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Browsing Posts published in April, 2010

If you ever got message “busy” message when you tried to unmount partition, you know that it can be quite tricky to find out why the umount failed.

I guess there are two ways how to get quick overview over users of the system. First one is to check  /etc/shadow file and second one is by using logins command.

Today, it is hint to display all installed disks on the system.  You can get this information by using format command.

The ndd command is powerful tool that can set many parameters related to network. We can start by determine network interfaces on our system. # ifconfig -a

Let’s say you have list similar to one below and you need to display just unique entries for forth column. In other words you need to see just lines with unique size of the file.