Tag Archives: linux

Search for Files Bigger Than Certain Size

When the disk partition is filling up quickly, it’s quite an hassle for the system administrator to find out the location of the files taking up the most space.

Access Root Shell in Ubuntu

On a typical Fedora installation, you are asked for a root password and you will given an option to create accounts for normal users.

On the other hand, Ubuntu only allows account creation for normal users, root logins are disabled by default.

Reset MySQL root Password

database

If you have set a root password for MySQL previously, but have forgotten what it was, you can reset the password without much hassle.