I'm trying to find a command or program to show what files and folders are taking up the most space on the hard drive, much like tree size view on windows, is there and equivalent on linux?
When I open Nautilus v2.16.2 in CentOS 5.4 then I miss at the left side a tree view of the whole directory tree. Only a list of all files in the current directory is visible.
Basically, I am running diskwarrior on my mac now to try and fix invalid b-tree node size error. It is my boot drive and therefore cannot get onto the operating system. I have used live linux distros to try and get at the hdd that way, I have installed HFStools and testdisk and tried almost everything possible from within Linux itself to recover this HFS+ drive, but they were all a no go. My last resort was to try diskwarrior and it is rebuilding the drive now, well it has been for about 38 hours now but doesn't give any indication as to how long it will take.
I am pretty sure I am right in thinking data is never truly deleted until it is overwritten, is that right? Even if reformatted, would I be correct in thinking that if I were to format the drive and install linux on my machine, some of the data on the Drive would still be technically recoverable, even though the file system has changed? i.e. from HFS to EXT3. If this is technically possible what software would I need to try and recover files from a drive that has been formatted from HFS+ to EXT3?
It doesn't matter if I cant get it all, or might be more hassle than its worth, my girlfriend has another laptop to use for now and is in no hurry and I like getting to play around with Linux. The data is somewhat important but not enough so to go through the whole sending off the drive and paying hefty fees, it would be very nice to get back and I enjoy working in linux and learning more about software/hardware etc.
i installed kernel 2.6.34 to fix my lid closing issue, and that went great. but now when i go to reinstall my broadcom i get this error. Code: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done bcmwl-kernel-source is already the newest version. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded. 1 not fully installed or removed. After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used. Setting up bcmwl-kernel-source (5.60.48.36+bdcom-0ubuntu3) ... Removing old bcmwl-5.60.48.36+bdcom DKMS files...
In solaris we have ndd , tip and ptree command but I couldnt find any similar command in Linux. does anyone knows the equivalent for ndd ptree tip then please let me know.
Suppose I use the mv command to move certain subtree within the tree rooted at /. May I expect only a very small quantity of sectors will be involved in the process? Or, on the contrary, it is probable that a large amount of data will be transfered from sector to sector? Assume ext2.
If any of you is wondering why such a theoretical question, I am ready to translate it to practical terms: I have just created a directory called /home/john/mic2 which I expect to grow until reaching over a thousand nodes (nodes in the sense given to this word when studying lattices, trees and the like). But maybe later I will change its name to /home/john/mic1 for which, I think, mv is the usual tool in Linux.
mic2 is just a file. As such, there is a set of sectors associated with it. When I rename, these sectors will be left vacant and a new set of sectors will be written. Or maybe the same set shall be rewritten. And is that all? Remember mic2 is by now about a thousand nodes "large".
openSUSE 11.2 installed on machine with 5GB memory but System Information in KDE desktop shows only 3GB total memory. Just added a further 4GB but no change shown in System Information.
Is there something I must do to have sysinfo report true value and does this mean that memory not shown is not being used?
I am running Ubuntu 10.04LTS (64bit) and the drives are formatted as EXT3. I have a Raid5 that had 4 x 1TB drives. It is mounted as my /home. I added a 5th Drive and used the Disk Utility to Expand the array. In the Disk Utility it shows as 4.0TB RAID5 Array, however when I open a console and type df -h it still only shows at 2.8TB (Which is the size of the 3TB array I had previously.) What do I have to do to have the 4TB array show up properly? I'm obviously missing something, but I'm not sure what it is.
I'm connected to a Linux box through SSH on which I don't have administrative privileges. The command I wish to use is called tree, but it isn't installed. Is there any way I can load the tree program into my home directory and run it without the need to install it system wide?
I dont have under system->admin networking, but i do have netwroking tools (I have the latest version of ubuntu) and I am wondering - what command can i type in to the terminal to see the dns information? also can I install "network" for ubuntu?
Dmidecode is a tool for dumping a computer's DMI (some say SMBIOS ) table contents in a human-readable format. This table contains a description of the system's hardware components, as well as other useful pieces of information such as serial numbers and BIOS revision. Thanks to this table, you can retrieve this information without having to probe for the actual hardware. While this is a good point in terms of report speed and safeness, this also makes the presented information possibly unreliable. The DMI table doesn't only describe what the system is currently made of, it also can report the possible evolutions (such as the fastest supported CPU or the maximal amount of memory supported). SMBIOS stands for System Management BIOS , while DMI stands for Desktop Management Interface. Both standards are tightly related and developed by the DMTF (Desktop Management Task Force). code...
When I do System > Applications > Update System, it brings up a list of updates, and can tell me what each update is meant to fix (i.e. "fixes a bug in the flux capacitor so time travel works again (CVE-01234)"). How do I get similar info from the command line- I can't get it through yum, can I?
I'm sure this answer is out there but I cannot find it. I thought there was a command you could put in the terminal to find out what version of Fedora you are running and also tell which architecture (either 32 bit or 64 bit) it is. Does anyone know what that command is?
I am sure this has been covered before, however I do not know which terms to sue for searching for this, so I will try and explain it.
I have a program that I run at startup to connect me to my work VPN, specifically the Cisco VPN client. When running the program, it prompts me for my username and password. I would like to be able to automate the login process by piping the username and password into the program everytime it starts up (username and password cannot be passed as arguments to the program)
Something like echo username | echo password | vpn_script
Our simulations generate some big files, I want to save them under /scratch and then ln -s /scratch/$USER/XXX1234/filename to user's project work area. If user runs the ln command after rlogin or rsh to different machine, then he can't see the link from his local machine. How can I add machine information into the ln command, so user can always access the file no matter he rlogin which machine.
I am newer to Linux ( using Ubuntu 10.04) : I have noticed that during replacement of a file , no date and size of the new and old files are shown in the dialogue box so how to show that ( like the one in windows)
I know that it is easy question , but i really don't know how to do that , by the way I have checked folder preferences and system --> preferences but i did not find something for that
In a book, I read tha cmchk command is used to get the disk block size. But in Ubuntu, it is not allowed as command is not available.Can some body tell me what is its equivalent in Ubuntu.
Is there anyway to show package size that comes up in the search so you don't have to apt-get install package individually and wait for the installation initiation and then reject to install after it gives u the [y/N] confirmation thing?
I'm trying to write a program which would get information from a webpage and display the information on my desktop sort of like a widget. I kind of remember there being something like this already made, but for the life of me I can't remember what it's calledDoes anyone know?