You can always use http://my.pogoplug.com to access your files from any browser, but you can also mount or map PogoPlug volumes as virtual drives in Windows, Mac, and Linux. I have no experience with the Mac configurations to date. While the Windows executables are pretty straight forward, the Linux configuration is a bit more in [...]
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Create an empty file with a specific size
To create a 256MB empty file with 1KB block sizes on your Desktop:
$ sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=~/Desktop/myZeroFilledFile bs=1024 count=256000
If you would rather create the file filled with random data, run this instead:
$ sudo dd if=/dev/urandom of=~/Desktop/myZeroFilledFile bs=1024 count=256000
Creating additional emergency swapfile space in Linux
If you have a situation where your linux server is running low on virtual memory, you can temporarily add additional swap space on the fly. The following example will add 1GB of virtual memory with a block size of 1KB.
First, check the amount of existing swap you presently have configured:
$ free -tom
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