Goal: Mount an encrypted partition on a secondary disk to /home.

I needed more space for user files on my Linux desktop running on an SSD, so I wanted to use a second rotating disk to store user files. I also wanted to encrypt this disk.

We needed a network analysis tool and decided to use ntop. Official ntop website provides binary packages for Ubuntu and CentOS.

Ubuntu has an official package for ntop but the package is version 3 and we preferred to use the latest version, so package repositories were no good for us …

After configuring a Courier mail server on a Debain squeeze server, I got this error on my mail client:

Filesystem notification initialization error — contact your mail administrator (check for configuration errors with the FAM/Gamin library)

The problem is related to libfam0. FAM is a service for system processes that …