Grub is a boot loader for many Linux distributions which basically tells your system where it can find installed operating system(s) on one or more hard drives. Your PC needs this information in order to boot into your Linux distro successfully. If grub becomes corrupted, one such error you may come across is "error: no such partition grub rescue."
This error most commonly arises when resizing or rearranging the partitions of a hard drive, as is necessary with dual boot in Ubuntu or dual boot in Manjaro, for example. If you've received this error out of the blue (i.e. you haven't made any recent changes to your hard drive), it could be a sign of the hard drive going bad.
Regardless of the cause, we've written this guide to help you get your Linux system back up and running. In this article, we'll give you the step by step instructions to fix the dreaded "no such partition" grub error.
In this tutorial you will learn:
How to fix grub error: no such partition grub rescue
In previous articles, we already talked about how we can perform local and remote backups using rsync and how to setup the rsync daemon. In this tutorial we will learn a very useful technique we can use to perform incremental backups, and schedule them using the good old cron.
Systemd is nowadays the init system adopted by almost all Linux distributions, from Red Hat Enterprise Linux to Debian and Ubuntu. One of the things that made Systemd the target of a lot of critics is that it tries to be a lot more than a simple init system and tries to re-invent some Linux subsystems.
The traditional logging system used on Linux, for example was rsyslog, a modern version of the traditional syslog. Systemd introduced its own logging system: it is implemented by a daemon, journald, which stores logs in binary format into a “journal”, which can be queried by the journalctl utility.
In this tutorial we will learn some parameters we can use to modify the journald daemon behavior, and some examples of how to query the journal and format the output resulting from said queries.
In this tutorial you will learn:
How to change default journald settings
How journald can coexist with syslog
How to query the journal and some ways to format the queries output
There are times when it’s useful to inspect what a running application is doing under the hood, and what system calls it is performing during its execution. To accomplish such a task on Linux, we can use the strace utility. In this article we will see how to install it and we will learn its basic usage.
In this tutorial you will learn:
How to install strace
How to use strace to trace system calls made by a process
In this guide, we go through the steps to format an SD or USB disk in Linux. This can be done via GUI or command line, and we'll cover the process for both. The guide will be applicable regardless of what Linux distribution you've decided to use, especially the command line method.
This will wipe all the data from your USB or SD disk and get it ready for use under Linux or another system. It's also used to clear the device before creating a bootable live USB drive.
Manjaro is an up and coming Linux distribution that has recently overtaken some of the most popular and battle scarred distributions like Ubuntu, Fedora, Mint, and others (at least according to DistroWatch).
Once you've decided to download Manjaro and see what all the rage is about, we've got you covered in this beginner's guide, which will provide you with an introduction to the operating system and show you the first things to do once you've booted into Manjaro. If you're just looking to give Manjaro a test run, you can always install Manjaro in a virtual machine or create a dual boot system.
In this tutorial you will learn:
Background information of Manjaro
How to install Manjaro
How to update Manjaro
How to install additional software on Manjaro
How to perform basic administration tasks on Manjaro
Netcat is a versatile networking utility which can be used for reading from and writing to TCP and UDP connections on arbitrary ports (as with other utilities used on Linux, ports below 1024 require root/sudo privileges). By default netcat uses TCP connections, but UDP can be specified with the -u flag. Netcat can be used as both a server and a client. When used as a server the -l flag is used to listen for a connection. Similar to the cat command, netcat can receive information from stdin and write to stdout making it great for workflows involving pipes and redirects. The nc command is typically used to evoke netcat for ease of use.
In this tutorial you will learn how to do the following with netcat:
Many developers and programmers choose Manjaro because it's one of the most user-friendly and feature-rich Linux distributions. In this guide, we go over the steps to install the Java Development Kit on Manjaro Linux. We'll show you how to install both the OpenJDK package (which is free and GPL-licensed) as well as Oracle Java SE Development Kit.
Arch Linux and Manjaro only officially support the OpenJDK, as that is the non-proprietary version. However, the Oracle package can be installed from the AUR, as you'll see shortly.
Printing in Manjaro and the majority of other Linux distributions is handled through the CUPS system. After installing Manjaro Linux, setting up a printer is one of the first tasks that many users will need to tackle.
In this guide, we will guide you through the process of setting up a printer on Manjaro Linux. CUPS makes the process a lot more painless than many other alternative methods, so that's what we'll be using.
In this tutorial you will learn:
How to install and enable printer software (CUPS)
How to configure printer automatically with HP Device Manager or CUPS
How to manually setup a printer
How to access print jobs, printers, and CUPS documentation
Installing Manjaro inside a VirtualBox virtual machine is a great way to give the operating system a test run or to install some Linux software that you don't want to run on your main system. If you're a Windows user, this is also a convenient way to stick a toe in the water with Linux, with the other option being to dual boot Windows 10 and Manjaro.
Manjaro is a user friendly Linux distribution with a lot of features to offer. In this tutorial, we'll guide you through the installation of Manjaro on a virtual machine and show you the best configuration options to get the most out of the VM.
In this tutorial you will learn:
How to install Manjaro in a VirtualBox virtual machine
When you download Manjaro, you can choose from quite a few different desktop environments, such as XFCE, KDE, GNOME, etc. But it's also possible to forego a desktop environment altogether and install to disk from the command line version of Manjaro, which is known as the Architect edition. This will give the operating system a much closer feel to its ancestor, Arch Linux, which only has a command line installer available. You'll still get to choose a GUI during the installation, if you'd like.
The main advantage of the Architect edition of Manjaro is that it gives users a lot more control over the installation process. You get to choose the best download mirrors, which drivers to install (free or proprietary), a desktop environment, shell, and more granular control over other options not normally available in the typical installers of some Linux distributions. It's also a much smaller ISO file, since packages are downloaded from the internet during installation rather than being extracted from the ISO file as they are on GUI editions of Manjaro. This also means you get the latest packages available and your ISO file never becomes outdated.
In this tutorial, we'll guide you through the process of installing Manjaro Architect edition. This guide assumes that you've already obtained the Architect ISO file and created a bootable USB drive or other form of installation media.
Since Manjaro is based off of Arch Linux, it inherits the amazing perk of having access to the Arch User Repository (AUR). If you don't know about the AUR, it's basically a huge repository of community submitted packages. If you've worked with PPAs on Ubuntu in the past, it's a lot like a centralized version of that... but it's much easier and safer as you'll see.
Of course, Manjaro has its official repository like any other Linux distribution, but having the AUR as an option allows you to install virtually any package, whether it's officially availale in pacman or not. If a package performs well enough in the AUR and meets certain standards, it can be absorbed into an official repository and be directly insalled via pacman.
In this tutorial, we'll guide you through the process of installing a package from the AUR. This involves searching for a desired package and then installing it either from GUI or command line. We'll show you methods for both below.
In this tutorial you will learn:
How to install a package from AUR via GUI
How to install a package from AUR via command line
It's important to keep your Manjaro system up to date in order to make sure that you have the latest security updates and newest features. Manjaro is based off of Arch Linux. These are two Linux distributions that sit on the bleeding edge, meaning that the developers are always pushing the latest and greatest feature updates, but it's up to you to retrieve them. In this guide, we'll show you how to do exactly that.
Manjaro is on a rolling release cycle, so you never have to download a new version of Manjaro or worry about your current install reaching its end of life. Keeping Manjaro up to date can be done with a few clicks via GUI or a few keystrokes via the command line, and is very simple to do. Since Manjaro is on a rolling release schedule, updating Manjaro is just a matter of instructing your package manager to install all the latest versions of the software on your system. Package dependencies, conflicts, and outdated software are taken care of automatically. Let's get started.
There's a lot of network configuration that can be done on Manjaro Linux. Configuring DHCP, static IP addresses, default gateway, DNS, firewall, and other network settings can all be done from either GUI or command line. In this guide, we'll show you a few methods for configuring the networking on your own system.
In this tutorial you will learn:
How to access network information
How to configure DHCP or static IP address
How to configure default gateway, DNS, and other settings
Email reader programs such as Thunderbird or Evolution are great, but sometimes they can feel bloated. If you found yourself working mainly from CLI, you may find useful to learn how to install and configure Mutt, a command line email client: that’s what we will do in this tutorial.
In this tutorial you will learn:
How to install Mutt
How to configure Mutt to be used with a gmail account
How to store sensitive information in an encrypted file and source it from the main Mutt configuration
How to setup some macros to easily switch between mailbox directories
