This is a short post on how to install the necessary components to get X Server running on a bare bone RedHat 6 Enterprise Server (CentOS6) installation. The following commands should be run from a console window as the root user. Install barebone X support # yum groupinstall “X Window System” Install X and the [...]
Monthly Archives:: November 2011
How to corrupt a disk partition using dd
I wanted to test corruption of a 41TB XFS filesystem and the dd command was the perfect tool for the job. I used a block size of 512 bytes and wrote 10 blocks of data from device /dev/urandom to the partition /dev/sdb1. The “Seek” option specifies how many blocks are skipped, counting 100 blocks from [...]
Remove white space from file names
This is a one liner to remove white space in filenames using a linux console # rename ‘y/ /_/’ * You could also do this the other way, remove underscore with space # rename ‘y/_//’ *
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