The cdcat is graphical (QT based) multiplatform (Linux/Windows/MacOS) catalog program which scans the directories/drives you want and memoryze the filesystem (including the tags of mp3's) and store it in a small file.
Features:
- Searching with regex or wildcards in file names/comments/tags/etc...
- Read mp3 tags (if you enable it)
- Autoload database on startup
- Can mount/umount/eject the cd-drive on Linux
- Read file content from the specified files (e.g: *.nfo)
- Platform indepentent Gzipped XML format.
- Import/Export functions for CSV/XML-gtktalog/HTML
- Possibility to add comment for files or directories.
UBIFS is a new filesystem designed to work with flash devices, developed by Nokia with help of the University of Szeged. It's important to understand that UBIFS is very different to any traditional filesystem: UBIFS does not work with block based devices, but pure flash based devices
In this release, Ext4 is adding one of its most important planned features: Delayed allocation (also called "Allocate-on-flush"). It doesn't change the disk format in any way, but it improves the performance in a wide range of workloads.
Clonezilla, based on DRBL, Partition Image, ntfsclone, partclone, and udpcast, allows you to do bare metal backup and recovery.
it can clone many (40 plus!) computers simultaneously.
Filesystem supported: ext2, ext3, ext4, reiserfs, xfs, jfs of GNU/Linux, FAT, NTFS of MS Windows, and HFS+ of Mac OS. Therefore you can clone GNU/Linux, MS windows and Intel-based Mac OS, no matter it's 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x86-64) OS. For these file systems, only used blocks in partition are saved and restored. For unsupported file system, sector-to-sector copy is done by dd in Clonezilla.
If you feel that your Att U-verse or other ISP is painfully slow: manually change your DNS settings. Go to /etc/resolv.conf or make '/etc/resolv.conf.head' file, which will apply any changes to the top of the resolv.conf file. (a tail file is also possible).
"lftp to accelerate ftp / http download speed under Linux and UNIX
by Vivek Gite · 4 comments
lftp is a file transfer program that allows sophisticated ftp, http and other connections to other hosts. If site is specified then lftp will connect to that site otherwise a connection has to be established with the open command. This is an essential tool for all a Linux admin. I've already written about Linux ultra fast command line download accelerator such as Axel and prozilla. lftp is another tool for same job with more features. "
A stable, read/write NTFS driver for Linux, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenSolaris, QNX, Haiku, and other operating systems. It provides safe handling of the Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows 2000, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008 and Windows 7 NTFS file systems.
dd' was needed to interact with the block devices,
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You want to use dd so that you can specify things like bsize
tuning this to some multiple of 4k is going to be much faster than cat
dd has a number of useful extra features for more complex data copies
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If I remember correctly, dd is much more "low level" in is approach, skipping such fancy things as filesystems and all the bells and whistles :)
dd is problematic in the presence of disk errors, and can hang
or more importantly ignore non readable data
Fascinating discussion over at Stack Overflow.
Elucidates some of the subtle differences between dd and cat, and when and why you might want to use one over the other.
Really useful when running Windows and willing to access Linux ext3 partitions.
Ext3 partitions are seen as drives and associated to letter in the system , then in the file explorer, too.
wdfs is a WebDAV that makes it possible to mount a webdav share under Linux, FreeBsd and apple mac OS X. wdfs has some special features for accessing subversion repositories via webdav. it's based on fuse and neon. WebDAV is an easy way to upload files through the services of a webserver.