It's a rare occasion that my Linux desktop slows down. That's not to say it never happens, as that would be a lie. Most often, when a system slowdown occurs, I can usually trace it back to a specific ...

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Any Linux systems administrator needs to be proficient with a wide range of commands for user management, file handling, system monitoring, networking, security and more. This article covers a range ...

If you run it against the / root directory, you’ll wipe every last bit of data on your entire drive. Although used as a punchline for jokes about system administrator mistakes, people still do this in ...

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Korbin is a Linux system administrator who spends most of his time in a terminal figuring out how things actually work. Over ...

Linux provides a useful array of commands for managing file permissions, getting information on commands, displaying running processes and displaying details on the system itself. The uname command ...

Linux's oldest commands still work, but these three modern alternatives make finding files, searching, and navigating much easier.

Server storage management persists as a common Linux admin issue, as users rarely delete files and applications seem to generate increasingly larger documents. That's where Bash commands come in. Go ...

Has a single concern ever been as much of a hassle for sys admins as storage space? It seems there's always resources and attention being dedicated to managing storage capacity, whether it's exploding ...