Linux Today - Storage

gdu (Go Disk Usage) is very similar to ncdu, a popular console disk usage analyzer, with one major difference: speed.

The Linux find command is one of the most important and handy commands in Linux systems. Here's how you can use it to find files in Linux.

Rescuezilla 2.1 comes two months after version 2.0, but it's not just a point release

Let's jump forward 5 years. What happened to DFileManager in the intervening period?

2DayGeek: This quick article shows you how to identify file types in Linux.

delete all files in a directory or simply cleanup a directory by removing all files except files of a given type (ending with a particular extension).

2DayGeek: This quick article shows you how to remove physical volume from a volume group in LVM.

Fedora Linux 33 was released last week with some interesting changes

Want to try Fedora Linux without disturbing your current operating system?

This brief guide explains how to edit a file without changing its timestamps in Linux.

What partition setup should you use when installing Linux?

Take a look at a few common and useful DNF and APT operations.

Here is a simple Bash function to extract file archives of various types in Linux.

The rmmod command is used to remove Linux kernel modules.

In this article, I will show you different methods to format a USB drive on the command-line and on Debian Desktop.

Compressed files with the .zip extension are commonplace throughout Windows systems, as it's been the native file compression method for the operating system since many years ago.

colorls is a command-line utility that aims to improve on ls. color is written in Ruby.

This article describes how to explore and extract different type of information from binary files of ELF format using PyElftools

Learn how to install and configure an FTP server on Raspberry Pi that you use to share files between your devices.

Wildcards (also referred to as meta characters) are symbols or special characters that represent other characters.

The live-disk distribution Parted Magic released its latest version. In this release Parted Magic officially migrates from the OpenBox to the XFCE desktop environment.

PostgreSQL provides the pg_dump utility to help you back up databases. It generates a database file with SQL commands in a format that can be easily restored in the future.

USBImager is a simple graphical application used to write the ISO images as well as compressed disk images to USB drives.

Learn how you can use a USB device in your Debian system by manually mounting in your system.

how to find all files in a directory that has been changed in the last N minutes or days

Oracle Linux Kernel engineer Alan Adamson provides an introduction to connecting NVMe flash storage using TCP.

A storage design that checks whether the returned data is valid and not silently corrupted inside a storage system, designed with Linux components.

How about a sysadmin tool that helps you to "relax and recover?" ReaR does that.

In this tutorial we will learn a very useful technique we can use to perform incremental backups, and schedule them using the good old cron.

Clonezilla is one of the greatest open source backup tools for Linux.

There are terminal utilities available in Linux which can help you to manage hard disk bad sectors. You can scan and mark them as unusable as well using these utilities.

Learn how to securely run a MariaDB database container from the home directory.

Explore the Linux file system table and some configuration basics.

It's very easy (and equally essential) to automatically backup your important files without you having to remember to do so.

Rescuezilla 1.0.6 is the first release of this lightweight GNU/Linux distribution for backing up and rescuing operating systems to introduce a 64-bit version that features UEFI/SecureBoot support.

"Slaves" becomes "dependents" under the change.

The June 2020 Apps update ships with Kup 0.8, a hefty release that introduces a new way to store rsync type backups.

Cryptmount is a powerful utility that allows any user to access encrypted file systems on-demand under GNU/Linux systems without requiring root privileges.

What's so important about inodes that I need to keep an eye on them? Find out in this introductory article.

The Linux Mint distribution team put out another of their monthly updates, and this month was quite interesting with their anti-Snap plans.