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08th August 2009
mksf.ext3 is a Linux command that allows you to create a Linux file system (ext3), generally in a hard disk partition. When executing the command, you need to specify the device name the file system should reside on. The command creates the file system wi... Read >
Author: brad jerry03rd August 2009
In a Linux system, files, blocks, directories, sockets and other items are referred by corresponding file descriptors. If your system is reporting errors that the file descriptor is bad, one of possible causes is that file system is corrupt and thus, you ... Read >
Author: brad jerry23rd July 2009
LILO (LInux LOader) is the standard boot loader used for Linux systems. When you start a LILO installed system, it undergoes two major stages to boot successfully: first stage (in boot sector) and second stage (in /boot/boot .b file). LILO finds all the r... Read >
Author: jonny defh16th July 2009
Linux based operating systems are increasing in popularity all the time. Commercial operating systems like Windows and OS X are constantly being bombarded by viruses and security breaches. There are few viruses that can touch a Linux system and they are o... Read >
Author: Graham Gallagher09th July 2009
SELinux (Security-Enhanced Linux) is the feature included in Linux that offers several security policies using LSM (Linux Security Modules) in Linux Kernel. In other words, it is the set of security modifications that you can apply to your Linux system. T... Read >
Author: jonny defh08th July 2009
You've definite it's time to find your web site, and have even watched a host server you guess you'll be ready with. Brimful with excitation, you sign up for your personal domain, and settle onwhich type packet you'll need.
As you look over your altern... Read >
Author: john coner06th July 2009
Linux Root directory is the initial point, from where the system starts looking for the files stored on the hard disk. Each file and folder that you store on your Linux-based system is marked under this root directory. It is denoted by ‘/’. The Linux ... Read >
Author: jonny defh01st July 2009
When you decide to get web hosting for your website, bear in mind that there are loads of different options out there that you can pick and choose from. You have to know what type of hosting you need and what operating system your host uses.
There are ... Read >
Author: Geoff Hadley18th June 2009
When you start a Linux system, BIOS first select the boot device and load the boot sector. Further, it looks to load the kernel image, after which the setup code runs to execute the Kernel. If your system is prompting that it can’t find the kernel image... Read >
Author: jonny defh18th June 2009
CRC (Cyclic Redundancy Check) is the standard check process that different files use to detect corruption inconsistencies, if any. Using this check, Linux systems ensure that kernel image hasn’t changed after it was built. If system finds any mismatch b... Read >
Author: brad jerry14th June 2009
When you boot your Linux system, GRUB (GRand Unified Bootloader) proceeds in few stages. Your system boots successfully if all these phases complete without any errors. But sometimes, you observe that Linux system halts and an error message is printed at ... Read >
Author: brad jerry12th June 2009
When you start your Linux system, during the boot process, you may receive errors related to file system corruption and the system may get stuck. You may encounter the following error messages:“Activating swap partitions: dup2: Bad file descriptor [FAIL... Read >
Author: brad jerry10th June 2009
At times, when you attempt to boot your Linux system, you encounter an error message. The reason behind a boot time error message depends on the issue, which can be a software or hardware problem. An error message generally appears because of superblock c... Read >
Author: jonny defh07th June 2009
LILO or LInux LOader is the standard boot loader used for Linux systems. Irrespective of the file system type, it can be placed in boot sector of partition or MBR. When you start the system and LILO loads, it performs a series of steps and displays the wo... Read >
Author: Robin Watson05th June 2009
The native partition type code used by a Linux hard drive is 0x83 irrespective of the file system (ext2, ext3, reiserfs etc.). When you partition your hard drive using fdisk or any other utility, it often consists of two partitions: a root directory parti... Read >
Author: Simpson29th May 2009
Linux supports file systems like Ext2, Ext3, ReiserFS etc. They follow hierarchical directory structure, where everything starts from a root directory that is represented by ‘/’. The root directory then expands into sub-directories. As compared to Ext... Read >
Author: Garry Thomson20th May 2009
In Linux and UNIX operating systems, daemon is the computer program that runs in the background other than direct control of a user. You can use these daemons to configure your hardware (like devfsd) and perform tasks like scheduled run of cron in your Li... Read >
Author: jonny defh20th May 2009
You've decided it's time to get your website, and have even found a host server you think you'll be happy with. Brimming with excitement, you sign up for your own domain, and decide on which hosting package you'll need.
As you look over your options, a... Read >
Author: Robert Bell04th May 2009
Superblock is the most significant component of a Linux volume that restrains critical information about files and folders in file systems as ext2, ext3 and more. It enables us to mount and access the file systems. Superblock corruption primarily occurs d... Read >
Author: jonny defh01st May 2009
Superblock is the most significant component of a Linux volume that restrains critical information about files and folders in file systems as ext2, ext3 and more. It enables us to mount and access the file systems. Superblock corruption primarily occurs d... Read >
Author: brad jerry17th April 2009
Almost everyone is familiar with Microsoft Windows, as it is installed on the computers of many home-based users. While it is certainly the most popular, Windows isn’t the only operating system available. There are several other choices, including Mac O... Read >
Author: Adam K Smith03rd March 2009
When you attempt to access any file, directory or volume from a Linux hard drive, you might receive any of the following error messages:“Inode entry of the file is deleted”“File not found”“File is inaccessible”These error messages take place ... Read >
Author: brad jerry23rd February 2009
When you try to shut down your Kubuntu Linux system, using KDE (K Desktop Environment), KDE seems to shut down your computer without any issue, but then your screen becomes black and your system freezes without showing any error messages and getting towar... Read >
Author: spears18th February 2009
Linux allows you to have one or more physical volumes on a single machine. Logical volumes can fit completely on physical volumes, even though you never unequivocally create them as adjacent. A logical volume could take part of all physical volumes. Somet... Read >
Author: brad jerry09th February 2009
You may experience critical data loss posers, when the following situations take place on your Ubuntu Linux system:Cut some GB worth of data from computer somewherePaste data to an external hard drive formatted using NTFS file systemLinux system gets cras... Read >
Author: brad jerry02nd February 2009
Most of the Linux users, from system administrators to general desktop users, have used the tool called boot loader. It is a utility that loads operating system into main memory during the boot process. Different variations of boot loader tool provide dif... Read >
Author: brad jerry17th January 2009
A good place to start for Windows is opensourcewindows which is a dot org site. This site doesn't list everything rather it lists the most popular.
So let's have a look at some of those.
One of the most popular is Open Office. Which is a big, full f... Read >
Author: KRISHAN GOPAL GARG14th January 2009
A good place to start for Windows is opensourcewindows which is a dot org site. This site doesn't list everything rather it lists the most popular.
So let's have a look at some of those.
One of the most popular is Open Office. Which is a big, full f... Read >
Author: KRISHAN GOPAL GARG08th January 2009
Although, Linux is a reliable and stable operating system, but sometimes it may crash unexpectedly. While booting a Linux system, you may get the below given error message:“ext2fs partition type 0x83. ....ext3-fs: journal inode is deleted....mount: erro... Read >
Author: jonny defh31st December 2008
Write Back Cache is a caching technique in which the modifications to the data in cache are not copied to cache source until completely essential. It is implemented on the hard drives to improve write performance. Devices rely on this method to fix slow p... Read >
Author: brad jerry02nd December 2008
With Bug 53102 in your Linux system, you may find a number of problems got attached to your system:The system won’t unmountSystem freezes sometimesFrequent Partition corruptionDisk is remounted as read-onlyThese problems generally occur with Ext3 file s... Read >
Author: brad jerry01st December 2008
what is fstab?This is the main configuration file which retains all the information about the partitions and storage devices of your Linux system, which also shows how you can initialize and integrate them. Thus this is the main file, used while mounting ... Read >
Author: jonny defh23rd October 2008
When you start any application on your Linux system, you may come across with the following error message:“Program name: error in loading shared libraries: lib xxx...so. X: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory.”After this error me... Read >
Author: spears15th October 2008
Sometimes when you try to install device drivers on your Linux system, you might fail to do it. It could be due to incompatibility of the operating system Kernel with your device driver or device. To work around this issue, you need to install the latest ... Read >
Author: Vishal Dwivedi06th October 2008
When you start your Linux system, at boot time, the process may get terminated and you might come across with the following error message:“Can't Locate Module ”After this error message, the system does not boot and none of your data can be accessed fr... Read >
Author: Vishal Dwivedi26th September 2008
A dual boot or multi boot is a system in which two operating systems are installed on a single hard drive, letting you boot from either of the operating system. The boot loader is a program which allows you to have dual booting. General combination of ope... Read >
Author: Vishal Dwivedi29th July 2008
You must have suffered from the data lost from your system while the Operating System is Linux. It is very tough to handle the data loss situation and here we need software which can able to recover those files and folder as it had been. Do not bother bec... Read >
Author: JuliaJolie08th May 2008
It is a matter of fact that there are several people who are anxious because they are unable to employ Linux hosting due to the reason that they run Windows on their PCs. It is a matter of fact that there is no relation between operating system on one’s... Read >
Author: Web Hosting Blog06th May 2008
Sometimes when you boot your Linux based computer, you may find that your system stucks in the boot window or it aborts the boot process. In these cases, you need to restart and the system but the same situation occurs again and again. CauseThis problem g... Read >
Author: Jerry Tim23rd January 2008
Outlook LAN Messenger is an instant messaging software designed for use within Small, Medium and Corporate Office's Local Area Network. This Intranet Messenger is an ideal replacement for internet messengers in companies, that creates private and secure m... Read >
Author: kannan moorthy01st June 2007
When you are a new Linux OS (operating system) user starting to get Linux training, you may become frustrated by Linux documentation that uses several different terms to refer to the same thing - or to a similar thing.
To help put an end this Linux fru... Read >
Author: Clyde Boom31st May 2007
When you start working with Linux OS (operating system) and learning how to user Linux, you will soon discover that there are several Linux terms that are similar, the same, or somehow related.
For example, the terms: root user, / (root directory) and ... Read >
Author: Clyde Boom30th May 2007
As part of your Linux training, you need to understand Linux terms to be able to understand Linux concepts. And learning Linux concepts helps you to learn how to use Linux!
There are several Linux terms that are the same or similar. And this "Linux Con... Read >
Author: Clyde Boom13th May 2007
Linux is a powerful and popular operating system (OS), like Windows - but better!
Think of there being two general types of computer software: operating system software and "other" software.
The "other" software consists of several types of software... Read >
Author: Clyde Boom06th May 2007
When you are a new Linux user and trying to get Linux training, you need to learn how to use Linux commands. What you most often need is a Linux example showing you how to use a Linux command.
And you will often hear seasoned Linux users say (over and ... Read >
Author: Clyde Boom04th May 2007
Learning how to use Linux commands is key to understanding how to administer a Linux system. When you are new to the Linux OS (operating system) and need help with your Linux training, you can use these Linux commands to get help with using Linux (in gene... Read >
Author: Clyde Boom27th April 2007
You can run Linux in Windows by running a free Linux virtual machine player program and opening a free Linux virtual machine!
This is fantastic for a new Linux user who needs to get Linux training and wants to learn Linux in Windows.
You just downl... Read >
Author: Clyde Boom27th April 2007
You can install Linux from CD or DVD onto a new computer system. This will allow you to learn how to use Linux to get real, practical Linux training and experience. In this article, we're talking about a new system that doesn't already have an operating s... Read >
Author: Clyde Boom23rd November 2006
Introduction:
Very often, malware is spoken of as viruses, trojans, dialers, adware and sypware. Being knowledgeable about how to diagnose a service running as a malware is an important part of fighting this nuisance. The probblem of Malware is getting... Read >
Author: Austin Akalanze23rd October 2005
Check List for Linux Security
Linux is an amazing operating system considering how it was originally created. It was a modest program written for one person as a hobby Linus Torvald of Finland. It has grown into a full-fledge 32-bit operating syst... Read >
Author: Jair Santos
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