11 Apr 2008
5 minutes read
atime, ctime and mtime in Unix filesystems
What are atime, ctime and mtime? As you know, Unix filesystems store a number of timestamps for each file. Why are they useful?
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09 Apr 2008
1 minutes read
How to List Directories in a Directory in Unix
Another quick answer to the question I see a lot in search queries on this blog: listing directories in a directory.
07 Apr 2008
2 minutes read
How to Find a Location of a Directory in Unix
Very quick tip for you today, I just see that many of visitors of this block are curious how they can find a directory …
02 Apr 2008
2 minutes read
How to Find the Default Block Size in Unix
The questions about default block sizes used in your Unix system are always popular. Today I’d like to show you a …
31 Mar 2008
3 minutes read
How to Install 32-Bit Debian Packages on 64-Bit System
Many software products, especially the commercial ones, are distributed as 32-bit packages. This means that they …
28 Mar 2008
2 minutes read
How to Find Your UID From Bash
I see this question a lot in search engines requests which point to this blog. And if you’re so interested how …
26 Mar 2008
2 minutes read
How to Find What Symlink Points To
To some this may seem like a trivial task, but I see great interest from Unix/Linux beginners arriving to this blog: how …
24 Mar 2008
4 minutes read
How to Find the Largest Files in Your Unix System
I see that my Finding Large Files and Directories post is quite popular, yet there are a few more ways to simplify your …
20 Mar 2008
1 minutes read
How to Find the Owner of a File in Unix
Surprisingly, I see quite a few questions around file ownership asked all the time. And one of the first questions asked …
18 Mar 2008
2 minutes read
Find Out Linux Version Using Linux Standard Base (LSB) Files
You probably know that modern Linux distributions have many things in common. Well, one of the reasons for this is LSB – …
How to decrypt files with Ansible Vault
ansible-vault decrypt restores an encrypted file …
Just discovered the macOS footprint command
I’ve administered Linux systems for around 25 …
How to Fix Ubuntu Packages Held Back
When trying to run do-release-upgrade on an Ubuntu …
How To Resize Filesystem with resize2fs
Quick note on filesystem resize on a typical …
macOS Tahoe
macOS Tahoe is the upcoming major release of macOS …
Centralized Bash history with timestamps
BASH is my Linux shell of choice (it’s zsh on …
Inspect filesystem operations with fs_usage in macOS
hey Unless you disable SIP, most of DTrace based …