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Expert Profile: Matt Blecha

Expertise: I can answer questions pertaining to most Linux daemons, Apache, Sendmail, SpamAssassin, vsftpd, Asterisk and others. I do not deal with Qmail, Postfix, or other MTAs, and have minimal experience with Procmail. I am very in depth with Samba and Linux/Windows integration and Asterisk based PBX systems. I also have considerable experience in both PHP and MySQL (installation, administration, and programming of both.) I am also considerably familiar with kernel systems, and networking stacks.

Experience in the area
I've been working primarily with Linux since 1994. I have worked with various different flavors, starting with Slackware in High School, and moving to RedHat during my senior year. Deciding that my experience probably outweighs most of the RedHat support people, I decided to go with the Fedora branch when RedHat decided to close RHEL and release Fedora Core.

Education/Credentials
Though I have no official education in Linux, I have spent approximately, 12 years administrating Linux and continuing to widen my knowledge.

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Average Ratings
Prestige Points: 1460
Knowledge	9.75 Best of the best
Clarity of Response	9.88 Best of the best
Timeliness	9.79 Best of the best
Politeness	9.96 Best of the best
Number Of Questions (in Past 24 Hours)		0
Max Questions to be Asked (in 24 Hour period)		5
Total Questions (since joining AllExperts)		232

Recent Reviews from Users

Knowl	Clarity	Time	Politeness	Date
10	10	10	10	11/23/08
10	10	10	10	11/16/08
10	10	10	10	11/04/08
10	10	10	10	07/01/08
10	10	10	10	05/07/08

User Comments

Prompt and concise, thank you.
(Sean on 11/16/08)

thanks and i will mail u soon!
(sudip on 11/04/08)

Thanks for your very detailed explanation about Fedora setup for development
(Rick on 05/07/08)

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Recent Answers from Matt Blecha

2008-11-19 LVM (with RAID5): Sean, Both your reasons are already pretty much covered under the RAID5 design. As for partitioning, yes, you can partition a RAID5 device, just like any other disk using the same tools...

2008-11-16 LVM (with RAID5): Sean, For the automounting, check out the /etc/fstab file and associated man documentation. It'll all tell you exactly how to set up mounts at boot, etc. As for the LVM, I would simply...

2008-11-16 LVM (with RAID5): Sean, Though the 14GB sounds a little off, it's well within the range of what I would expect using LVM and an ext3 filesystem. The size has less to do with the LVM portion and more with the formatting...

2008-08-10 Dumb question about unix time: Anatoli, Since Linux, like most popular *nix variants allows multiple simultaneous logins, it is conceivable, but unlikely that you would have the exact same timestamp for two actions. It is, however...

2008-07-18 Linux doesn't recognize PCTel modem: Ed, I'm not very familiar with Ubuntu, however, it seems from the error that you're probably missing something like a source or header file. Since it's a driver you're trying to get working, I'd...