All Linux distributions include a program that gives us the possibility of making reliable copies of the entire disk or partition, as well as restoring it. This is the “dd” command. Copying disk A to disk B: dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=64K conv=noerror,sync In this example, we are copying the entire “/dev/sda” disk to the “/dev/sdb”
Let’s see in the example below how to increase an LVM partition, which is inside an Extended partition. In the example below, we will recreate the LVM partition, which must start from the same old sector, i.e. in our example the starting sector of our LVM is 501760, so the new resized partition must also
Recently, when I started using Debian Stretch, I came across the problem of copying and placing in the Terminal, which wasn’t working. Solving the Copy and Paste problem in Debian 9 Stretch Open the file“/usr/share/vim/vim80/defaults.vim” in an editor: vim /usr/share/vim/vim80/defaults.vim Search the file for the following lines: if has(‘mouse’) set mouse=a endif Comment out the
NFS is a file system that can be shared by several hosts. In this tutorial, we’ll explain how to install and configure an NFS server on Debian 8 Jessie. Installing and configuring an NFS server First, we use the command below to install the NFS server: apt-get install nfs-kernel-server Our folder to be shared will
