Monday, October 17, 2016

Installing NCurses Disk Usage Tool and free disk space


Installing NCurses Disk Usage Tool
sudo apt-get install ncdu

NCurses Disk Usage Collection
ncdu /

Best to disconnect the unworthy Disks before Collection…
You can also specify another Target start Directory like for instance the “home” directory.


After Navigate/Drill into Directories to Find Trashes

    Move Up-Down by Arrow Key
    Drill Up-Down by Enter Key (To Drill Up select the Top “../” Choice)

Take Note of the Garbages Directories Locations




Instructions on Cleaning Up Space

    Be Sure that the Target is trully Garbage.
    Triple-Check your Command before Execution! (You’ll not be able to Revert the command.)

Deleting the Garbage

For Directories:
sudo rm -rf [/path/2]/myGarbageDir/

For Files:
sudo rm [/path/2]/myGarbageFile

Sunday, March 17, 2013

rebuild MBR wiped out by Windows

Easiest way is as follows , get a copy of system rescue cd 

  http://www.sysresccd.org/SystemRescueCd_Homepage

then boot from CD/DVD drive using system rescue CD , then you will get the option for BOOT AN EXISTING LINUX PARTITION ,choose it. after you have booted into linux go to package manager and search for grub or grub2 depending on your distro and then simply re-install it