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Excerpt: Extundelete is a simple and effective tool helps to recover files / directory from ext3 and ext4 filesystems. Although many recovery tools are available this tool is really so simple and a real life saver for admins or user who accidently removed any important files or directory. Extundelete uses the information stored in the partition’s journal to attempt to recover a file that has been deleted from the partition.   Installing Extundelete   Source installation is simple and it can be done in just 2 minutes. Before installing it from source, make sure you have already installed the e2fsprogs version 1.41 and e2fslibs packages….

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Excerpt: There are two main compression utilities used in GNU/Linux. It’s normal to first “tar” a bunch of files (using the tar program of course) and then compress them with either bzip2 or gzip. Of course either of these tools could be used without tar, although they are not designed to work on more than one file (they use the UNIX tools philosophy, let tar group the files, they will do the compression…this simplifies their program). It’s normal to use tar and then use these tools on them, or use tar with the correct options to use these compression programs.     GNU zip….

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Excerpt: To share your directory with others on your network or even on the internet, you can use the twisted tool to share your folders (similar to web and ftp or even on other ports).   How to install twisted on CentOS?   Twisted is a python based tool, you need rpms like python-twisted-core, pyOpenSSL, python-zope-interface to install the too. You can make use of the RPMforge rpm repo on yum to install the tool on your server or destop easily.   Ssh your server as root.   # cd /usr/src # Goto http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories/RPMForge Download and install the correct repo based on your os arch and version. Now install the Twistd tool….