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December 28, 2015

Masterbuilt 30″ Propane Smoker Notes

Filed under: Food and Drink,Links — Tags: , — Landis V @ 2:24 pm

Recently bought a Masterbuilt propane smoker from Cabelas.  Had kicked the idea around for a while, and the price was the lowest I’d seen by 25%, so went ahead with the purchase.  Got it assembled the other day and ready for a burn-in run, started this post to keep track of any notes I come across on it.

It was noteworthy that I had to make some minor modifications to complete the assembly.  It looks like they sent me two front legs for the same side, so one was missing one of the semi-necessary holes to mount the control panel.  Probably could have gotten by without it, but I just drilled a hole and added the fourth nut and screw.

  • http://www.cabelas.com/product/MASTERBUILT-SE-PROPANE-SMOKER/1934607.uts
  •  http://www.smokingmeatforums.com/t/127853/masterbuilt-propane-smoker
    • Page with some suggestions for improving seal, temperature control, chip and water pans.  Suggests chunks instead of chips.  Also several suggestions for alternate smoke sources.

December 27, 2015

Resizing a Raw VMDK For a VirtualBox Guest

Filed under: Linux,Virtualization — Landis V @ 6:19 pm

Had to resize a partition as I had run out of space on my VirtualBox Linux guests.  Pain in the butt.

Shut the guest down.  Ran a ‘lvextend -L+2GB /dev/amdfx/guestname‘ where “amdfx” is my physical volume and “guestname” is the logical volume name.

Had an extended partition with swap space, so used fdisk to delete the extended partition.  Also deleted and recreated the primary partition making sure to select the same starting sector and setting the end sector using the previous ending value plus 2*1024*1024 (should have been *2 again, but decided it was alright for now).

Recreated the raw disk image for the VM.  First detached and deleted it with ‘vboxmanage storageattach kmm –storagectl “SATA Controller” –port 0 –device 0 –medium none‘, ‘vboxmanage closemedium disk VirtualBox\ VMs/guestname/guestdiskname.vmdk‘, ‘vboxmanage closemedium disk VirtualBox\ VMs/guestname/guestdiskname.vmdk‘, and ‘rm VirtualBox\ VMs/guestname/guestdiskname.vmdk‘.  Then recreated and re-attached it with ‘vboxmanage internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename VirtualBox\ VMs/guestname/guestdiskname.vmdk -rawdisk /dev/mapper/amdfx-guestname‘, ‘vboxmanage storageattach guestname –storagectl “SATA Controller” –port 0 –device 0 –type hdd –medium /home/user/VirtualBox\ VMs/guestname/guestdiskname.vmdk‘.

Restarted the VM, it booted normally.  I was then able to run a ‘resize2fs /dev/sda1‘ from within the guest and realize a gig of extra space (would have been 2GB, except for my screw-up forgetting to multiply by two).

Resources

  • http://askubuntu.com/questions/115310/how-to-resize-enlarge-grow-a-non-lvm-ext4-partition
  • https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=50255
  • http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/extendlv.html

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