chown, or CHangeOWNer, is really, really easy to use. chgrp is even easier. There are only a small handful of switches, only two of which are commonly used, and only three arguments to the command. First, the switches: -R this sets recursion -v this sets verbosity As for the arguments, well, … Continue reading
A command which you will find yourself using an awful lot if you spend any time at all on a GNU/Linux based computer is the command, chmod. From the man page, this is a program that “changes file mode bits.” In case that was not descriptive enough, the longer version is that … Continue reading
There are many reasons why you might have to boot your computer manually from the GRUB command line. They range from the simple, “I installed a new kernel and deleted the old without updating grub,” to, “oh crap, something terrible happened and I need to get into my computer!” There are … Continue reading
Say for some reason you can’t access your computer. Perhaps you need to reinstall GRUB, or maybe you are running a minimal linux install (say LFS) and need to work in a different environment that supports your hardware until you can configure your linux kernel. Well, one of the options … Continue reading
There are lots of reasons you would want to setup an LVM system. LVM stands for Logical Volume Manager. The main difference over “standard” partitions is the LVM is not fixed, and like a RAID array, can span multiple physical devices (though it is not capable of parity, striping, or anything like … Continue reading