fsck to the rescue…

Posted on by David Vassallo

While transferring files to my new hardisk on my SheevaPlug, I made a couple of mistakes which cut off a file in mid-transfer. This of course resulted in the file being corrupted: As you can see above, there's something obviously wrong with the file "SNWLback2.zip". Removing, moving or copying it made no difference, I just … Continue reading fsck to the rescue…

Symlinks in linux

Posted on by David Vassallo

The general concept of symlinks in linux is very similar to that of "shortcuts" in windows. After running the ln command, the source file is linked to the destination file. The "link" can be one of two types: - Hard link : this can only be applied to single files. Whatever you do to one … Continue reading Symlinks in linux