Archiving
Archive and compress files to tar and xz
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tar -I pxz -cf NAME-OF-COMPRESSED-FILE.tar.xz SOURCEDIRECTORY/
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When using pigz for parallel gz compresion
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tar -c --use-compress-program=pigz -f NAME.tar.gz directory/
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Create tar.xz with more options
The -9 signifies compression level from 1 - 9, with 9 being highest compression. It is preferable to use 4-5 for best peformance to compression tradeoff. The -T is CPU cores. 0 uses all cores.
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tar -c -I 'xz -9 -T0' -f archivename.tar.xz filesAndor directories/
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General Disk Management
These can be useful when managing a remote server
View disk info on system
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sudo lsblk -o NAME,SIZE,FSTYPE,LABEL,UUID,MOUNTPOINT
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Manage disk with fdisk
Where {} is the identifier for the disk of interest
Get disk UUID and info
Where x is the disk identifier and n is the partition number
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sudo mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdxn
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Change partition label
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sudo e2label /dev/sdxn NAME
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The only youtube-dl command you need
Downloads the highest available quality video+audio
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youtube-dl -f bestvideo+bestaudio -o '%(title)s' [URL]
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Fun with directories
Replace all directory names with spaces with underscores
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for f in *\ *; do mv "$f" "${f// /_}"; done
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