How to increase swap space in Linux
In this post, I show you how to extend your system’s RAM using a swap file.
linux
Everything I know about the Linux Operating System.
Ways to free up disk space on Ubuntu Linux Servers
This post lists a few useful commands for inspecting disk usage and reclaiming free space in Ubuntu systems.
Freeing up space used by docker containers.
When building or working with docker containers, you may get error messages like the one below relating to a lack of space: The error occurs because Docker objects accumulate over time and can eventually exhaust available storage. To resolve do the following: This will tell you how much space Docker objects are taking up in …
Installing nginx on Linux
In this post, I show you two ways of installing and configuring nginx on Linux.
SCP: Sending files between servers using SSH
SCP or Secure Copy is a useful program for sending files between two or more computers over a secure shell (SSH) connection. In this post, I’ll show you how to use SCP to send files from your local computer to a remote, copy files from a remote computer to your local or copy files between …
Tmux
A part of my job involves connecting to a couple of Amazon EC2 instances(Linux servers) regularly to run commands, build, debug and deploy code. All along I’ve been using tabs terminal tabs to keep track of each server connection and the processes running in it. Using the terminal emulator’s tabs feature works okay for simple …
Linux: How to increase video volume without re-encoding video
Pycon Africa 2020 took place on August 4 to 8 of 2020. I had the privilege of giving a talk at this conference. I knew that I wouldn’t be able to give my talk live, so I sent the organisers a recording of the talk that I had made a few days before. I hadn’t …
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Check number of lines by user in git
Learn how to count the number of commits or number of lines a contributor has added to a git repository.