Umount stubborn devices
We’ve all been there: you want to umount a certain device and you’re being told the resource is still being used. Maybe you forgot to close the Nautilus window or maybe you are still accessing the device from[...]
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Check fragmentation levels on EXT3 files
During time, even Linux systems suffer from file fragmentation. To check the file fragmentation level of a certain file use filefrag -v filename [...]
Restore GRUB after installing Windows
Whenever you reinstall Windows with an existing Linux installation already present on the hard drive, the MBR gets an overwrite. You can restore GRUB to the previous settings by booting a Linux Live CD and following the [...]
Get rid of SWAP in Linux
If for whatever reason you wish not to use your Linux SWAP anymore, you can use the swapoff command. Do a swapon -s to see to which partition SWAP belongs to then a free -mt to check available memory. If you still want t[...]
