Linux, Windows, Security, Programming, Network Tutorials
Partition tables are used to structure the disk drives. MBR (Master Boot Record) and GPT (GUID Partition Table) are the two most popular partition schemes used today in IT environments. In this tutorial, we will compare the similarities and differences between these two partition schemes. What is MBR? MBR is an old and tired partition … Read more
Master Boot Record is the start of an partition schema in disk file systems. In daily usage we use single physical disk by splitting it multiple partitions for different use cases. Operating systems needs some structure in order to use disk drives without problem. Partition schema provides some structure where operating systems obeys this structure. … Read more
Clonezilla is a very popular disk cloning and backup solution. Clonezilla provides a lot of different types of cloning capabilities. We can clone our source into SSH, FTP, SMB, WebDAV, or local file systems. In this tutorial, we will look at how to download Clonezilla and clone given partition to the remote file system. Clonezilla … Read more
Disk performance is a very important factor for Desktops and Servers. Desktops and Servers use disks very busy way to write and read data. While buying disk we should prefer a faster disk according to our budget. There is a way to make a disk faster without paying any money. We can defrag disks in … Read more
diskpart is a Windows utility to create partitions on the disk. It is similar to the Linux fdisk utility. diskpart provides an interactive command shell where we will enter related commands to partition, format disk, and volumes. In order to run diskpart we need Administrator privileges. The best way to get Administrator privilege is opening MS-DOS as Administrator … Read more
Backup is important part of the Linux system administration. Without backups a system is not safe and also the system administrator position too 🙂 . There are different ways to take backup. Some tools provides user level backup operation like copying or sync files. Other backup tools provides more file system level backup operation. One … Read more
Kali is a Linux distribution or it is a security and penetration test distribution. It is beyond a Linux distribution and provides a lot of useful, popular and featureful tools to the security professionals. Some of popular tools Kali provides nmap metasploit burp sqlmap masscan nikto … Download Kali We should get Kali installation iso … Read more
Windows operating system provides command line tool named MS-DOS. This command line have different tools and capabilities for daily operations. We will look some simple steps about usage like navigation, list files and directories etc. We will mainly use dir command for this tutorial. Help Help information about dir command can be listed like below. $ dir … Read more
Linux is a stable operating system. There is a rare strong operating system foundation. But critical errors have occurs rarely too. Or they may be some hardware-related problems. If your Linux system got down where your database resides what will happen? If you have a backup is not so big problem. We can simply recover … Read more
Hi, creating and deleting partitions in Linux generally done in command line interface which makes some user confused. Here I will look it more detail but if you prefer GUI you can use gparted too Man In order to get more detailed help man page of fdisk can be used. $ man fdisk Help Simple … Read more