One of the most common programs on Linux systems for packaging files is the venerable tar. tar is short for tape archive, and originally, it would archive your files to a tape device. Now, you're more ...

Sure, using the Linux command line is optional. But these are commands I depend on every day. See what you think.

There are a number of tools that you use to compress files on Linux systems, but they don't all behave the same way or yield the same level of compression. In this post, we compare five of them. There ...

The Disks app takes over some more challenging commands, such as fsck, mount, parted, chown, and dd. This app is a handy GUI that also prevents you from having to edit the fstab configuration file ...

While it may seem antiquated in this day and age of modern operating systems, the command line remains the most flexible and powerful way to perform tasks in Linux. The full guide to the Linux command ...

sudo tar -czf "backup.tar.gz" --absolute-names --warning='no-file-removed' --warning='no-file-changed' --warning='no-file-ignored' --exclude="/REDACTED/backup.tar.gz ...