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How do I remove the first 300 million lines from a 700 GB txt file on a system with 1 TB disk space?
Sep 21 '20 at 10:43
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What NOT to put on an SSD?
Jun 27 '13 at 9:34
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Parallelize a Bash FOR Loop
Dec 5 '13 at 21:10
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What happens if the limit of 4 billion files was exceeded in an ext4 partition?
Jul 2 '19 at 7:38
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How to chmod without /usr/bin/chmod?
Jul 21 '13 at 20:42
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Running a loop precisely once per second
Aug 6 '18 at 15:20
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What does “rm is hashed” mean?
Dec 19 '13 at 12:25
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SmartMonTools: How can I know if there is any smartctl test running on my hard disk?
May 9 '15 at 11:06
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What's the philosophy behind delaying writing data to disk?
Aug 20 '15 at 13:43
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How to interpret badblocks output
Feb 19 '13 at 16:45
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Why does piping `tar` into `dd` not stop until the disk is full?
Oct 5 '18 at 14:36
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How do you remember command options?
Aug 3 '14 at 23:04
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Why am I getting unevenly-spread results when using $RANDOM?
Jul 4 '19 at 10:02
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Pre-encryption wipe, why?
Aug 20 '17 at 10:26
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SSD: how often should I do fstrim?
Jul 24 '15 at 7:19
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Auto expand last partition to use all unallocated space, using parted in batch mode
Jun 23 '17 at 20:43
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What is the purpose of patches of the linux kernel?
Jun 22 '14 at 12:03
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How do I remove the first 300 million lines from a 700 GB txt file on a system with 1 TB disk space?
Sep 21 '20 at 15:12
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What is the difference between 'bs', 'count' and 'seek' in dd command?
Jun 3 '14 at 19:10
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Are the named pipe created by `mknod` and the FIFO created by `mkfifo` equivalent?
Jul 28 '19 at 12:43
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How does touch -t work internally?
Jun 7 '13 at 23:42
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ssh “-P” option, what's it used for?
Aug 18 '18 at 15:50
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Scripteable GPT partitions using parted
May 5 '15 at 15:37
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Trim with LVM and dm-crypt
Aug 7 '13 at 21:04
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Why using more threads makes it slower than using less threads
Jun 23 '13 at 14:52
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How does `at` know there will be a time change?
Oct 27 '19 at 21:57
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Why does the command shuf file > file leave an empty file, but similar commands do not?
Jan 23 '14 at 0:07
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How to send many commands to shell and wait for the command behind ends
Feb 4 '13 at 13:53
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Why is drive/partition number still used?
Jul 27 '19 at 12:08
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Why does writing random data using dd result in disk partitions?
Jan 6 '19 at 16:12
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