Category: Command Line

Mount Windows Partion

 January 28, 2008

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

Modify timestamp in Linux

 January 27, 2008

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

Command to mount a Samba Share in Linux

 January 26, 2008

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

Cancel Planned Shutdown

 January 25, 2008

Cancel a planned shutdown of the system shutdown -c

Check for Bad Blocks in HDD

 January 24, 2008

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

Scheduled Shutdown In Linux

 January 23, 2008

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

Linux Command to Erase Rewritable CD

 January 21, 2008

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

Force an Unmount

 January 19, 2008

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

Show USB devices

 January 18, 2008

Linux command to show all USB Devices lsusb -tv

Create a Sound File from a Text

 January 17, 2008

You can create a wav file of a written text using this command echo “It’s such a beautiful day! Why…