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General Notes for Linux

Determine file system of drives attached to the machine

  • Run sudo parted and them type print all to see all the drives and partitions on the machine

Delete a partition

  • Run sudo parted /dev/<drive> and then decide which partition you want to remove, then run rm <number>

Create a partition

  • Run sudo parted /dev/<drive> and then type mkpar ext4 0% 100% to create the partition

Upgrade Ubuntu/Linux from the command line

  • Run hostnamectl to determine the current linux version
  • Run lsb_release -a to determine the current Ubuntu version
  • Run sudo apt update to update the list of packages
  • Run sudo apt upgrade -y to upgrade the installed packages
  • Run sudo apt dist-upgrade -y to make any additional upgrades that involve changing dependencies, adding or removing new packages as necessary
  • Run sudo do-release-upgrade to do an upgrade to the latest LTS version of ubuntu.