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Linux tips every geek should know

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tricks, tips and techniques that turn long jobs into a moment's work

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You can now select to preload Konqueror instances. Effectively, this means that Konqueror is run on startup, but kept hidden until you try to use it

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#24: Unmount busy drives

  • Difficulty: Easy
  • Application: bash

You are probably all too familiar with the situation - you are trying to unmount a drive, but keep getting told by your system that it's busy. But what application is tying it up? A quick one-liner will tell you: 

lsof +D /mnt/windows

This will return the command and process ID of any tasks currently accessing the /mnt/windows directory. You can then locate them, or use the kill command to finish them off.

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To get more speed, you may want to enable dma mode, and certainly adjust I/O support

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Want to run a specific application whenever a particular device is added? The USB hotplug daemon can help you!

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dpkg --get-selections > debianlist.txt

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you would also need to copy over configuration files from /etc when copying your system to a new computer.

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To actually install the selections

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Slow down ping rates

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