Linux Today - Storage

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Tecmint: If you are running a dual-boot of Ubuntu and Windows, sometimes you might fail to access a Windows partition (formatted with NTFS or FAT32 filesystem type), while using Ubuntu

ostechnix: This brief tutorial describes how move multiple file types simultaneously using 'mv' command in Unix-like operating systems.

The DRBD (stands for Distributed Replicated Block Device) is a distributed, flexible and versatile replicated storage solution for Linux.

LinuxHandbook: Here are different commands which can list the hard drives in Linux.

netcat can be used as an ad-hoc solution for transferring files through local networks.

Tecmint: ext3grep is a simple program for recovering files on an EXT3 filesystem.

LinuxUprising: SparkleShare is an open source cloud storage, file synchronization and collaboration client application that uses Git as the storage backend.

HowToForge: The gzip command is a popular tool used for compressing/decompressing files in Linux.

Popular lossless compression tools include gzip, bzip2, and xz.

Kerneltalks: On *nix systems the /etc/services file plays a key role.

LinuxJournal: Learn the fundamentals of sorting and de-duplicating text on the command line.

2DayGeek: Three ways to identify the file types in Linux.

 HowToForge: Brotli is a generic-purpose lossless compression algorithm that compresses data using a combination of a modern variant of the LZ77 algorithm.

2DayGeek: DriveSync is a command line utility that synchronizes your files between local system and Google Drive via command line.

LinuxLinks: fdupes finds duplicate files in a given set of directories and sub-directories.

Learn how to install Aptik backup program on your Ubuntu system and how to use it to backup Ubuntu Applications.

NetworkWorld: Linux distributions provide quite a few useful commands for gauging disk activity.

Tecmint: People often need to copy or share files over the network

LinuxLinks: Clonezilla is a free and open source ncurses partition and disk imaging/cloning program.

Swap is a space on a disk that is used when the amount of physical RAM memory is full.

Tecmint: In this short tutorial, you are going to learn how to change the UUID of a Linux partition.

Tecmint: Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) is a disk image file format which represents a virtual hard disk drive, capable of storing the complete contents of a physical hard drive.

Learn how you can backup and recover a PostgreSQL cluster with multiple tablespaces in very few steps.

 Learn about GParted, a graphical and command-line disk partition tool.

 Learn how to remove or add USB and other mounted volume icons from the Ubuntu desktop.

 HowToForge: Riak is a distributed NoSQL database that offers high-availability, fault tolerance, operational simplicity, and scalability

rsync is a Linux CLI to copy or sync files between location A and B where location A and B can differ from network, host or device type

This article describes how you can use the for loop in bash to extract multiple archive files through the Ubuntu command line.

Tecmint: There are many reasons why you may want to clone a Linux partition or even hard drive, most of which are related to creating backups of your data.

MakeTechEasier: Most Linux distros have migrated to systemd, which comes with a different log daemon, journald.

mv command in Linux is used for moving and renaming files and directories.

NetworkWorld: Tarballs provide a versatile way to back up and manage groups of files on Linux systems.

As Linux administrators, we need to view the partition table of our hard disk time and again.

LinuxLinks: Timeshift is a GTK3-based, open source, system restore utility which takes incremental snapshots of the system using rsync and hard-links.

2DayGeek: Use following commands to find or search files and folders in Linux.

A backup is the last defense against data loss, offering a means to restore original data.

Part of the LFCS exam covers archiving, compressing, unarchiving and uncompressing files.

Disks, or Gnome Disk Utility, is installed by default in many Linux distributions, including Ubuntu, Fedora, both Linux Mint Cinnamon and MATE, Xubuntu, and so on.