The 10 Golden Rules for Troubleshooting Linux

[kalephunk]

I'm doing a brain vomit, and you're the lucky recipient of my geek bile!

1. Man pages exist and should be used.  Seriously, everything's there, from application docs to syscall docs to syntax and formatting of log files.

2. Don't reinvent the wheel.  99% of problems you're experiencing or ever will experience, somebody's already gone through it and

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[vees]

Found out #9 for (amazingly) the first time on my Eee PC, where unionfs decided to keep tmp files around as 0 byte files but was unable to delete them. It's a known unionfs bug, and requires rebooting into the recovery mode to mount the filesystem individually and search and destroy all the hidden files.