Linux Tips and Tricks

Helpful tips and tricks for configuring, using and optimizing Linux.

Make a Bootable USB Kaspersky Rescue Disk

Kaspersky USB Rescue Disk Maker

Creating a bootable USB for Kaspersky Rescue Disk is an essential step for anyone looking to disinfect computers affected by severe malware infections. Kaspersky Rescue Disk (KRD) is a free standalone antivirus tool developed to scan and clean systems outside of the regular operating system environment. In this guide, we’ll show you how to use YUMI to create a bootable USB drive from the Kaspersky Rescue Disk ISO file and effectively disinfect your system. This approach is particularly useful if malware has made it difficult to run regular antivirus software on your OS.

Find Large Files in Linux

List Files by Size Linux

Want to find large files in Linux? Running out of disk space and need to perform a disk cleanup? It is always a good idea to keep tabs on your overall file space usage and be aware of which files and directories are taking up the most space on your Linux system. Especially after you've installed a lot of software and your disk space begins to fill up. Once you know what the largest files are, you can perform a disk cleanup to remove any unnecessary files in order to make space for new programs and files.

How to Install Raspberry Pi to USB

Win32 Disk Imager

How to Install Raspberry Pi to USB Manually from Windows: A Debian based desktop ISO does exist that enables a user to install and run Raspberry Pi from a USB flash drive on a desktop PC. In the following simple solution, I cover one way to image the ISO to your flash drive, and then boot the operating system from USB.

Restore GRUB2 after Windows Install

sudo update grub

How I Restored GRUB2 after a Windows Install. GRUB2 (Grand Unified Bootloader)  is a universal bootloader used by Ubuntu and other Linux Distributions. If you have a Linux Distribution installed on a partition, and attempt to install Windows alongside it, your GRUB bootloader will be overwritten by the Windows bootloader, and your computer will only boot into Windows.

FIXED: No Devices Matches MBR Identifier

Set MBRID

If you are getting boot errors stating "No Devices Match MBR Identifier" while trying to boot OpenSUSE from a custom flash drive, it is likely that the Disk Identifier (or Disk ID) found in the MBR file, is incorrect. In the following simple solution, I'll show you a couple of ways to fix this.