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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?

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Parallelize a Bash FOR Loop

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What NOT to put on an SSD?

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SmartMonTools: How can I know if there is any smartctl test running on my hard disk?

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What happens if the limit of 4 billion files was exceeded in an ext4 partition?

75 votes

How to chmod without /usr/bin/chmod?

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What does "rm is hashed" mean?

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Running a loop precisely once per second

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How to interpret badblocks output

59 votes

What's the philosophy behind delaying writing data to disk?

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Why does piping `tar` into `dd` not stop until the disk is full?

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Auto expand last partition to use all unallocated space, using parted in batch mode

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How do you remember command options?

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SSD: how often should I do fstrim?

37 votes

What is the difference between 'bs', 'count' and 'seek' in dd command?

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Why am I getting unevenly-spread results when using $RANDOM?

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Restore a LUKS partition that was overwritten by pvcreate

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Pre-encryption wipe, why?

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How can I force /dev/random to block?

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What is the purpose of patches of the linux kernel?

32 votes

How do I remove the first 300 million lines from a 700 GB txt file on a system with 1 TB disk space?

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Scripteable GPT partitions using parted

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Are the named pipe created by `mknod` and the FIFO created by `mkfifo` equivalent?

30 votes

How does touch -t work internally?

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ssh "-P" option, what's it used for?

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Trim with LVM and dm-crypt

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What does `cryptsetup resize` do if LUKS doesn't store partition size?

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How to delete a tilde (~) folder?

24 votes

Why using more threads makes it slower than using less threads

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How to send many commands to shell and wait for the command behind ends

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