6 Great Apps to Analyze Your Disk Usage in Linux

You may own a one terabyte hard disk, but the screen still shows an “Your disk is full” error message whenever you want to install a new application. Does this sound familiar to you?

When I shop for hard disk, I tend to buy one that comes with a large storage space so that I can have ample space to store all my video and music files and to install (and test out) all sort of applications to my system. However, one thing that I found is that no matter how big my hard disk is, it will get depleted very fast. If you are just like me, then it’s time for you to analyze what you have been storing on your hard disk and get it removed to retrieve the storage space.

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Configuring Kmail mail client for Gmail
This howto will show you how to setup your Kmail client to work with Gmail.

Step 1:
From the menu above select Settings -> Configure Kmail

Notice: In order to preview the image better click on it.

Step 2:

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Installing Fedora 10 from USB stick

1. Download Fedora-10-i386-DVD.iso
2. Download Fedora-10-i386-netinst.iso
3. Create 2 ext3 partitions in USB stick (Hint: GParted is a wicked graphical tool to create partitions): A 200 MB bootable partition and another partition with the rest of space.
4. Copy Fedora-10-i386-netinst.iso to 1st partition: 

   livecd-iso-to-disk Fedora-10-i386-netinst.iso /dev/sdb1

5. Extract images/ folder from Fedora-9-i386-DVD.iso and copy to 2nd partition:  

   mount -t iso9660 Fedora-10-i386-DVD.iso mnt-dvd/ -o loop
mount /dev/sdb2 mnt-sdb2/
cp -rp mnt-dvd/images mnt-sdb2/
umount mnt-dvd/

   Note: If you do a 'cp -a' as recommended in the Installing from Hard Drive section, you’ll get an error like this, so just use 'cp -rp' instead: 

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Installing Fedora 9 from USB stick

1. Download Fedora-9-i386-DVD.iso
2. Download Fedora-9-i386-netinst.iso
3. Create 2 ext3 partitions in USB stick (Hint: GParted is a wicked graphical tool to create partitions): A 200 MB bootable partition and another partition with the rest of space.
4. Copy Fedora-9-i386-netinst.iso to 1st partition:

   livecd-iso-to-disk Fedora-9-i386-netinst.iso /dev/sdb1

5. Copy DVD iso image to 2nd partition:mount /dev/sdb2 mnt-sdb2/
cp Fedora-9-i386-DVD.iso mnt-sdb2/
umount mnt-sdb2/

6. Reboot with USB key inserted.
7. Select install from Hard Drive and select /dev/sdb2

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Hi Friends,
I am sharing you a very nice method for Fancy boot with Playmouth in Fedora.
Step 1:- Backup your Grub File
cp /boot/grub/grub.conf /boot/grub/grub.conf.bkp

Step 2:- Start Editing your Grub file using your favorite text editor.
default=0
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd0,2)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title Fedora (2.6.27.9-159.fc10.i686)
root (hd0,2)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27.9-159.fc10.i686 ro root=UUID=0af45fa6-7f43-415d-b78d-9c5d5799914f rhgb quiet vga=792 (Add this)
save & exit

If you would like to add some more themes then install following packages:-
yum install plymouth-plugin-{fade-in,pulser,spinfinity}

Now set your theme as default by executing following command:-
plymouth-set-default-plugin <pluginname>
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Enable root Login from GUI for Ubuntu 8.10

Hi Friends,I am sharing method to login as a root from GUI in Ubuntu 8.10.
Its not at all good to login as root from gui but if some one wants to know that how to login as a root from GUI then follow below instructions.

1.Login as a user from GUI.

2.Now Click on System -> Click on Administration -> Click on Users and Groups.

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Hi Friends,

Mr. Kalpesh Patel implement a nice trick to share internet with squid and block website using port redirection.

open your sysctl.conf

vim /etc/sysctl.conf and change line
net.ipv4.ip_forward = 1 (by default its 0)

save & exit from file 

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Hi Friends,

I am sharing method to configure Simple Subverion with Basic Authentication on Ubuntu.

To Install Subversion Open Terminal and Execute Following Commands :-
sudo apt-get install subversion libapache2-svn

Now Create Subversion repository in /svn (You can choose your own path)
sudo svnadmin create /svn

Give this permission to that /svn folder

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