hints & tricks in no particular order
13/04/2013
I got problems with a linux machine with a very small /boot partition. It wouldn't install any updates anymore and would complain about boot partition being full. I found out that many kernel versions were stored in this partition, and I did a bit of cleanup -- which turned out quite bad because I deleted the active […]
13/04/2013
Beware when creating files with Linux on a Windows partition! Some characters which are allowed in Linux are forbidden in Windows, making those files unavailable. Chkdsk would even treat the files as corrupted and will rename them and put them in a LOST.DIR. So, forbidden characters in Windows are NUL : and \. Some […]