Category: Hardware/Disk Management

Dealing with multiple USB sound devices

Ever been plagued by your linux system detecting your webcam as the first sound device instead of your USB headset?  This is a common problem with Linux, but can be easily remedied with editing your systems module configuration.  On Ubuntu, the important file is /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf.  This file controls the module settings and parameters for the […]

Boot Sector Management

As promised, tonight we explore boot sector management on X86 style hardware.  Anyone who works with PC hardware long enough, and especially those using linux as primary or secondary OS in a dual boot configuration will find this information valuable. The system boot sector on x86 style hardware is crucial to being able to boot […]

Disk and Partition Imaging using dd

Linux provides an abundance of advanced command line tools to manage and modify just about anything on your system.  Today we will explore the use of dd, the primary tool on linux for creating and restoring disk images, among other things. The dd (diskdump) on Linux can be used to backup an entire disk or […]