screen your work…

The Linux screen command is a very useful tool for many reasons. For one you don’t need to worry about losing your session.  Sometimes long running jobs with little or no output can lead to your remote session terminating, not usually a helpful thing.  Other benefits of the screen command are session logging (thing documentation) […]

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6GB free = 100% disk usage?!

What to do when you have plenty of available disk space but the system is telling you the disk is full?!  I was working on a server migration, moving 94GB of user files from the old server to the new server.  Since we aren’t planning on seeing a lot of growth on the new server, […]

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Cleaning Up Memory Usage

I noticed my Ubuntu desktop was using a rather large portion of available memory.  I usually have a lot running on my system, multiple terminals, background jobs, etc so this is nothing unusual.  Today however I noticed my system was sluggish so I started digging.  Memory use was near 100%.  I closed all of my […]

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