As a network administrator, you probably know how costly routers can be. If you are configuring a complex network architecture, you might need Cisco or Netgear routers, as they embed…

In our previous tutorials, we have seen that implementing LVM volumes can be very beneficial in order to manage space on your host. The Logical Volume Management layer exposes an…

If you are working in a medium to large company, you are probably interacting on a daily basis with LDAP. Whether this is on a Windows domain controller, or on…

When working on a project, you are probably managing many different branches in your repository. As the number of branches grow, you may need to work on different tasks in…

From all the compression methods available, Zip is probably one of the most popular ones. Released in 1989 by Philip Katz, Zip is widely used by system administrators in order…

On Linux, it can be quite hard to manage storage and filesystems and it often needs a lot of different commands to move data. Traditional storage is usually made of…

If you are familiar with Git, you are probably creating a lot of commits everyday for your projects. If you followed our previous articles on writing Git commit messages, you…

Whether you are an experienced system administrator or just a regular user, you have probably already mounted drives on Linux. Drives can be local to your machine or they can…