Month: January 2008

Show Space Usage of a Directory

Estimate space used by directory. du -sh dir

Command to io to Previous Folder

Go back to the previous folder cd –

Mount Windows Partion

Mount a Windows FAT partition. If it is an NTFS partion, use ‘ntfs’ instead of ‘fat’. Make sure that the…

Modify timestamp in Linux

Modify timestamp of a file or directory touch -t 0712250000 file #(YYMMDDhhmm)

Command to mount a Samba Share in Linux

Mount a windows network share in Linux using Samba mount -t smbfs -o username=user,password=pass //WinClient/share /mnt/share

Cancel Planned Shutdown

Cancel a planned shutdown of the system shutdown -c

Check for Bad Blocks in HDD

Linux Command to search the Harddisk for bad sectors sudo badblocks -v /dev/sda

Scheduled Shutdown In Linux

Shutdown the system after a specified time. shutdown -h hours:minutes &

Linux Command to Erase Rewritable CD

Erase a Rewritable Disk cdrecord -v gracetime=2 dev=/dev/cdrom -eject blank=fast -force

Force an Unmount

Force umount when the device is busy fuser -km /mnt/hda2