Creates a single primary partition starting at sector 0 and extending to the end of the disk. Use with care.

this work even if a partition table exist

small update for this command to work with linux kernels 3.x

This command displays the CPU idle + used time using stats from /proc/stat.

If you changed the default policy on any chain other than filter table chain's, this won't be enough.

Shows all configurations to apt and dpkg, rarely changed, you probably still have the default configuration. Go ahead and explore your configuration if you dare, perhaps change your apt-cache directory, Dir::Cache "var/cache/apt/"; or the names of the log files.

Converts a number of bytes provided as input, to a human readable number.

You need to have figlet(for font) and cowsay installed.

Just copy n paste this command and you can see.....

You need to have figlet(for font) and cowsay installed then add it to your .bashrc file.You can see it every time after start a new session.

Assumes that the files are named as such: 01-Filename.mp3

If your files are named differently, change the number of periods in the sed 's/...\(.*\)/\1' bit to match the numbers of characters you need to cut off the front of the file.

Note: This only writes the titles.

Assumes that the files are named in numerical order (ie. 01 Filename.mp3). It will set the track number as tracknumber/totaltracks (ie. 1/14). This will write both ID3v1 and ID3v2 tags.

Note: This only writes the track numbers.

this will open a new tab in firefox for every line in a file

the sleep is removable but i found that if you have a large list of urls 50+, and no sleep, it will try to open all the urls at once and this will cause them all to load a lot slower, also depending on the ram of your system sleep gives you a chance to close the tabs before they overload your ram, removing & >2/dev/null will yield unpredictable results.

Unmounts all CIFS-based network drives. Very nice for shutting down network mounts on a Linux laptop just prior to going to sleep.

Just an alternative with more advanced formating for readability purpose. It now uses colors (too much for me but it's a kind of proof-of-concept), and adjust columns.

after kernel build with make deb-pkg, I like to install the 4 newest packages that exist in the directory. Beware: might be fewer for you....

since awk was already there one can use it instead of the 2 greps. might not be faster, but fast enough

Very simple web server listening on port 80 will serve index.html file or whatever file you like pointing your browser at http://your-IP-address/index.html for example.

If your web server is down for maintenance and you'd like to inform your visitors about it, quickly and easily, you just have to put into the index.html file the right HTML code and you are done! Of course you need to be root to run the command using port 80.

Find all files in /var/spool/mqueue older than 7 days, pass to perl to efficiently delete them (faster than xargs or -exec when you've got millions or hundreds of thousands to delete). Naturally the type, directory, and file age vars can be adjusted to meet your specific needs.

Instead of deleting an existing symlink and then re-creating it pointing at the new location, it is possible to perform the same action with this one command.

Interesting discussion on whether this is possible to do atomically here: http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=526119