Linux Today - Storage

Swap-partition holds the memory which is used in case the physical memory (RAM) is full .

Installing Nextcloud on your server using snapd is the simplest approach by far...but then how do you manage it when things go wrong?

The du command in Linux is used for checking the size of directory.

2DayGeek: Learn how to backup MySQL/MariaDB database right from Linux terminal using shell script.

2DayGeek: Learn how to check MySQL/MariaDB database and table size in Linux.

So you would like to add more swap space in Redhat 7 or Centos 7 after installation....

NetworkWorld: Some files on a Linux system can appear in more than one location.

EnterpriseStorageForum: Do you know the differences between a PCIe SSD and a SATA SSD?

Monitoring storage device(s) space usage is one of the most important tasks of a SysAdmin

HowToForge: Network File System (NFS) is a popular distributed filesystem protocol that enables users to mount remote directories on their server.

LinuxUprising: Snaps are an easy way to install software, but what do you do with the old stuff?

Making Linux partitions is one of the toughest tasks for new Linux users.

ostechnix: Duc is a collection of tools that can be used to index, inspect and visualize disk usage on Unix-like operating systems.

EnterpriseStorageForum: Business Impact Analysis is a core element of IT risk management identifying potential impact of data loss and helping to define maximum tolerable downtime.

Filesystems are responsible for organizing how data is stored and recovered.

rsync command is used to sync (or copy) files and directories locally and remotely.

2DayGeek: Learn how to count the files based on the extension or pattern or group in Linux.

File compression is a way to create archives that help us in saving time, creating space and downloading and transferring software and data faster.

LinuxUprising: USBmount is a set of scripts used to automatically mount USB mass storage devices when they are plugged in.

 Check out this list of the best file and disk encryption software for your Linux machine.

 HowToForge: Learn how to backup the data on a server, denominated as the main server, to another host

Learn how to recover a deleted file

ostechnix: Compress and decompress files using gzip and bzip2 programs on Linux.

HowToForge: This tutorial will show you how to mount an NTFS drive ina read/write mode on CentOS and other RHEL based Linux operating systems with ntfs-3g driver.

Many times we need to clone/transfer database from one server to another.

 HowToForge: This guide shows how to install and configure the free backup software restic on Debian Buster to store off-site backups at the cloud storage company Wasabi

iostat is used to get the input/output statistics for storage devices and partitions. i

HowToForge: If you have set up MySQL replication, you probably know this problem: sometimes there are invalid MySQL queries which cause the replication to not work anymore.

MakeTechEasier: Using Dropbox on Linux used to be very easy.

eWEEK: Portworx Enterprise 2.1 adds new capabilities to its' cloud-native Kubernetes data management platform, improving resilience and security.

CouchPotato helps you in downloading movies automatically, easily and in the best quality as soon as they are available

Linuxize: ZIP is the most widely used archive file format that supports lossless data compression

Seth Godin recently argued that more marketing data is not always better:

Advanced-Copy is a powerful command line program which is very much similar, but little modified version of original cp command.

SCP and SFTP are two secure alternatives for FTP.

2DayGeek: These commands inform the OS about partition table changes in Linux.

Phoronix: The EXT4 changes for this next Linux kernel release doesn't offer up any notable features but is predominantly comprised of bug fixes and clean-ups.

Virtual filesystems are the magic abstraction that makes the "everything is a file" philosophy of Linux possible.

LinuxUprising: When you create a regular Linux live USB, you can install software, download files, make changes to the system, and so on, but all of these changes are lost after a reboot.