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How to Change System Restore Settings in Windows XP

By default, WindowsXP uses a large amount of hard drive space for storing system restore points. If this is not necessary, you can change the settings. Go to Start / Programs / Accessories / System Tools Run System Restore For each drive or partition, you can click on the Setting button to change how much [...]

How to Change the Location of the Documents Folder in Vista

If you would like to change the location of the Documents folder to a new location: Create the new location’s folder Click on the Start button Right click on My Documents Select Properties Click on the Location tab Click on Move and select the new location you just created For example, I prefer to keep [...]

How To List Down Linux Partition Tables

At times, listing down all partition tables and mounted linux devices gives us a better view of what storage devices and partition types does your linux box have. Here’s a simple approach on how to list down all linux partition tables and devices from your linux box. List Down Linux Partition Tables Simply issue # [...]

How and where to mount in Linux

Mounting is done with the mount command. When mounting, you must tell the mount command what is the device or partition you want to mount and what is the mount point. The mount point must be a directory that already exists on your system. For example, to mount your floppy: $ mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy In [...]

What is mounting in Linux

As you know, you can store your data in different physical storage devices, like floppies, CD-ROMs, and hard disk drives. Your hard disk or disks are also very likely split up into different partitions with different filesystems. If you’re migrating to Linux from Microsoft Windows, you’re probably used to accessing all your filesystems very easily: [...]

How to create a boot CD with the specified kernel in Linux

The kernel in Fedora Core 2 and higher is too big to fit on a floppy disk, so you’ll have to create a boot CD instead. Here are the steps. 1. Each installed kernel has a dedicated subdirectory for its modules in the /lib/modules directory. Get a listing of this directory. Here there are two [...]

How to Install Plesk on Linux and FreeBSD Systems

The Parallels Plesk Control Panel software package is a commercial web hosting automation program. Originally released under the U.S. company Plesk Inc. and designed in Novosibirsk, Russia, Plesk became an SWsoft product when SWsoft acquired Plesk Inc. in July 2003. If you have one or few servers to which you wish to install Plesk, you [...]

How to convert a table from one storage engine to another in MySQL

 MySQL supports several storage engines that act as handlers for different table types. MySQL storage engines include both those that handle transaction-safe tables and those that handle non-transaction-safe tables: MyISAM manages non-transactional tables. It provides high-speed storage and retrieval, as well as fulltext searching capabilities. MyISAM is supported in all MySQL configurations, and is the default storage engine [...]

How to Add Other Operating Systems to GRUB

Let me explain a bit about this command. The root (hd0,0) command will probably have to be changed in your case. “hd0″ is related to the hard disk. If you only have one hard drive (like most people) leave this alone. Now the second part after the comma is related to the actual partition

How to Boost performance by a good partitioning scheme

Although a PC used for writing doesn’t need to be a high-performance computer, its performance can be improved by a good partitioning scheme. The biggest boost comes from my Paging partition on drive H, which is found on my second physical disk. I use this partition to boost performance in the following ways: Move the [...]

How to Preserve Websense Express Log Data Beyond 30 Days

Websense Express protects against potential data storage issues and performance degradation by limiting the size of the Log Database. This database contains partitions that roll over every day. When a partition is 30 days old, it is deleted automatically.If your organization requires that data older than 30 days be preserved, you can export reports to [...]

How to watch the disk space with Shell Script

df displays the amount of disk space available on the file system containing each file name argument. If no file name is given, the space available on all currently mounted file systems is shown. Read man page of df if you are new to df command. Steps => Find disk space using df => Filter [...]

How to Monitor File Systems in Red Hat Linux

Red Hat Linux provides a utility called diskcheck that monitors the amount of free disk space on the system. Based on the configuration file, it will send email to the system administrator when one or more disk drives reach a specified capacity. To use this utility, you must have the diskcheck RPM package installed. This utility is run as [...]