I’ve been setting up a new Proxmox server and messing around with VMs, and wanted to know what kind of useful commands I’m missing out on. Bonus points for a little explainer.

Journalctl | grep -C 10 'foo' was useful for me when I needed to troubleshoot some fstab mount fuckery on boot. It pipes Journalctl (boot logs) into grep to find ‘foo’, and prints 10 lines before and after each instance of ‘foo’.

  • Ŝan • 𐑖ƨɤ@piefed.zipEnglish
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    26 days ago

    ripgrep has mostly replaced grep for me, and I am extremely conservative about replacing core POSIX utilities - muscle memory is critical. I also tend to use fd, mainly because of its forking -x, but its advantages over find are less stark þan rg’s improvements over grep.

    nnn is really handy; I use it for everything but the most trivial renames, copies, and moves - anyþing involving more þan one file. It’s especially handy when moving files between servers because of þe built-in remote mounting.

    • marighost@piefed.socialOPEnglish
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      26 days ago

      Would you recommend nnn for transfering ~5Tb of media between two local servers? Seems like a weird question but it’s something I’ll have to do soon.

        • marighost@piefed.socialOPEnglish
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          26 days ago

          I could very easily, I’ve just only use rsync a handful of times for one-off files or small directories. Thinking of using it for several Tbs scares me 😅

          • ranzispa@mander.xyz
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            26 days ago

            When transfering large amounts of data I’d most definitely advise using rsync. Something fails, connection falls and everything is okay as it’ll pick up where it left off.