The iPod shuffle is a great little device but unfortunately it is buit to work with iTunes and comes with an almost undecipherable file system and database. Apple’s motives are clear here, buy a Mac and use iTunes. Fortunately for us you can save your money as there are a variety of ways to sync [...]

VirtualBox makes it easy to share folders between the host OS and various guest virtual machines, but it can be difficult to remember the exact way to go about mounting the shared folder within a guest VM. Here is the way to do it correctly. First off make sure you have installed VirtualBox guest additions. [...]

You may already be familiar with NFS and Samba for sharing files over a network. While these are both great distributed filesystem solutions, they require extra configuration and setup overhead in order to get them to work. If you want quick and easy access to a remote filesystem then SSHFS may be your best shot. [...]

An ISO image is an archive file (disk image) of an optical disc using a conventional ISO (International Organization for Standardization) format. ISO image files typically have a file extension of .ISO. Many times is convenient to mount an ISO file directly instead of burning it to a CD first. Not only does this save [...]

When you run the find command on the root directory of a system you may want to exclude all network filesystems and confine your search to only your local machine. The benefits of this are obvious as it will save you a great amount of time especially if the mounted filesystem is very large. Luckily [...]