June 15, 2009
If found a decent little guide for using two command line utilities du and df.
- du shows you the disk usage of a folder — that is, how much space the contents of a give folder are taking up.
- df shows you the disk free space of your file system and gives the output in columns that indicate the size, used space, available space, and percentage of used space.
Check out How to find – Size of a directory & Free disk space for the guide.
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January 11, 2009
I found a great article at eHow that explains how to partition a hard drive and set up the file system on it.
This article explains how to format a hard drive in Linux using the standard commands fdisk, mkfs, and fsck. The procedure described can be used either to format a secondary hard drive or to format a drive prior to system installation.
Check out the full article here.
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October 23, 2008
Since I’ve had so much bad luck with wireless cards and laptops lately (my last attempt endedup in kernel panic,) I decided to figure out how to back up and restore my hard drive image. This way I won’t have to keep popping the install CD in and putting my installation back to square 0, thereby losing all my configurations.
Apparently, in Linux, it’s really easy to capture a tar ball of your entire partition and then just unpack the tar ball onto the partition if you break something and need to restore.
Check out this guide on the Ubuntu forums: Howto: Backup and restore your system!
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October 1, 2008
Since the wicd update that borked my wireless management yesterday, I have successfully restored the program to an earlier version (link). However, the update notifier keeps nagging me about the fact that wicd has a new release. Not one for nagging, I poked around until I figured out how to make it stop.
If you find the package in Synaptic Package Manager, select it and the open up the Package menu (in the top menu bar) you will see an option to “lock” the package. Selecting this box will tell Synaptic/Apt that you don’t want to update the package. The icon next to the package name in the main window of Synaptic will change from one with a star (indicating an out-of-date package) to one with a lock (indicating — obviously — a locked package).
Just for good measure, I closed Synaptic and opened the Update Manager and did a check for updates in order to refresh the list (and get the wicd update out of the list). And now my update notifier no longer nags me from the panel.
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