In this tutorial you will learn how to increase disk size on VirtualBox. One of the great things about installing an operating system into a virtual machine is that we can easily change the machine’s CPU utilization limit, its memory usage, and the amount of hard drive space it has. With VirtualBox, all of these hardware specifications can even be changed long after the virtual machine is created.
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Megatools Linux install and Basic Introduction
This tutorial will deal with Megatools Linux install and Basic Introduction. MEGA is one of the most famous cloud storage and file hosting services available. The service offered by the company are normally accessible via web interface or dedicated applications also on smartphone operating systems such as Android or iOS. In this article we see how to access the service from the command line via a free and open source set of tools written in Python: Megatools.
wipefs Linux command tutorial with examples
The wipefs Linux command utility can be used to erase various types of signatures from a device (partition tables, filesystem signatures, etc…). It is available in the repository of all the most used Linux distributions, and it is usually installed by default as part of of the util-linux package, which contains also other essentials utilities aimed at system maintenance, so we should never have to install it explicitly. In this tutorial we will see how to use wipefs to gather information about the existing signatures and how to erase them.
How to manipulate gpt partition tables with gdisk and sgdisk on Linux
GPT is the acronym for GUID Partition Table: it is the new standard for storage devices: it is part of the UEFI firmware specifications and the successor of MBR, of which it overcomes several limitations. MBR for example, allows a maximum of 4 primary partitions (GPT supports up to 128 of them),
NFS vs SAMBA vs CIFS
NFS, SAMBA, and CIFS are three different terms that get thrown around a lot whenever someone mentions file sharing between two or more systems. But, do you know what these three implementations do, and how they do it differently from one another? For some reason these technologies remain in a shroud of mystery to even some seasoned system administrators.
Linux Backup Restore Destroy and Install MBR – Master Boot Record
Master Boot Record (MBR) is a type of boot loader that tells a system how the partitions on a disk are organized. Although MBR has been superseded by GUID Partition Table in recent years, MBR is still very prevalent across many systems. Without a boot loader, your system will have a hard time booting into your operating system – whichever Linux distro that may be. As such, it can be useful to learn how to back up and restore the MBR on Linux.
In this guide, we’ll be going over the commands used to backup, restore, destroy, and install MBR to a disk on Linux. Check out the examples below to learn how.
In this tutorial you will learn:
- How to manage MBR on Linux
Search the contents of compressed gzip archive file on Linux
Archives compressed with gzip have the .tar.gz or .tgz file extension. It’s easy enough to extract the contents from these files, but what if you only need a certain file? There’s not much sense in extracting hundreds or thousands of files from an archive if you’re only looking for a few files.
Fortunately, we can utilize the Linux command line and even GUI archive managers to search the contents of gzip compressed archives. Once we identify the file we want, it’s possible to extract the file by itself, rather than extracting every single file.
In this guide, we’ll show how to search one or multiple gzip archives for a particular file from both command line and GUI.
In this tutorial you will learn:
- How to search the contents of a compressed gzip archive via command line
- How to search the contents of a compressed gzip archive via GUI
- How to search the contents of multiple gzip archives
- How to extract a particular file from a gzip archive
List all directories and sort by size
When it comes to tidying up your hard drive on Linux, either to free up space or to become more organized, it’s helpful to identify which directories are consuming the most storage space.
In this guide, we’ll show you how to list all directories and sort them by their total size on Linux, through command line examples, a Bash script, and GUI methods.
In this tutorial you will learn:
- How to list directories by size with
ducommand examples - How to list directories by size with a Bash script
- How to check directory sizes with Disk Usage Analyzer GUI utility
Introduction to Ranger file manager
Ranger is a free and open source file manager written in Python. It is designed to work from the command line and its keybindings are inspired by the Vim text editor. The application has a lot of features and, working together with other utilities, can display previews for a vast range of files. In this tutorial we learn how to use it, and explore some of its functionality.
In this tutorial you will learn:
- How to install Ranger on the most used Linux distributions
- How to launch Ranger and copy its configuration files locally
- Ranger basic movements and keybindings
- How to visualize hidden files
- How to get preview of various types of documents
- How to create, access and remove bookmarks
- How to select files and perform actions on them
How to mount partition with ntfs file system and read write access
NTFS stands for New Technology File System and is created by Microsoft for use on their Windows operating systems. It doesn’t see much use on Linux systems, but has been the default file system on Windows for many years. Linux users are probably used to seeing drives with the ext4 file system, which is normally the default and definitely the most widespread in the Linux world.
Although NTFS is a proprietary file system meant especially for Windows, Linux systems still have the ability to mount partitions and disks that have been formatted as NTFS. Thus a Linux user could read and write files to the partition as easily as they could with a more Linux-oriented file system. This can be particularly handy in situations where you recover a disk from a Windows machine and wish to read the contents from your Linux system.
In this guide, we’ll show command line examples of how to mount NTFS partitions on any Linux distribution. This will include examples for mounting with only read access, or read and write access, as well as temporary mounting or persistent mounts that will survive future reboots. Read on to learn how.
In this tutorial you will learn:
- How to install ntfs-3g and fuse on all major Linux distros
- How to mount NTFS formatted partition on Linux
- How to persistently mount NTFS partition
- How to mount NTFS partition with read only and read and write access
How to encrypt partition in Linux
One of the best ways to protect your files on a Linux system is to enable hard disk encryption. It’s possible to encrypt an entire hard drive or partition, which will keep every file that resides there safe. Without the correct decryption key, prying eyes will only be able to see cryptic gibberish when they try to read your files.
In this guide, we’ll go over the step by step instructions of using LUKS to encrypt a Linux partition. Regardless of what Linux distro you’re running, these steps should work the same. Follow along with us below to get partition encryption configured on your own system.
In this tutorial you will learn:
- How to install cryptsetup on major Linux distros
- How to create an encrypted partition
- How to mount or unmount encrypted partition
- How to setup disk encryption during Linux install
How to configure, mount, and access encrypted partition on Linux
How to setup raid1 on Linux
RAID stands for Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks; depending on the RAID level we setup, we can achieve data replication and/or data distribution. A RAID setup can be achieved via dedicated hardware or via software. In this tutorial we see how to implement a RAID1 (mirror) via software on Linux, using
the mdadm utility.
In this tutorial you will learn:
- The peculiarities of the most used RAID levels
- How to install mdadm on the major Linux distributions
- How to configure a RAID1 with two disks
- How to replace a disk in the RAID array