Disk management in Linux

Tuesday, April 20th, 2010

If you need to manage your disk or just check the disk space usage of a Linux powered computer, here are some suggestions for both graphical and command line interfaces. Desktop applications for disk management: File mangers: in a modern Linux desktop environment checking disk usage is a trivial task. The file ...

Understanding file permissions and ownership on Linux

Wednesday, December 12th, 2007

The files on a Linux system can have reading permissions, writing permissions, executing (running) permissions or no permissions for the user that owns that files, groups of users or the rest - users who does not own that files and they are not members of any group. The usual file types ...