partitions

How to determine your free disk space in Linux

The first command we’ll look at is the “df” command. It comes bundled with all distributions of Linux. “df” stands for “disk free”. It gives you a reading of the state of all your partitions. It gives you the total disk space, the used space, the space available, and then the percentage of space being [...]

NTLDR or NTDETECT.COM Not Found

If you get an error that NTLDR is not found during bootup, If you have FAT32 partitions, it is much simpler than with NTFS. Just boot with a Win98 floppy and copy the NTLDR or NTDETECT.COM files from the i386 directory to the root of the C:\ drive. For NTFS: Insert and boot from your [...]

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 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 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 Publish Configuration Manager Site Information to Active Directory Domain Services

Before Configuration Manager can publish site data to Active Directory Domain Services, the Active Directory schema must be extended to create the necessary classes and attributes, the System Management container must be created, and the primary site server’s computer account must be granted full control of the System Management container and all of its child objects. Each site publishes its own site-specific information to the System Management container within its domain partition in the Active Directory schema.

50 quick linux command tips part 2

As root 1. How to have a stop watch scenario from command line terminal? # time cat Press Ctrl+C 2. How to measure the time of executing any executable command? # time firefox wait 5 seconds and close the application 3. How to CD to a user’s home directory? # cd ~userhome 4. How to [...]

How to take Linux backups powered by Tar

This document entry however covers a foundation approach and mostly used tar arguments on backing up data using the linux command tar. ============================================= Data backup samples using Tar Linux command ============================================= A very simple usage of tar # tar cvf backup.tar * Legend: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -c create a new tar file -v verbose mode -f select [...]

How to take Linux backups powered by Rsync

RSync backups data and does it very clean and well. Rsync only transfers those data that have been modified and changed so that the destination host has an exact replica from the source host. Rysnc is a command line backup tool that handles data transfers in an effective and secure manner like any other known [...]

How to Get Linux Disk Space and Usage

Here’s is a command that shows several usage and ways of retrieving disk space usage. This disk space usage command is another abused and bypassed linux command that has been repeated over and over again from samples and old linux blog entries among the blog entries around here. Here’s a quick run covering details and [...]

How to Create Vanishing Virtual Drive

You can work with your hard drives, network drives and other external or USB storage devices accomplishing critical linux hacks. Yes, technology nowadays have enabled us to make use of larger and more stable storage capacity drives and devices. Most firms and company services enjoy the benefits of having them as part of their IT [...]