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 [...]
Filesystem
13 Practical df Command Examples to Check Disk Space in Linux
The df command displays the disk space usage for the Linux filesystems. It displays the amount of total and free disk space available on the mounted file systems. Using the command, we can also find used blocks and inodes in [...]
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How to Encrypt Root Filesystem in Linux
An understanding of how your computer boots is required, because unlocking an encrypted root filesystem is integral to the bootstrap process. The current, stable kernel series, 2.6, optionally uses initramfs to help boot, Initramfs is a cpio archive that the [...]
9:14 am
Linux Reclaim Storage Space - Ext4 Unmap Feature
Its been a long time reclaiming space on block-level storage, been alerting and frustrating for all who work on the storage side. Block storage only knows about areas of a volume that have ever been written. If later the application [...]
8:06 am
Fix Grub2 Rescue Unknown Filesystem Error
GRUB is GRand Unified Bootloader, the default bootloader for Linux kernel-based Operating Systems. If you have a dual boot system, like Windows and Linux, then you may have some issues with GRUB. If you install Windows after Linux installation ( [...]
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Ext2 vs Ext3 vs Ext4 Filesystems in Linux
A filesystem is a way of storing, organizing and accessing files (and/or directories) on a storage device. Some examples of filesystems are FAT, NTFS for Windows/DOS, HFS for MAC OS etc. In Linux, the popular filesystems are ext2, ext3 and [...]
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How to Use fsck Command in Linux
As a system administrator, you will be called to manage the filesystems of the servers. Tuning a filesystem is a task that you’re likely to perform every once in a while when making major changes to an installation. The common [...]
8:28 am
How to Use df Command to List Filesystem Mount Points
In Linux df command is used to display the amount of total and free disk space available on the mounted file systems. Using df options you can find used blocks, inodes and free space available in the file system. In [...]
2:20 pm
Hard Mount vs Soft Mount in NFS with Example
Using NFS protocol, the NFS client can mount the filesystem existing on a NFS server, just like a local filesystem. For example, you will be able to mount “/home” directory of host.nfs_server.com to your client machine as follows: # mount [...]
11:56 pm
How to Find Unallocated Space on Linux
When managing a server, you can need to operate on data storage. To do it better, you can need to know how to manage unallocated disk space. Unallocated space is the unused space on the Hard disk which has not [...]
11:50 pm
How to Access/Mount Samba Share on Linux Command Line
Samba is a service in Linux that provides seamless file and print service to SMB/CIFS clients. One of the main features of Samba is that it allows interoperability between Linux/Unix servers and Windows-based clients. In general, you can share resource-like files [...]
11:39 pm
How to Create, Format and Mount Filesystems in Linux
A filesystem is an organization of data and metadata on the storage device. If you want to access any files in unix-like OS, the filesystem has to be mounted where the file resides. The well-know Linux filesystems are Ext, Ext2, [...]
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How to Create a New Disk Partition in Linux
Storage devices such as a hard disk or USB drives need to structured before start using it. Partitioning is the process of slicing the disk into one more separate region called a partition. Most importantly a partition is required to [...]
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