Questions tagged [convert]
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How do I convert a .cer certificate to .pem?
I have a .cer certificate and I would like to convert it to the .pem format.
If I remember correctly, I used to be able to convert them by exporting the .cer in Base64, then renaming the file to .pem ...
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Is there any way to shrink qcow2 image without converting it raw?
Is there any way to shrink qcow2 image without converting it raw?
I cannot convert it to raw because I don't have disk space enough for raw image.
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How do I install 'convert' on a linux system?
My application needs to call 'convert' - http://linux.about.com/od/commands/l/blcmdl1_convert.htm
But its not present on my redhat system. How / what do I install?
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Convert Hyper V images to Virtual box
I need to change my client OS from Windows 2008 to Windows 7. I therefore need to convert all of my HyperV images to Virtual Box.
What is the best way to do this? Or is there a way to run HyperV on ...
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ImageMagick's `convert` utility takes *too much* memory with PDF input
I often use ImageMagick's convert for *->PNG conversion, but when PDF has more than 50 pages — convert eats more that 3 Gib (!!!) of memory. I guess it first loads everything.
That's unacceptable. It ...
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How to convert a TAR file into an ISO file
I have a Linux TAR file that I would like to convert directly into an ISO. Is there a way to do this, preferably, without having to extract the contents of the file first?
This would be similar to ...
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Convert MBR to GPT partition format
Is there a way I can convert an MBR partition setup to a GPT partitions with out having to destroy all my data?
Thanks
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Converting Filemaker to SQL or another database system
Currently at work we have a Filemaker database running on Filemaker Server 7 on a Windows Small Business Server 2003. I would like to change from using Filemaker to a different database, one with a ...
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Migrate KVM .img to VirtualBox .vdi
I am trying to migrate a VM from KVM to Virtualbox (win7 64bit). I was able to convert the disk image using these commands:
VBoxManage convertfromraw -format VDI XX.img XX.vdi
qemu-img convert -f ...
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Converting a Maildir to a PST
Does anyone know of any solutions to convert a Maildir to a PST in linux? I'm able to use a program in Windows called Aid4Mail, but that requires me to pull the Maildir down from the server. I've got ...
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Convert VMware image to Virtualbox image (Guest OS Windows Server 2008)
I am trying to convert several VMware images towards Virtualbox images. I have succesfully been able to convert my Windows Server 2003 image, but I haven't been able to convert any Windows Server 2008 ...
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Converting Multiple VMware disk image to single disk image
I have a VMware Instance that uses "multiple vmdk" format(around 7 vmdk files). I want to write the entire disk image to my pen drive.
If it was "single vmdk" image, I can use
qemu-img convert file....
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EtcKeeper: Switching from bzr to git
I've been using etckeeper on my Digital Ocean droplet for sometime and have made numerous changes to the /etc since that time.
I now realize that i've been using bzr all this time and would like to ...
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Migrate linux dhcp to active directory
I need to migrate/convert a dhcp server from linux to active directory. It's currently running fine on a sles9 box.
There are 136 subnets defined and about 1200 fixed-address reservations. It would ...
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Convert a CSV file to a XLS file on the linux command line? [closed]
I'm using Debian Linux and I want to convert a CSV file to an Excel XLS Spreadsheet file. The catdoc package includes the xls2csv command that converts from XLS to CSV. However it doesn't do the ...
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bash: convert date from to unix timestamp changes timestamp
Running the following command at the xen-servers (either DOM0 or DOMU) at $company gives me a negativ number, on every other system zero (0) (even in my cygwin).
date -d "1970-01-01T00:00:00" "+%s"
$...
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Easiest way to convert HVM DomU to PVM?
I've got a bunch of Xen 3.4 DomUs that are currently running as HVM because of our infrastructure (Kickstart which doesn't handle Xen PVM yet). Both DomU and Dom0 are RHEL5 machines. If I understand ...
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Migrating from MySQL Server to MariaDB
I've heard that MariaDB has better performance than MySQL-Server. I'm running software that makes an intensive use of MySQL, thats why I want to try upgrading to MariaDB.
Please tell me your ...
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How do I convert a plaintext file to a PDF on the command line on Windows 10 without paying money? [closed]
All I want is to turn a .txt with a proportional font (monospace/Courier New/Fixedsys/whatever) and fixed column width (80 chars) to be turned into a correct PDF document, so that it can be printed or ...
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Convert hard drive to Virtual Machine
I'm looking for a way to convert a raw hard drive image (from a machine that had Windows 10 installed on it) to a bootable working virtual machine, preferable VMware based. Everything I'm finding ...
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Expand existing RAID1 zpool into RAID10 zpool
I'd like to expand/convert my existing RAID1 (2x 3TB mirror) zpool to RAID10 zpool by adding 2 more 3TB HDDs without losing (or moving) data stored on my existing pool.
The final result will look ...
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Convert ESXi 5.0 & 5.5 VM's to Xenserver 6.5
I'm looking to convert about 50 esxi vm's to xenserver 6.5. I am running the free version of xenserver 6.5. I've seen posts for the citrix xen converter tool and I've tried out the VMware OVF ...
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Xen: Convert image to lvm with minimal downtime
My Goals:
Convert all my DomUs from image-based to lvm-based
Minimal downtime
Minimal performance impact on other DomUs/Dom0
My plan / setup:
All my images are in a big lvm-volume, all lvs for the ...
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Converting NTFS to ZFS (or other)
Are there any benefits of converting HDDs that are running NTFS on a Linux machine to ZFS?
Is there a way to do such conversion in Linux without losing the data?
What about the stability of ZFS on ...
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How can I virtualize a Unix machine using VMware?
I have a computer with a Unix OS installed on it. I want to convert this computer to a virtual machine so that I can run it on another computer with VMware workstation.
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How do I export my pem file to pfx with a password on the command line
I need to pass the password via the command line during the exporting in a bash script.
IBM has this on their website
openssl pkcs12 -export -in "$pem" -inkey "$key" -out "$pfx" -passout pass:pkcs12 ...
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mdadm RAID6 to RAID60
Is it easy to convert a RAID6 to a RAID60?
Right now, I have an 8-drive RAID6. I'm looking to upgrade to a 3U 16-bay system and thinking of having a 16-drive RAID60. Is it possible to move my ...
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qemu-img convert CentOS7 vmdk to qcow2 and vice versa error
I'm trying to convert CentOS7 from VMDK to QCOW2 and vice versa using qemu-img convert command.
when uploading the new Templates (OVF with the new converted vmdk and KVM template with the new ...
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ImageMagick unable to open image and file [closed]
I try to convert images to thumbnails with imagemagick. All works fine, so I will get a thumbnail. But I get some errors on my console:
convert: unable to open image `module': @ error/blob.c/...
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Create VHD file from a folder?
My scenario :
I have 100 Gb of data that contain a lot of folders and files , so is there a way to create a VHD file from this folders and files ?
Any help is thankful .
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Can I convert my database/script to UTF-8?
How can I convert a database to support UTF-8 and convert it's old data from what ever encoding they're in to UTF-8 ?
Extra Info:
I'm running a server which has many websites on it, and one of them ...
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Moving w2016 image from ESXi to KVM gives message "No Bootable Device"
I'm trying to move a windows server 2016 image from ESXi to KVM, but I'm receiving the error "No Bootable Devices" when I try to boot it.
Here's the output of the command "virt-...
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Convert SCO OpenServer 5.0.5 partition to VMDK/VDI/VHD?
I've read a few articles about converting a Windows partition using either the VMware tool or disk2vhd from sysinternals but nothing for unix that I can find. Does anyone know if there is a way to ...
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Noop convert qcow2 image but keeps internal snapshots
I have a qcow2 image. The image size is 200 GB, but the actual use is only 30 GB.
I'm using qemu-img convert -O qcow2 source.qcow2 shrunk.qcow2 to removes sparse space and the images shrinks correctly ...
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Tip for a good Database Converter Tool [closed]
I need often to convert a database from a database server to another, for example convert a database in MSSQL to a PostgreSQL or convert a MySQL to PostgreSQL, but also convertion between MySQL and ...
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Hyper-V how to connect compressed NTFS storage or convert it
I am on Windows Server 2012 R2, trying to connect to one Hyper-V virtual machine.
The requested operation could not be completed due to a virtual disk system limitation. On NTFS, virtual hard disk ...
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Bracket to convert half-height to full- height PCI card?
I would like to convert a half-height PCI card to full-height card, so some sort of metal bracket is needed.
Does anyone know what such a converter is called?
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Merging two SQL Server databases
I'd like to import data from one SQL Server DB to another. Both DBs have the same table definitions, etc. but different data. The primary keys are auto-incrementing, so the same primary key will ...
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Converting RPM packages for debian fails "due to shell metacharacters"
I am trying to convert the "MegaRAID Storage Manager" RPM packages to debian dep packages. I'm using the alien package therefor as explained here:
https://hosting-tutorials.co.uk/tutorials/...
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Change Gluster Volume Type
I would like to change a striped-replicate volume to striped-distributed volume, is this possible without rebuilding everything/data loss?
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Dell PERC6/i - Converting from RAID 5 to RAID 6 - Possible?
I have a PowerEdge 2900 III with a PERC 6/i Controller. The PERC has 2 arrays, each one with 3 hard drives and each hard drive is the same size/speed (146GB 15K rpm SAS).
I would like to delete the ...
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How to convert .arm certificate file to .pem format?
How to convert .arm certificate file to pem format?
I think .arm format ist used in IBM WebSphere, and I get certificates/public keys in these format. How can I convert there files to .pem or ...
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Importing a machine from VMware to xenServer
I've exported my VM from VMWare and tried importing it into XenServer (xcp-ng 7.6) XenConvert 2.1.1 but I always get this error:
Friday, May 24, 2019 11:15:04
XenConvert 2.1.1.2199 Copyright (c) 2001-...
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Converting CELP audio files? [closed]
I've been tasked with converting CELP audio files (usually stored as .wav files) into a more mainstream format. CELP is a audio format specialized for speech and used in many voice recorders.
Does ...
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hg repo and kbfiles extension
I've used Mercurial repository with kbfiles but now I have to use pure Mercurial. How to convert repo from kbfiles to pure hg? They are not compatible and seem I will lose all history if I not find ...
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how to convert this .htaccess from Apache to Nginx?
I need to convert this .htaccess to Nginx format, please guide me if you can.
DirectoryIndex index.php
FileETag none
ServerSignature Off
Options All -Indexes
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
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Sendmail + m4 - problem converting mc files into cf
I'm currently trying to configure sendmail fo the first time and setup a mail server on a small embedded computer ( running a custom linux distribution ).
I'm having an issue with the m4 macros:
I'm ...
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Windows-Server-2019 - Raid 1 Software - Could not convert Disk to Dynamic security enabled on Disk
I installed a fresh Windows Server 2019 on ONE of two identical Crucial CT1000MX500SSD1M.
I don't have an integrated RAID controller on my MB ASUS_H110m-A/M.2 so I wanted to try a software RAID 1, ...
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Issues with converting JSON to CSV with nested values
So far I have had no problems converting standard JSON to CSV with jq in the past. But now my data becomes complicated.
Major base tags are account and subaccount. All other values are variables. The ...
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