Disk management

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List all disks and partitions

  • Last tested on Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS (trusty)
$ sudo lsblk -o NAME,FSTYPE,SIZE,MOUNTPOINT,LABEL
NAME FSTYPE SIZE MOUNTPOINT LABEL
sda1 ext3    38G /
sda2 swap     2G [SWAP]

Mirror a folder

  • Last tested on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (xenial)

This also works between servers. The first one is on the same server. 

$ rsync -azv /folder_a/ /folder_b/

This one is between different servers. 

$ rsync -azv ~/folder_a/ mhan@tom.myserver.com:~/folder_b/
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