One of the recommended ways of boosting your server's performance and avoiding running out of memory is by creating a swap space or swap file. Swap is virtual memory located on your hard disk and extends the RAM when the [...]
FILE SYSTEM
How to Recover Deleted File Using ext3grep on Ubuntu
Sometimes, especially on the command line, it happens that you delete a file or directory unintentionally. Ext3grep is a solution to recover deleted files. Ext3grep fetches information from the file system journal for recovering the deleted files or directory. Ext3grep can recover [...]
How to Install ZFS on Ubuntu Linux 17.04
The ZFS file system was officially supported in Ubuntu 16.04 and earlier we have shown how to install on centos 7. Though it's not installed and enabled by default it's available in Ubuntu's repositories. ZFZ is an advanced 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 [...]
A Guide to Install and Use ZFS on CentOS 7
ZFS, the short form of Zettabyte Filesystem is an advanced and highly scalable filesystem. It was originally developed by Sun Microsystems and is now part of the OpenZFS project. With so many filesystems available on Linux, it is quite natural [...]
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
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 tools that you may use anyone of them according to your needs and comfort. Whether you’re using Linux on [...]
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 [...]