How to Delete Weird File (Like the question mark files) I have two ways to delete WEIRD files For some reason I see alot of questionable files (literally thier names areRead More…
how to use debugfs to recover curropt ext2,ext3,ext4 volume (dump volume)
DEBUGSFS DUMP FULL CURROPT VOLUME TO DIRECTORY SCRIPT (READ ARTICLE BELOW FIRST) NOTE: first read article below First put in a USB /samba share / ntfs / iscsi and note its fullRead More…
Debian – Gnome – Create Desktop Shortcut
apt-get install gnome-panel gnome-desktop-item-edit /root/Desktop/ –create-new Thats for root, for other users ~/Desktop can be put instead of /root/Desktop apt-get install gnome-panel gnome-desktop-item-edit ~/Desktop/ –create-new
dd_rescue VS ddrescue (gddrescue BEST)
GOOD LINK: http://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/manual/ddrescue_manual.html Just so your not confused right off the bat, the better one is gddrescue (which has the command name: ddrescue and package name: gddrescue), and the older not as good one isddrescue (whichRead More…
dd progress & dd progress with pv
This article is all about getting a progress bar, or progress output (usually dd is silent). DD PROGRESS OUTPUT ################## To get dd progress, launch dd and then get its pid ddRead More…
WINDOWS / CYGWIN – kill a process
TO KILL A PROCESS – this is all from taskkill /? TASKKILL /IM notepad.exe TASKKILL /PID 1230 /PID 1241 /PID 1253 /T TASKKILL /F /IM cmd.exe /TRead More…
cut and awk – delimit text
RULE OF THUMB FOR AWK: awk runs once per line (unless BEGIN or END script in which it runs once in start or end of script, or if you use /grep-search-expression/ thenRead More…
MBR and GPT copy partition tables between drives
AKA: clone partition tables When to use: Sometimes a drive might lose its partition tables for unknown reasons. Sometimes you need to setup a partition table to be identical to a driveRead More…
Copy files with TAR, PV, NC & SSH
#################### TAR PV NC fileserver #################### Pre Requisites: At File Server Router: Portforwards port 50002 from router to 50002 on File Server At both locations: apt-get install netcat tar pv Read More…
LINUX – CLI Internet Connection Speed Tests
[last update 2014-11-14, before that 2013-7-29] speedtest-cli new install script as the git repo changed for it alittle, also a little cool script to test local server and a few other serversRead More…