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Keeping up with storage
Show folder sizes
$ du -h --max-depth=1 | sort -hr
Show disk space usage
$ df -h
Cleaning programs
$ sudo apt-get clean
$ sudo apt-get autoclean
$ sudo apt-get autoremove
Cloning entire disk drive (input file, output file)
$ sudo dd if=/dev/sda1 of=/dev/sda2
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New disk drive mount
Listing drives
$ sudo lsblk
$ sudo lsblk --output NAME,FSTYPE,LABEL,UUID,MODE
$ sudo fdisk -l
Mount it all the time
$ sudo nano /etc/fstab
mounting a FAT32 partition
/dev/sda2 /mnt/mypartition vfat umask=000,defaults 0 0
mounting a NTFS partition
/dev/sda2 /mnt/mypartition ntfs umask=000,defaults 0 0
mounting a HFS+ partition
# Make sure hfsprogs is installed
sudo apt-get install hfsprogs
# Mount or remount partition
sudo mount -t hfsplus -o force,rw /dev/sdXY /media/mntpoint
Make changes to take effect
$ sudo mount -a
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Shrinking a disk partition
You can do that using gparted.