To see the contents of a .deb Debian/Ubuntu package file, you can use the dpkg-deb command. Here’s how: Open a terminal on your Debian or Ubuntu system. Change to the directory containing the .deb package file. For example, if the package file is in the Downloads directory, run the following command: cd ~/Downloads Use the … Read more

To reload or re-read the partition table in Ubuntu Linux, you can use the following command: sudo partprobe This command will instruct the Linux kernel to re-read the partition table for all storage devices connected to the system. If you have just created a new partition on a disk, or resized an existing partition, running … Read more

To find out if your Linux system’s CPU supports Intel VT/AMD-V virtualization for KVM, you can use the following commands: Check if your CPU supports virtualization: egrep -c ‘(vmx|svm)’ /proc/cpuinfo If the output is greater than zero, it means that your CPU supports virtualization. Check if the virtualization extensions are enabled in the BIOS: Reboot … Read more

To create a Software RAID 1 array in CentOS or Redhat, you can follow the steps below: Identify the disks that you want to use for the RAID array. In this example, we will assume that the disks are named /dev/sda and /dev/sdb. Partition the disks using the fdisk utility. For each disk, create a … Read more

To write-protect a file on macOS (formerly OS X) from the command line, you can use the chflags command with the uchg flag. Here’s an example command to write-protect a file named “example.txt” in the current directory: sudo chflags uchg example.txt The sudo command is used to run the chflags command with administrative privileges, which … Read more

Here is how you can set up an NFS v4.0 file server on CentOS or Red Hat: Install the NFS server software: sudo yum install nfs-utils Create a directory that you want to share as the NFS file system: sudo mkdir /path/to/nfs/shared/directory Change the ownership and permissions of the directory: sudo chown nfsnobody:nfsnobody /path/to/nfs/shared/directory sudo … Read more

To redirect the console of a FreeBSD virtual machine running on KVM to a serial port, you can use the virsh tool. The steps are as follows: Create a serial port in your virtual machine configuration file: <serial type=’pty’> <target port=’0’/> </serial> Define the virtual machine with the updated configuration file: virsh define /path/to/your/vm.xml Start … Read more

To install KVM virtualization software on CentOS or Red Hat systems, you can follow these steps: Check if your system supports hardware virtualization by running the following command: grep -E –color ‘vmx|svm’ /proc/cpuinfo If the output shows the vmx or svm flags, your system supports hardware virtualization. Install the KVM and related packages by running … Read more

The error message “wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on fs2:/data3” typically indicates that the NFS share cannot be mounted because there is a problem with the file system type, mount options, or the superblock of the NFS share. Here are some possible solutions for this error: Check NFS server configuration: Make sure that … Read more

To allow normal users to take down a specific network interface, such as eth1:N but not the parent interface eth1, you can use the sudo command in combination with the ip command. Here are the steps to allow normal users to take down eth1:N but not eth1: Create a new group: Create a new group … Read more