My top five tools: 1. Midnight Commander (Console / ncurses based file manager with FTP, SAMBA and SFTP support) 2. Htop (Console based system / CPU / RAM monitor) 3. DD (Console disk / partition duplication tool -- I also use Clonezillia) 4. Webmin (web browser based system management interface) 5. Yakuake (KDE based drop down terminal) Other tools I prefer to use: Links / Lynx (console based web browser) Vi (console based text editor) NMap (console based port scanner / network management tool) TShark / Wireshark (network packet monitor) Gparted (disk / partition management tool) Rsync (console based file / directory transfer tool) Cron (time based command scheduler) Kleopatra (PGP / x509 / SSL certification management tool) Remmina (multi-protocol remote client / computer connection tool) Nagios (network / server monitoring interface)
Thx for the well rounded info. Disks, or any app with the S.M.A.R.T reporter is a must. I was reminded that ext. HDs aren't eternal when my 6 year old 1tb scarcely used Passport decided to quit. Apparently, after researching this, only 80% of ext. drives make it to 4 years. BTW, if you haven't tried Synapse, (app launcher) it's a great alternative to menu browsing. Cheers..
Both together is very nice when you have multiple headless servers. Of course, the REAL usefullness of TMUX is that it saves state (running processes)of an SSH instance even when you logout.
Really liked the tips on terminator. I had to go in and change the keybinding for grouping though. It wouldn't work because the Super key always opened the mint menu on my PeppermintOS system. Thanks
9:40 was a bit shocked when i heard you say the drive is at 102 degrees, but then i remembered that americans still use Fahrenheit for some damn reason...
Topias Salakka we haven't made the switch to metric because there's so much resistance from from pretty much everyone outside the scientific community. Very sad. Metric system is so much better.
The reason is at least doubly-determined. First, it On my way! From having been an British Colony. Second, we have a(n irrational) tendency to cling to traditions. That's most often because the status quo of the specific traditions in place overwhelmingly benefit those whose families have hoarded material wealth, over generations -- often with a fair many illegal practices that get "overlooked," as another example of upholding tradition. Upholding traditions also makes it much easier to maintain and reproduce a widespread belief in "the American Dream." As George Carlin famously and germanely about that said, they "Call it the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it" (Carlin, 2005).
Joe Collins On the contrary, Trains are very X-citing if you have been blessed with the Train gene as I and many of my friends have. I do not even know which of the two between Computers and Trains have obscured away with the vastness of my personal wealth. This is another reason to thank God for Linux; and thank you for the information you give as well as the quick reply. :- ))
I use Tmux great tool, but if you forget to turn it on, whatever you are working on is gone. or you have to save what you are working or start all over again. With Terminator while you working you open new pane along the way.
Thank you for sharing this video! I have been going through many of your Linux videos and I appreciate you sharing some the the system tools in your workflow. Keep up the great work!
I'll have to give Terminator a try. When I'm writing a script, I usually have two tabs open, one with Vim and the other a command prompt to test my commands before putting them in the script. Just my two cents. Great video as always.
Great video Joe as I too use some of the tools you use such as BleachBit, Disks and Gsync as those are great tools with just enough or needed settings and they do a great job although I do not use Htop because I am more of GUI user so I use MATE System Monitor as for the Terminator well I do not use the terminal at all therefore I do not need a more advance terminal but that terminal looks cool and handy indeed so Joe as usual great video and I look forward to more of your videos as always takecare :)
I'm hoping for Joe to one day cover Rsync as a tutorial video. also I wish Ableton Live 9 was on Linux... I miss it just as much as the Adobe suite, But I run that in a VM
Joe, After watching some of your videos I just started learning and using Linux on my Toshiba Laptop that is 7 years old. Yes, I’m a newbie! Originally the laptop had Windows 7, but after dual booting with USB and playing with UBUNTU I decide to format the whole hard drive, wipeout Windows 7, and go Dedicated UBUNTU Linux. My other Laptop runs Windows 10. Using my Dedicated Linux Laptop can I use the DISK program to install and dual boot from the BIOS or USB UBUNTU Linux Into Linux MINT? I’m not looking to run VM to trial MINT. If I want to VM MINT I’ll do that on my Windows 10 Laptop. Thank you in advance.
I would rather know what's going on... Updates can be tricky sometimes and it's nice to know what is being updated and when so you can fix problems if they arise.
If you rsync / and you exclude other filesystems so you just have the partition that / is mounted on so you have a nice copy of the system somewhere and you do a reinstall and have a clean virgin system, and then do an rsync back with the appropriate options can you save yourself alot hassle reinstalling from repositories and reconfiguring things? (Of course you can) Let us assume that the new install is the exact same version as the old version. /bin /sbin /etc will get replaced by the old /bin /sbin /etc assuming options are set appropriately. What are the most important things you keep in mind when doing this and what tends to complicate things when you do this? (apt-get caches, history)? (/proc)? (daemons and logs)? I've never actually tried this before, but like you, I've given up on backup software and use rsync exclusively , and am spending the time and effort to try and really understand how to use it appropriately in different situations. Sounds like I'm asking you for an advanced course on system backup! Just a couple of pointer and heads up would be appreciated.
MBR is not a file. It's a specific place on the front of the drive that's not part of the file system. That's why rsync can't copy it. You need a special tool to write to the MBR like Gparted or fdisk. :)
Nice video, Have you heard about an app called open snitch? I am switching from Mac to Debian and I’m not capable of installing it properly.... please give it a try and tell me if you can install it. Thank you
1. Terminator is awesome. 2. Htop is very helpful, a little more useful than Gnome System Monitor. 3. I use Disks to look at the S.M.A.R.T. Data, it fails when I try to Benchmark a USB Drive - very annoying. 4. Bleachbit is the Ccleaner of Linux but, 100x better! 5. Grsync IS DA BOMB! I use (sudo) grsync to backup my home folder with all my config files, I ran Grsync without sudo and it failed to backup some config files. -I backup to a 16GB Flash Drive and I keep it in a safe place, knowing that I feel better about my data being safe. funny thing is I have ALL this installed on my OS (Ubuntu 16.04.1)
I prefer Tilix to Terminator. It looks far more modern and has lots of desktop integration options, including "open terminal here" hotkey integration for gui file browsers.
Hey Joe... I heard you shot... lol joking. I opened the Disks utility and it says "Disk is ok, 5416 bad sectors". How do I fix this? I am running Linux Mint on a dual boot Acer Laptop & 500GB of disk space. Thanks for all the useful tips anyway.
Thanx a lot Joe. It was a crystal clear and usefull free of bullshit video. Even me as Dutch guy could understand it pretty good. Now i am gonna try out some of the tips..
Will use grsync now, instead of Lucky backup. I use grkel for real-time monitoring of cpu, disks, i-o, processes, weather, keyboard. gdmap is good for colored-graphical representation of hdd space usage. It works for my NTFS partitions too, including all of my Windows-10 operating systems. My Dell XPS-15 runs 3x W10, and upto about 12 Linux operating system. All are chosen by the Grub-customiser menu. I don't use the terminal at all, except to install grub-customiser.
Hey joe, you are an audio expert, can you do a video showing how to stream audio from linux in your local network, i know it is possible with pulseaudio i did it one time but i lost the script, it was really cool. And maybe sending it in a way so it can be read by android for example.
Actually, i don't have a clue how to do that. I'm an old school radio engineer who knows how to setup turntables and tape recorders. I know a bit about digital but not the streaming part. :)
Not really a good comparison. Timeshift is designed primarily to take snapshots of the operating system directories and it provides a quick restore function. It's really NOT designed to do persona data backups. There are better tools for that. I have written a script I use that does incremental snapshot backups of the entire /home directory, including everyone who has an accounts on the machine. github.com/EzeeLinux/bu-usb_backup_tool
@@EzeeLinux ok cool. Yeah I use timeshift for my Linux system, but I like this video about grsync and I like that it will ignore duplicates. I've been doing that manually. Thanks for the video!!!
and tadaaaa... you can open as many terminal windows as yow wish. what is the point to split the terminal in a window, except if there is some SPECIAL integration between them
Yes he seems to like them very much although I am more like your grandmother which means I need a GUI LOL but maybe one day I will start to use the terminal but the thing is with the terminal you need to know and then remember commands and I for one hate remembering commands or keyboard shortcuts for that matter so I do not see myself using the terminal any time soon but I will never say never because you never know :)
thanks for a comment, I presume that Your computer skills where poisoned by windows at a begining ;) once You learn how to use commands You will be amazed how things are easy, logical and fast to do in there, teach Yourself a 'man' command and TAB a lot, it's easier then clicking in pretty gui's, I wish You all best)
My top five tools:
1. Midnight Commander (Console / ncurses based file manager with FTP, SAMBA and SFTP support)
2. Htop (Console based system / CPU / RAM monitor)
3. DD (Console disk / partition duplication tool -- I also use Clonezillia)
4. Webmin (web browser based system management interface)
5. Yakuake (KDE based drop down terminal)
Other tools I prefer to use:
Links / Lynx (console based web browser)
Vi (console based text editor)
NMap (console based port scanner / network management tool)
TShark / Wireshark (network packet monitor)
Gparted (disk / partition management tool)
Rsync (console based file / directory transfer tool)
Cron (time based command scheduler)
Kleopatra (PGP / x509 / SSL certification management tool)
Remmina (multi-protocol remote client / computer connection tool)
Nagios (network / server monitoring interface)
hey Joe, another neat shortcut: CTRL+D will logout/exit of any terminal session without the need to write the command. works on all terminals AFAIK
9:14 I think it does work with partition, click the cog icon right below partitions view and I can see options for partition
Thx for the well rounded info. Disks, or any app with the S.M.A.R.T reporter is a must. I was reminded that ext. HDs aren't eternal when my 6 year old 1tb scarcely used Passport decided to quit. Apparently, after researching this, only 80% of ext. drives make it to 4 years. BTW, if you haven't tried Synapse, (app launcher) it's a great alternative to menu browsing. Cheers..
been using Terminator for a while but didn't know about locking consoles!
Where is the playlist for partitions ?
6:57 "killall firefox" does the same thing, but much faster.
What about tmux instead of terminator?
Tmux is pretty much all keyboard driven and the shortcuts are less intuitive then Terminator. It's cool but not for me. :)
Same for me.
I also use xfce4 terminal as a drop down terminal because is easier and I can bind a shortcut to it like ~ (I don't like guake and such)
Wrong channel, duh.
Both together is very nice when you have multiple headless servers. Of course, the REAL usefullness of TMUX is that it saves state (running processes)of an SSH instance even when you logout.
what about terminix instead of terminator?
Bleachbit as root is very good to delete the unused locales on the system. It can save 1 gb of memory and sometimes more.
I use Disks to get some partitions mounted automatically at booting so I can start using some apps that need access to those partitions right away.
Really liked the tips on terminator. I had to go in and change the keybinding for grouping though. It wouldn't work because the Super key always opened the mint menu on my PeppermintOS system. Thanks
I HOOPE ur paid well this is soooo informative ! Dang ! I.ll never skip ur ads !
9:40 was a bit shocked when i heard you say the drive is at 102 degrees, but then i remembered that americans still use Fahrenheit for some damn reason...
Topias Salakka we haven't made the switch to metric because there's so much resistance from from pretty much everyone outside the scientific community. Very sad. Metric system is so much better.
The reason is at least doubly-determined. First, it On my way! From having been an British Colony. Second, we have a(n irrational) tendency to cling to traditions. That's most often because the status quo of the specific traditions in place overwhelmingly benefit those whose families have hoarded material wealth, over generations -- often with a fair many illegal practices that get "overlooked," as another example of upholding tradition. Upholding traditions also makes it much easier to maintain and reproduce a widespread belief in "the American Dream." As George Carlin famously and germanely about that said, they "Call it the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it" (Carlin, 2005).
Smart is showing Read Error Rate of 113216625? Shouldn't this be 0?
Hey Joe; was that a Train folder I saw on your home folder? Please, by all means tell us more about it.
I like trains and I've collected a bunch of pictures... Nothing too exciting. :)
Joe Collins On the contrary, Trains are very X-citing if you have been blessed with the Train gene as I and many of my friends have. I do not even know which of the two between Computers and Trains have obscured away with the vastness of my personal wealth. This is another reason to thank God for Linux; and thank you for the information you give as well as the quick reply. :- ))
I use Tmux great tool, but if you forget to turn it on, whatever you are working on is gone. or you have to save what you are working or start all over again. With Terminator while you working you open new pane along the way.
You can split Qterminal like that as well
Thank you for sharing this video! I have been going through many of your Linux videos and I appreciate you sharing some the the system tools in your workflow. Keep up the great work!
Hey Joe in your opinion what is the best Linux distro for a netbook?
I'll have to give Terminator a try. When I'm writing a script, I usually have two tabs open, one with Vim and the other a command prompt to test my commands before putting them in the script. Just my two cents. Great video as always.
It works really great for stuff like that...
Great video Joe as I too use some of the tools you use such as BleachBit, Disks and Gsync as those are great tools with just enough or needed settings and they do a great job although I do not use Htop because I am more of GUI user so I use MATE System Monitor as for the Terminator well I do not use the terminal at all therefore I do not need a more advance terminal but that terminal looks cool and handy indeed so Joe as usual great video and I look forward to more of your videos as always takecare :)
I could be compiling multiple dependencies in one window :0 omg! That is borderline explicit 👾🖤
Thanks Joe. Great tutorials.
I'm hoping for Joe to one day cover Rsync as a tutorial video.
also
I wish Ableton Live 9 was on Linux... I miss it just as much as the Adobe suite, But I run that in a VM
Hey Joe I am glad you back in "Teacher Mode" great job.....
Joe,
After watching some of your videos I just started learning and using Linux on my Toshiba Laptop that is 7 years old. Yes, I’m a newbie!
Originally the laptop had Windows 7, but after dual booting with USB and playing with UBUNTU I decide to format the whole hard drive, wipeout Windows 7, and go Dedicated UBUNTU Linux. My other Laptop runs Windows 10.
Using my Dedicated Linux Laptop can I use the DISK program to install and dual boot from the BIOS or USB UBUNTU Linux Into Linux MINT? I’m not looking to run VM to trial MINT. If I want to VM MINT I’ll do that on my Windows 10 Laptop. Thank you in advance.
why don't you run the updaters in the background?
I would rather know what's going on... Updates can be tricky sometimes and it's nice to know what is being updated and when so you can fix problems if they arise.
Thanks, very informative Joe.
I was installing these on my linux tablet, as he spoke, lol. Good stuff. Thanks.
what's the package name for "disks"? not seeing it in the AUR
you need to look for "gnome-disk-utility"
Neil Mcsleeve thanks!
If you rsync / and you exclude other filesystems so you just have the partition that / is mounted on so you have a nice copy of the system somewhere and you do a reinstall and have a clean virgin system, and then do an rsync back with the appropriate options can you save yourself alot hassle reinstalling from repositories and reconfiguring things? (Of course you can)
Let us assume that the new install is the exact same version as the old version.
/bin /sbin /etc will get replaced by the old /bin /sbin /etc assuming options are set appropriately.
What are the most important things you keep in mind when doing this and what tends to complicate things when you do this?
(apt-get caches, history)? (/proc)? (daemons and logs)?
I've never actually tried this before, but like you, I've given up on backup software and use rsync exclusively , and am spending the time and effort to try and really understand how to use it appropriately in different situations.
Sounds like I'm asking you for an advanced course on system backup! Just a couple of pointer and heads up would be appreciated.
rsync will not create a bootable partition. You would use a tool like Clonezilla to create an image of your OS and then put it on a new drive.
if grsync can restore USER DATA, can it restore MBR FILES but can not be read as a MBR file, just a normal file?
confusing question, I know....
MBR is not a file. It's a specific place on the front of the drive that's not part of the file system. That's why rsync can't copy it. You need a special tool to write to the MBR like Gparted or fdisk. :)
Joe Collins
I meant to say our fstab file!
since I have been running Linux, I have had no file system/boot issues, so I forgot.
Nice video, Have you heard about an app called open snitch? I am switching from Mac to Debian and I’m not capable of installing it properly.... please give it a try and tell me if you can install it. Thank you
Thanks very much for this - very interesting.
i gather bleachbit has some issues with SSD. is this true? any way to avoid it?
What theme is this pls. Thanks
Can you do a tutorial on how to set up linux to play midi files? Same goes with wine.
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Once you use Terminator you probaby will be hooked. I can't imagine a better terminal.
ST
Thanks for the video
that terminator is a good program atleast for system admins.
What about tiling wm like i3wm xD you can tile everything eg. some pdf+few terminals+ a web browser etc. previously i used tmux
Could you tell me why my hdd shows the partitioning as "GUID Partition Table" and yours says Master Boot Record. Thanks for the videos
UEFI. Look it up. :)
1. Terminator is awesome.
2. Htop is very helpful, a little more useful than Gnome System Monitor.
3. I use Disks to look at the S.M.A.R.T. Data, it fails when I try to Benchmark a USB Drive - very annoying.
4. Bleachbit is the Ccleaner of Linux but, 100x better!
5. Grsync IS DA BOMB! I use (sudo) grsync to backup my home folder with all my config files, I ran Grsync without sudo and it failed to backup some config files.
-I backup to a 16GB Flash Drive and I keep it in a safe place, knowing that I feel better
about my data being safe.
funny thing is I have ALL this installed on my OS (Ubuntu 16.04.1)
I will try it on Ye Olde Acer nettop, lol. HOpefully it gets useful again. I mean, Atom processor and all, lol.
I prefer Tilix to Terminator. It looks far more modern and has lots of desktop integration options, including "open terminal here" hotkey integration for gui file browsers.
I prefer termite+tmux on i3 on my Arch install.
Hey Joe... I heard you shot... lol joking. I opened the Disks utility and it says "Disk is ok, 5416 bad sectors". How do I fix this? I am running Linux Mint on a dual boot Acer Laptop & 500GB of disk space. Thanks for all the useful tips anyway.
Thanx a lot Joe. It was a crystal clear and usefull free of bullshit video. Even me as Dutch guy could understand it pretty good.
Now i am gonna try out some of the tips..
Will use grsync now, instead of Lucky backup.
I use grkel for real-time monitoring of cpu, disks, i-o, processes, weather, keyboard.
gdmap is good for colored-graphical representation of hdd space usage. It works for my NTFS partitions too, including all of my Windows-10 operating systems. My Dell XPS-15
runs 3x W10, and upto about 12 Linux operating system. All are chosen by the Grub-customiser menu. I don't use the terminal at all, except to install grub-customiser.
Hey joe, you are an audio expert, can you do a video showing how to stream audio from linux in your local network, i know it is possible with pulseaudio i did it one time but i lost the script, it was really cool. And maybe sending it in a way so it can be read by android for example.
Actually, i don't have a clue how to do that. I'm an old school radio engineer who knows how to setup turntables and tape recorders. I know a bit about digital but not the streaming part. :)
What's a "Windows" machine? Is that a new distro that's been announced?
Ha, joke's on you. Now there is a real windows with linux kernel.
Excellent !!
Hi, can you tell how to setup hourly and daily snapshots, like on real Unix servers?
Try "Timeshift"..
Grsync vs timeshift?
Not really a good comparison. Timeshift is designed primarily to take snapshots of the operating system directories and it provides a quick restore function. It's really NOT designed to do persona data backups. There are better tools for that. I have written a script I use that does incremental snapshot backups of the entire /home directory, including everyone who has an accounts on the machine. github.com/EzeeLinux/bu-usb_backup_tool
@@EzeeLinux ok cool. Yeah I use timeshift for my Linux system, but I like this video about grsync and I like that it will ignore duplicates. I've been doing that manually. Thanks for the video!!!
Nice!
I tried terminator once and it was very buggy so I switched to tmux, I'm still using tmux now and it's very bugs free
The most usefull tube so far.
I LOOOOOOOVE YOU !! Thank you so muuuuuuucchhhh!!!!!!!!
and tadaaaa... you can open as many terminal windows as yow wish. what is the point to split the terminal in a window, except if there is some SPECIAL integration between them
I stopped using terminator after a few tries, because its red session bar feels like an error alert...
it takes like 5 seconds to change that...
We heard you like terminals, so..
Yes he seems to like them very much although I am more like your grandmother which means I need a GUI LOL but maybe one day I will start to use the terminal but the thing is with the terminal you need to know and then remember commands and I for one hate remembering commands or keyboard shortcuts for that matter so I do not see myself using the terminal any time soon but I will never say never because you never know :)
Hahaha.... my mom says my Linux Terminals' looks like MS-DOS!
thanks for a comment, I presume that Your computer skills where poisoned by windows at a begining ;) once You learn how to use commands You will be amazed how things are easy, logical and fast to do in there, teach Yourself a 'man' command and TAB a lot, it's easier then clicking in pretty gui's, I wish You all best)
The best AD for bleachbit is that ,Hillary Clinton use for her servers :D
Mine: screen aptitude vim rsnapshot du find grep sed make
Aliens 👽 use Linux, because they are Intelligent 🤓
thanks man
You welcome (cliking on video)
Uses bleachbit, "i got this" clears bash history, needs command 😰😱, has to grab notebook 😐😑... "I don't got this."