June 2009

Question: How can I delete empty directory, directory with files and sub directories in Linux / Unix ? Also, how can I use an alias effectively for rm and rmdir command?   Answer: You can delete empty directory using rmdir command, or directory with content using rm command. Deletion can be done interactively, recursively, forcefully, [...]

Question: How do I find out the major and minor number of my block device / partition / mount points / SAN disk / filesystem? Why do you need to know major and minor device number? Sometimes you may need to know the major and minor number of devices for various reasons. For example, sar [...]

Creating users in Linux or Unix system is a routine task for system administrators. Sometimes you may create a single user with default configuration, or create a single user with custom configuration, or create several users at same time using some bulk user creation method. In this article, let us review how to create Linux [...]

ISO stands for International Organization for Standardization, which has defined the format for a disk image. In simple terms iso file is a disk image.   ISO files are typically used to distribute the operating system. Most of the linux operating system that you download will be on ISO format.   If you have downloaded [...]

Imagine the situation where you are working on a huge project and the project manager uses Windows and created a project document using Microsoft word 2007 document and send it to the whole team including you. You can call the project manager and ask him to convert it to txt or pdft and send it [...]

Question: How to Fix “Google Gears google.gears.factory.create failed” Error message that I received when browsing a website? Sometimes when you are browsing a website, you may get Google Gears error message as show below. Fig: google.gears.factory.create failed error message   Answer: It is possible that when you initially visited that particular website, you would’ve said [...]

As part of the contest that was conducted a while back, I got around 200 responses from the geeky readers who choose their favorite Linux distributions. Based on this data, the top spot in the best Linux distribution list goes to… Ubuntu My personal favorite was Ubuntu for desktop (#1 in this list) and Red [...]