Essential steps for creating a USB boot drive for Linux
I usually keep a bootable Linux USB drive with me because I never know when I will need to use one to rescue a crashed...
The Linux Philosophy for SysAdmins, Tenet 12 — Use separate filesystems for data
Author’s note: This article is excerpted in part from chapter 14 of my book, The Linux Philosophy for SysAdmins, with changes. There is a lot...
The dd command — the Disk Destroyer
Yes -- dd -- the disk destroyer. The command that strikes fear into the hearts of SysAdmins everywhere. It did for me, too, until I...