Swap space is a dedicated storage space in the disk either in the form of partition or a file. Swap space comes into the picture when Linux kernel wants to allocate more memory to processes by moving infrequently used processes or tasks into the swap … Read more
Scenario:1 On one of my Production SuSE Linux (VMware Virtual Server ) , Storage team has extended partition (RDM disk ) from their end. Now how to rescan that partition and extend without rebooting from the Linux ? Solution : In My case 8th disk … Read more
Mediawiki is an open-source wiki software that allows you to create online wikis quickly. It was mainly developed for use in Wikipedia and is currently being used in various Wikimedia websites like Wikidata, Wiktionary and Wikimedia Commons etc. A wiki can be defined as Content … Read more
Adobe Flash player is important plugin that allows our web browsers to play multimedia contents like audio & videos streaming, flash based games and other rich media stuff. Adobe Flash player is supported by different web browsers like IE ( Internet Explorer), Chrome, Firefox, Safari … Read more
Good news for Ubuntu Linux lovers that the latest version of Ubuntu 15.04 code name “Vivid Vervet” has been released on 23rd April 2015. In this post we will discuss how to install Ubuntu 15.04 on Laptop and desktop with Screenshots. Some of the changes … Read more
OpenCart is a Open source e-commerce software that allows us to build or create our own online store free of cost. Opencart is also known as shopping cart which is based on PHP. In this post we will discuss the installation steps of OpenCart on … Read more
In this post, we will show you how to create and extend xfs file system based on LVM. XFS is a file system which is designed for high performance ,scalability and capacity point of view. It is generally used where large amount data to be … Read more
As a Linux system admin we generally face low disk space issues. By implementing the user and group disk quota on the file system we can resolve the space issue. Quota restricts the users to use only allowed disk and inodes on the particular file … Read more
Joomla is an Open Source Content Management System (CMS) , which allow the users to create or build their own website and applications. Joomla is very popular because of its ease-of-use and extensibility. Joomla in the backend uses the PHP, Web server (Apache2) and database … Read more
Carrying out a speed test is usually a convenient way of checking or monitoring the speed of your internet connection. In most cases, you would visit a popular site such as Ookla Speed Test which provides an elegant UI that gives you a clear picture … Read more
As a Linux system admin we love to download and upload larger files using bit torrent clients from command line or from terminal. This can be possible with the help of rTorrent, it is command line Bit Torrent client available on Linux like operating System. … Read more
Apache Subversion is also known as SVN, it is an open-source versioning and revision controlling program which helps in storing the present and past historic file versions like documents, source codes and web pages. SVN comes under Apache License. In this tutorial, we will learn … Read more