Linux/Ubuntu

Mounting a windows share on linux

This command will mount a windows share on Ubuntu 10.10 (and obviously other versions):


sudo mount -t cifs //1.2.3.4/ShareName/ /media/share -o username=yourUserName,password=yourPassword,allow_other


"1.2.3.4"…

Ubuntu: VMWare Runs Slow on NTFS Partition

I found the ntfs-3g process was using 100% cpu. Apparently VMWARE can thrash the hard drive so the workaround is to set “mainMem.useNamedFile=FALSE” in the virtual machine's .vmx file and VMware will perform…

Ubuntu 9.06: Load used swap space back into RAM

When I have too many applications open or one of them eats all the memory I end up with a big chunk of my swap space used. The problem is that once I've closed a few programs or killed the offending program my computer…

Command to find the 10 largest files in linux

The following command will list the top 10 largest files in your linux file system. I've confirmed it works on OpenSUSE and Ubuntu 8.04. Remember to run this command as root if you want to search the entire file…