The find command is Linux is seriously cool. It allows you to do so much more than simply locate where a file lives. You can also do nifty stuff like delete all the temporary files on your whole hard drive, find broken links, delete empty files, search within files, and more. You can read about [...]

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I love most things about the great and powerful Linux; however, there are some things that will get you into some serious trouble. File recover in Linux is non-trivial, so it’s best to not delete something unless you are sure you want it. Unfortunately, it’s very easy to type ‘rm * .tmp’ instead of ‘rm [...]

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I’ve always been an Open Source fan, but I must say that I am particularly impressed by the quality of GParted. GParted allows you to non-destructively resize and manipulate hard drive partitions. Many Live CD’s contain GParted and allow you to resize various filesystems such as: FAT, NTFS, EXT2, EXT3, XFS, and more. In my [...]

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Most of the clusters of servers that I administer are diskless — they receive their boot images over the network using PXE. These are Linux clusters, and the diskless nodes all boot Linux images, however, a couple months ago I had need to boot a DOS disk image. This is very similar to a Linux [...]

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