Linux and Unix tutorials for new and seasoned sysadmin
I‘m a new Unix user and trying to find the hidden directory called .movies but I do not know where it is on the file system. How do I find a hidden folder or directories under Unix like operating systems?
How do I mount the filesystem (disk partition) using the filesystem label on the ext3/ext4 file system located on USB disk or hard disk under Linux operating systems?
I‘ve CentOS Linux and FreeBSD based server running using 3Ware (9650SE-2LP) RAID card. I know how to check hard disk behind Adaptec raid controllers, but how do I look at ATA / SATA disks behind 3ware SCSI RAID controllers using smartctl command?
Something is wrong with my RHEL networking configuration so I booted using my ISPs remote rescue kernel mode to fix my system. How do I mount and chroot into actual installation to fix the problem? How do I boot from any Live Linux CD and chroot into /dev/sda1 or /dev/md0 to fix the problem or recover the data?
I‘m going to upgrade my FreeBSD 7.x server hard disks and going to send back the original 73GB hard disk to my vendor. I wanted to make sure that no one should able to use my personal data from old hard disk, especially files stored in /home/you/projects directory. I know how to use sDelete under MS-Windows to delete a file permanently. How do I permanently erase files under FreeBSD operating systems?
How do I find out serial number information for my hard disk under Ubuntu Linux Gnome desktop environment?
