admin on June 21st, 2010

fsck is used to check and optionally repair one or more Linux file systems. File system can be a device name (e.g. /dev/sda2), a mount point (e.g. /, /usr,… ), or an ext2 label or UUID specifier. By default, the fsck will try to handle filesystems on different physical disk drives in parallel to reduce [...]

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admin on March 16th, 2010

If the Linux server time and date is wrong and you need to set it to new values from the shell prompt, you should use date command. You must login as root user to use date command. Also from command prompt you can check and set system clock (hwclock command). Use the following syntax to [...]

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admin on February 26th, 2010

If you want to test server performance, you can think about SysBench. SysBench is a modular, cross-platform and multi-threaded benchmark tool for evaluating OS parameters that are important for a system running a database under intensive load. The idea of this benchmark suite is to quickly get an impression about system performance without setting up [...]

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