UNIX

Notes for Unix-like, such as Linux (WSL), macOS, bash.

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• How to check disk in hexadecimal by bytes in terminal on Mac or Linux

  2023-07-05 ｜ #Words: 546

  Before start to introduce, something be emphasized: This method does not guarantee to view all hard disks. Some hard disks will display Resource busy due to some reasons, such as Time Machine and built-in hard disks.

• Mount and unmount external hard drive on Mac by diskutil in Terminal

  2023-07-05 ｜ #Words: 1284

  Recently, when I used macOS to mount an external hard drive, I couldn’t mount it using mount. Many articles didn’t explain the various situations in detail, so I wrote a blog to record it.

• How to move installed WSL (Ubuntu) to another drive or location

  2022-09-16 ｜ #Words: 452

  Due to my C drive is almost full, and not empty much after try to clean it, so I plan to move WSL to a new drive.

• What is format of man page in Linux and macOS? How to write a man page

  2022-07-27 ｜ #Words: 576

  In Linux and macOS, we often need to use `man xxx` to view the introduction and usage of a program, system call, etc. This interface is called `manual page`, but sometimes it is simply called `manpage`.

• How to access Windows files in WSL

  2022-05-12 ｜ #Words: 69

  First enter WSL, then enter the root directory `/`, and use `ls` to see a directory named `mnt` (mnt is the abbreviation of mount).