Linux Today - Storage

On Linux and other Unix-like operating systems, tar is undoubtedly one of the most used archiving utilities

The latest release of Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel 6 (UEK6) is based on Linux kernel version 5.4.

Autotrash is a utility that searches a trash folder on FreeDesktop.org for information about its contents and then deletes

 Linuxize: fdisk is a menu-driven command-line utility that allows you to create and manipulate partition tables on a hard disk.

Learn how to set up and configure VSFTPD

Watchman is an open source and cross-platform file watching service that watches files and records or performs actions when they change

nixcraft: Learn how to use the xz command in Linux, which offers better compression as compared to gzip/bzip2 command for compression and decompression

An in-depth look at the service and path units that make up systemd-tmpfiles and the configurations that ensure your system runs smoothly and stays clean

 Linuxize: Learn how to add a swap file on Ubuntu 20.04.

This guide will teach you how to find hard disk data transfer speed in Linux.

HowToForge: Seafile is an open-source file-hosting and cloud storage system similar to Dropbox

ostechnix: This guide lists various methods to find Hard disk drive details in Linux operating systems.

Tar is one of the most common tool used for archiving files in Linux.

Are your backups running too long?

 HowToForge: Learn how to install and configure the latest Nextcloud 18 release on an Ubuntu 20.04 server.

Block devices are significant components of the Linux kernel.

Unison is a file-synchronization tool similar to rsync

Learn how to setup NFS Server on CentOS 8 and RHEL 8 system.

Learn how to copy a file to multiple locations.

Expand your sysadmin skills with this introduction to the parted command.

Though it has been around for decades fdisk is still the go to storage management tool.

itsFOSS: This beginner tutorial discusses a few difficulties you may face while adding files and folders on the desktop screen on Ubuntu.

Block device encryption is used to secure the data on a block device by encrypting it, and to decrypt data, a user must supply a passphrase or key to access.

ostechnix: Starting from Kernel version 2.6.29, Linux can automatically detect SSDs.

You know that you're supposed to back up your data but what do you do with all the backups and archives you've created?

LVM (Logical Volume Management) is a flexible and advanced option available to manage hard disks in most of the major Linux distributions.

2DayGeek: This tutorial helps you to configure disk quota in Linux

Keeping your filesystems respectably clean is an ongoing task and there are pitfalls to avoid along the way.

Dropbox is a widely used software to share files in a cloud-based environment.

Explore the next step to logical volume management bliss by creating a volume group from your physical volumes.

This brief tutorial explains how to fix "exec format error" when running scripts with run-parts command in Linux operating systems.

In Linux 'cd' (Change Directory) command is one of the most important and most widely used commands

2DayGeek: Learn how to use the rsync and scp commands in reverse mode on Linux.

Create an air of interoperability in your network with Samba.

Logical volume management is still a mystery to some sysadmins.

Ars: The proprietary filesystem vendor unleashed a '90s-level torrent of FUD

Find out five backup and restore tips from someone who's been there, failed, and then succeeded.

We keep on accomplishing a task conventionally until we come to know that it can be done in a much better way the other way.

Phoronix: Cloudflare employs Linux disk encryption on their servers and with some optimizations have made it at least two times faster throughput while also lowering the latency.