Click for a PDF containing this and four other essential Linux articles. Both of the aliases below will list whatever files are open on your behalf when you are logged in. I suspect that few sysadmins ...

Happy hangover Monday everyone! To soothe those post-big-game blues, here's this week's man page -- lsof, the LiSt Open Files tool. If you're trying to figure out why a removable drive won't unmount ...

This kind of problem can occur because processes can create and hold an open file descriptor, preventing the file’s inode from being relinquished and the associated disk space freed up. If you can’t ...