Connecting to NFS Shares From Windows (Properly)

Introduction If you live in the Windows world you probably haven’t had much cause to use NFS because SMB is the done thing, but if you’re working with Linux hosts or NAS devices NFS can be simpler to deal with. The problem is that Windows NFS support is a bit…wonky and it doesn’t help that almost all the guides on t’internet are giving out bad advice. So to continue my series of “I just figured this out so it seems only fair to share” posts, here’s how to setup the NFS client on Windows properly....

2021-02-11 · 3 min · Adam

Google Drive and Mysterious Quota Usage

So in preparation for Google’s changes to Photos and the impact on my storage quota and I went and checked what I was using. Turns out my drive storage was using up 9.64Gb, which seemed like a lot, so I compared it to what my locally synced copy was using: 2.3Gb. Did some Googling and found out that items in your trash count towards the quota, so I went and emptied it....

2020-11-13 · 2 min · Adam