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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
#################### 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…
[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…
Surprising to me this isnt a program yet… Anyhow the credit goes all to: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9293?page=0,1 – Simon Sweetwater is the author of this script – good job if your reading this 🙂 #!/bin/ksh bytestohr()Read More…
MAKING BTRFS SHARE ON DEBIAN BOX WITH USER PERMISSIONS NOTE THE WINDOWS BOX IS JOINED TO THE DOMAIN BUT NOT THE LINUX BOX, THIS MAKES NO DIFFERENCE BESIDES THAT I CANT LOGRead More…
blktrace helps analyze io to a drive while you run any command/script. blkparse helps put that in human readable output. Seekwatcher helps visualize the IO in a movie or picture (look at 5th and 6th linksRead More…