cloud engineer
Here’s how to format a USB drive on Linux.
Plug in the USB drive to see mount point.
# scan for all drives df -Th Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sdc1 fuseblk 30G 66M 30G 1% /media/ulysses/451B99AF225B48EC |
Unmount USB drive.
umount /dev/sdc1 |
Choose a file system type and run the appropriate format command.
# nfts format mkfs.ntfs /dev/sdc1 # vfat format mkfs.vfat /dev/sdc1 # ext4 format mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdc1 |
Here’s a dd command to display sequential write throughput from the command line.
time dd if=/dev/zero of=/mounted_backup_volume/zero.raw bs=1M count=512 status=progress |
Output is.
512+0 records in 512+0 records out 536870912 bytes (537 MB) copied, 0.667813 s, 804 MB/s real 0m0.669s user 0m0.000s sys 0m0.359s |
If you’ve recently upgraded your Mac to Catalina or Mac OS 10.15.1, you may have noticed that Audacity is no longer working. To get it working, you’ll need to download version Audacity 2.3.3. However, installing and running it normally the way you’ve done it in the past will not be enough. Because of Catalina, Audacity is not able to gain permissions to the microphone inputs. The only way I was able to get it working is to launch Audacity from the Terminal.
Launch Audacity from the Terminal.
# cd to Application directory cd /Applications/Audacity.app/Contents/MacOS # Run it in the background bash Audacity.sh & |
Click Ok if prompted to use the microphone.
Vim is a text editor. Edit the ~.vimrc
# vim ~.vimrc
colo desert
syntax on |
Get the weather report right from your terminal.
curl wttr.in |
Here’s the output.
If you have trouble emptying the trash this morning, here’s a helpful tip.
Your OS is essentially telling you the file is in use, but the application is close.
Nothing like running rm -rf on the trash folder.
# Go the trash directory and delete all! cd ~/.Trash rm -rf * |
The file is gone!