Tell fs to free space from deleted files NOW
Is there a way to tell the kernel to give back the free disk space now? Like a write to something in /proc/ ? Using Ubuntu 11.10 with ext4.
Unix & Linux
How do services in Debian work, and how can I manage them?
In Windows I have the services manager, where I see all system services, that can be started through Windows itself, I set up the user it uses, the rights management is in there, and I can pass variables and some other information to the services, I can name them, and I can create duplicates services of one program and so on. So I have a main management tool in Windows.
Disable logging to syslog
I am experimenting with aircrack-ng and I managed to fill up / with the syslog file complaining about what I’m doing to the poor wifi card. How can I disable logging to syslog for the duration of my Bash session?. Of course I would like other, unrelated, processes to continue their logging as necessary.
How do I remove a directory and all its contents?
In bash all I know is that
Hide some commands from bash completion?
In bash, suppose I have these commands:
Why is process not part of expected process group?
I’m learning about the relationship between processes, process groups (and sessions) in Linux.
BC – no “\n” at the end + start with zeros?
This is a bc output, e.g.:
How can I configure zsh to let it explain to me where I can retrieve an executable instead of saying file not found?
In the default configuration of bash in ubuntu, when you type the
name of a software which is not installed, bash explains how to install it if
the executable if it exists, or how to install an executable with a really close name if it does not exist.
For example with emacs (which is not installed on my machine):
How to copy all files from a directory to a remote directory using scp?
My goal is copy only all files from ~/local_dir to [email protected] /var/www/html/target_dir using scp and do not create local_dir category in local_dir.
Delete files same name but different file extension
I have a mess in my photo libary. I have files like these: