Where to learn Linux?

[Baruch Siach]

Hi Shlomi,

On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 10:36:46AM +0200, Shlomi Fish wrote:
> On Monday 15 Mar 2010 10:24:04 sammy ominsky wrote:
> > On 15/03/2010, at 09:53, Jonathan Ben Avraham wrote:
> > > Hi Dov,
> > > Not far off at all from the original question. The first thing that I
> > > look for in an employee or consultant is is he has this feel for the
> > > state that you mention. If the employee has only used Windows or Mac at
> > > the GUI level, then the chance of his understanding the system state is
> > > very small because the visual pane of Windows and Mac that is designed
> > > to make things easy effectively prevents all understanding of the system
> > > state.
> > 
> > Honestly, even though I spend many hours a day on the command line of
> > debian servers, I feel I've ruined myself for linux by delving too far
> > into OS X on the command line :)
> > 
> > OS X doesn't prevent understanding of the system state at all, it just
> > doesn't force that understanding.  If the desire to delve is present, the
> > command line offers much deeper system access than the GUI ever could. 
> > It's very different than linux, though.
> > 
> > Someone plugged a USB drive into one of the servers in a data center in the
> > US, and for the life of me, I couldn't think of anything on a debian
> > system that would give me a list of all attached disks. On OS X, I'd just
> > type 'diskutil list' (output at the bottom of this email, if anyone's
> > curious).  In the end, dmesg told me where to find the disk, but maybe
> > it's time for some disk utility on linux that's caught up to the present? 
> > cfdisk is great if you already know what device you want :)
> 
> Why aren't "mount" (with no arguments) or "df" good enough?

I guess the device is not mounted yet.

baruch

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