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Find and Clean up Duplicate Files in Linux
Jan 3rd
FSlint has both a GUI as well as a command line interface. Aside from finding duplicate files, FsLint is also capable of searching for problematic filenames, temporary files, bad symlinks, empty directories and non-stripped binaries. So let me show you how to install and use FsLint.
Open Source Backup Software for Linux
Jan 1st
BackupPC is a Disk-to-disk backup software suite that is considered as one of the most popular free and open-source backup software. It has a web-based frontend with no need for client as the server is itself a client for several protocols, which are handled by other services native to the client OS. BackupPC is using a combination of hard links to reduce the total disk space utilized for files. During the first full backup, each and every file is transferred to the backend, optionally compressed, and then compared. All similar files are hard linked and use only one additional directory entry.
Linux Kernel Performance and Tuning with vm.swappiness
Dec 29th
vm.swappiness is a tunable kernel parameter that controls how much the kernel favors swap over RAM. At the source code level, it’s also defined as the tendency to steal mapped memory. A high swappiness value means that the kernel will be more apt to unmap mapped pages. A low swappiness value means the opposite, the kernel will be less apt to unmap mapped pages. In other words, the higher the vm.swappiness value, the more the system will swap.
Reset Forgotten MySQL Root Password
Dec 29th
mysqladmin utility from a command line to set the new password.
GRUB Password Setting in Linux
Dec 29th
You can set a password for the GRUB boot loader. This prevents users from rescue or Singe-User mode or changing settings at boot time.
Test Memory Using memtester in Linux
Dec 29th
memtester is a user-space utility for testing the memory subsystem in a computer to determine if it is faulty. It does a good job of finding intermittent faults and non-deterministic faults. It has many tests to help catch borderline memory. memtester should compile and run on any 32- or 64-bit Unix or Unix-like system.
Burn CD or DVD as a non-root user in Debian
Dec 29th
If you wish to allow non-root users to write CDs or DVDs, you must first give them permissions to do so.
Convert DEB to RPM or RPM to DEB Package
Dec 29th
You can convert DEB file to RPM package and RPM to DEB package using alien command, if you have a *.rpm file that you want to install on a Debian or Ubuntu.
Hard Drive Tuning with hdparm
Dec 24th
hdparm provides a command line interface to various kernel interfaces supported by the Linux SATA/PATA/SAS “libata” subsystem and the older IDE driver subsystem. Many newer (2008 and later) USB drive enclosures now also support “SAT” (SCSI-ATA Command Translation) and therefore may also work with hdparm.