General
Distribution-agnostic terminal and system topics: pipes, awk, ssh, filesystems, disks, backups, recovery. Rooted in Linux and the BSDs, and crossing over to Windows and macOS wherever the subject does.
- guide/75 general Every standard command: the complete cross-platform terminal reference →
- guide/74 general Monitoring drive health with SMART (smartctl) →
- guide/73 general Rescue an unbootable system from a live USB →
- guide/72 general Encrypting a disk with LUKS →
- guide/71 general Your first bash script →
- guide/70 general Processes and system monitoring →
- guide/69 general Swap, swapfiles, and zram →
- guide/68 general Flatpak, Snap, and AppImage →
- guide/67 general Users, groups, and sudo →
- guide/65 general Recovering deleted files and directories on GNU/Linux →
- guide/64 general Filesystems explained: choosing, creating, mounting, and fixing them →
- guide/63 general Check and test an SD card (and spot the fakes) →
- guide/38 general Networking basics: ip, ss, resolv.conf →
- guide/37 general Disks: lsblk, fdisk, mkfs, fstab, UUIDs →
- guide/36 general Permissions, ownership, and the sticky bit →
- guide/35 general find, xargs, and the -print0 dance →
- guide/34 general Logs: journalctl, /var/log, and dmesg →
- guide/33 general rsync without losing data →
- guide/32 general tmux in twenty minutes →
- guide/31 general Cron and systemd timers →