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How to corrupt a disk partition using dd I wanted to test corruption of a 41TB XFS filesystem and the dd command was the perfect tool for the job. I used a block size of 512 bytes and wrote 10 blocks of data from...
Remove white space from file names This is a one liner to remove white space in filenames using a linux console # rename 'y/ //' * You could also do this the other way, remove underscore with space # rename 'y/...
Fix low volume issue in Ubuntu 11.04 This post is a short howto to fix/workaround the problem with low volume in some Ubuntu 11.04 installations. The fix for me was to open a console window (as the user I’m...
Windows grep command alternative grep is a linux console command to print lines matching a line, but Windows does not have the grep command. In Windows you have to use the findstr command in a console window....