As Linux administrators, we always need to look at the partition table of our hard drive. This helps us reorganize old drives by making room for more partitions, and also make room for new drives if needed. You can create a maximum of four primary partitions on a hard disk, but a number of logical …
If you’ve been using Linux for some time now, you must have heard the term packages and names like RPM packages or DEB packages. You might have also installed some of these packages on your system. Packages are just like software. In the way we have .exe files in Windows, in the Linux ecosystem we …
There are many ways as well as tools to check and list all running services in Linux. Most Linux administrators typically use ‘service service_name status’ or ‘/etc/init.d/service_name status’ for the System V (SysV) init system, and ‘systemctl status service_name’ for the systemd systems for a specific service. The above commands show whether the particular service …
In the computer networking world, an ACL is one of the most fundamental components of security. An Access Control Lists “ACL” is a function that watches incoming and outgoing traffic and compares it with a set of defined statements. In this article, we will go deep into the functionality of ACLs, and answer the following …
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VLC Media Player is probably one of the best media players out there for all platforms. It’s free and open-source with powerful codecs. You’re almost guaranteed to run all types of media files without any issue. It’s packed with all types of features you could ever need. In this article, we’ll be checking out how …
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Introduction Occasionally, it is necessary to format the USB drive (for example, when changing the file system or deleting data). However, many Linux users are afraid to start the formatting process, thinking it is either a very complicated or time-consuming task. In this tutorial, you will learn how to format the USB drive in Linux …
This article will list a few methods using which you can mount ISO image files in Linux. After mounting these ISO image files, you will be able to browse their contents and copy / extract data from the mount point to your local file system. Mount Command The mount command, as the name suggests, allows …
Network monitoring on Linux This post mentions some linux command line tools that can be used to monitor the network usage. These tools monitor the traffic flowing through network interfaces and measure the speed at which data is currently being transferred. Incoming and outgoing traffic is shown separately. Some of the commands, show the bandwidth …
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When it comes to handling zip files, Windows users have always had the advantage with WinRAR that automatically helps to extract and compressing zip files. On the other hand, in case of Linux operating systems, users have to either download other compatible tools or perform the operation through command terminal. What is a .RAR File …
In the Python programming language, to use code in a package, Python must be able to locate the package and load it into memory. The location information is stored as paths within Python. Whenever you request that Python import a package, Python looks at all the files in its list of paths to find it. …