If you need to keep an eye on the use of your PC's disks, here's how to install the SpaceView indicator to see disk space on Linux. SpaceView indicator is an Ubuntu gauge that displays the use of the file [...]
FILE SYSTEM
30 Most Frequently Used Hadoop HDFS Shell Commands
In this tutorial, we will walk you through the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) commands you will need to manage files on HDFS. HDFS command is used most of the times when working with Hadoop File System. It includes various shell-like commands [...]
How to Setup Snapshots and Clones in ZFS on Linux
Notable new feature in Ubuntu 16.04 is addition of ZFS file system. This file system have long time been dubbed a Solaris' killer feature. It has been ported over to Linux but it wont be integrated into mainline kernel due [...]
How to Manage Btrfs Filesystem in Linux
Btrfs, also pronounced as 'Butter FS' or 'B-tree FS', is a copy-on-write(CoW) filesystem for Linux. It is GPL licensed and focuses on providing features like scalability, data integrity, defragmentation and fault tolerance among others. In this article, let us learn [...]
Howto Configure Ubuntu 14.04 to Native ZFS Root Filesystem
Hello everybody, today we are going to setup Ubuntu to a Native ZFS root file which is an advanced file system and logical volume manager designed to overcome many of the major problems found in previous designs which is designed [...]
Create / Mount / Manage XFS Filesystem on Fedora 22
XFS is a 64-bit journaling filesystem that was created by Silicon Graphics, Inc (SGI) in the year 1993. It is a high performance and highly scalable filesystem and was ported to the Linux kernel in 2001. Since then, many Linux [...]
Install and Configure GlusterFS in CentOS 7 on AArch64
This article explains the process of installing and configuring CentOS 7 with GlusterFS on AArch64. GlusterFS is an open source and scale-out filesystem which combines multiple storage servers using Infiband or TCP and makes one large network filesystem. Requirements To configure [...]
How to Use tmpfs on RHEL / CentOS 7.0
Today we will talk about tmpfs CentOS 7 a file system that will keep all files and folders in the virtual memory of the operating system as opposed to actually writing them to the disk. This means that all the [...]
Rclone - Sync File and Directories to Cloud Storage in Linux
Hi all, today we'll learn what is Rclone and how to install it in our Linux Based Operating System. Rclone is a command line program to sync files and directories to and from Google Drive, Amazon S3, Openstack Swift / Rackspace cloud files [...]
How to Find and Remove Duplicate Files on Linux
Hi all, today we're gonna learn how to find and remove duplicate files on you Linux PC or Server. So, here's a tool that you may use anyone of them according to your needs and comfort. Whether you’re using Linux [...]
How to Create Btrfs Filesystem in Linux and its Features
Btrfs (B-tree file system) is a new CoW (copy-on-write) file system for Linux. It's development began at Oracle Corporation in 2007 and it was marked as stable in August 2014. The purpose of Btrfs is to address the lack of [...]
How to Install / Test Linux Filesystem Performance with Bonnie++
Today I will show you how to install and use Bonnie++, a free file system performance testing tool for Linux and Unix-like operating systems. It is a test suite that is aimed at performing a number of simple tests on [...]
How to Create, Mount and Extend xfs Filesystem
XFS is a high-performance 64-bit journaling file system created by SGI in 1993. It was introduced in the Linux kernel in 2001, XFS is supported by most Linux distributions, some of which use it as the default file system (RHEL/CentOS [...]
How To Create or Display Hidden Files / Folders in Linux
Here we will discuss how to create and display hidden files and folders in linux/Unix Operating Systems. Mostly our favorite 'ls' command doesn't display hidden files or folders in linux. If any file's name starts from '.' prefix (for ex: [...]