv [SRC] […]

There are few free dynamic DNS options such as dnsdynamic.org freedns.afraid.org ydns.eu dtdns.com duckdns.org noip.com Install ddclient. emerge -av net-dns/ddclient Let’s focus on freedns.afraid.org. Open an account and pick a domain name. Prepare config file nano -w /etc/ddclient/ddclient.conf Enter information on the subdomain name you just created. daemon=3600 syslog=yes protocol=freedns use=if, if=eth0 ssl=yes use=web, web=myip.dnsomatic.com […]

emerge -av sys-apps/smartmontools add to init rc-update add smartd default nano -w /etc/smartd.conf # DEVICESCAN For all disks with SMART capabilities. # # -o off Turn off automatic running of offline tests. An offline test # is a test which may degrade performance. # # -n standby Do not spin up the disk for the […]