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Colourful man pages in Ubuntu

Linux man pages are the most important resource for a Linux freak. By default man pages are formatted using the ‘less’ utility. ‘less’ shows the man pages in black & white, something like this : If you use ‘most’ utility … Continue reading

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How to force fsck (File System Check)

Ubuntu linux, by default performs an ‘fsck’ one every 30 times the file-system is mounted to make sure the hard disk has no errors. Sometimes you may need to perform an ‘fsck’ during next boot. Here’s the solution – Create … Continue reading

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