This is a detailed example to learn the difference between hard links and soft links in Linux. Create two files: $ touch foo; touch bar Enter some Data into them: $ echo “Cat” > foo $ echo “Dog” > bar…
Hard links and symbolic links are very confusing for Linux beginners. Today we will look at the differences between these two links. Hard Links In Linux By default, every file has a single hard link that gives the file its…
In this tutorial, we will learn how to install GUI ( graphical user interface ) on Ubuntu server 20.04. We will install ubuntu-desktop in the following example. Four steps to install GUI on Ubuntu Server: What is Ubuntu? Ubuntu…
TCP connection status is a key metric to troubleshooting TCP related network issues. We collect four basic connection status to help you understand what these metrics mean. From these metrics, we can tell that the issue happens from server-side or…
File system is an important part of Linux world. We collect 10 useful file system concepts below to help you understand what file system is. Important File system Concepts
Raw IO and Direct IO are both bypassing file system cache. Here are more details about these two IOs. This can help us understand the difference and troubleshoot easier when we get a file system issue. Difference Between RAW IO…
This article is part of the following series. Disk utilization in iostat command is a key metric to check if a disk is busy or not in Linux. It is used to calculate the time percent that a disk…
Find command on Linux is a very powerful tool to search files or directories. We can use maxdepth/mindepth to limit down the search to specific depth levels. How to Use Depth In Find Command We can combine two options together…
Linux IOwait is a common Linux performance issue. Today we will look at what iowait means and what contributes to this problem. Hope this can give you more ideas about high IOwait issue. IOwait on Linux The iowait column on…
DNS is a very critical part of the Linux operation world. We will cover the most common DNS records today. All domains are required to have at least a few essential DNS records for a user to be able to…
