Linux commands for beginners: how to print the working directory

In Linux system, the working directory is known as the directory which you are standing. When you first log on to a Linux system, the working directory is set to your home directory. To know the name of the working directory, use the pwd command. The following example shows me that I’m standing in directory /home/me

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How to write to Linux partitions from Windows

So far, I have provided different methods to write to NTFS partition in Ubuntu and to read Linux partitions from Windows. Now is the suitable time to know how to write to Linux partition from Windows.
First of all, I would like to thank Stephan Schreiber who has designed and implemented Ext2 Installable File System software. This freeware application provides Windows NT4.0/2000/XP/2003 with full access to Linux Ext2 volumes ( both read and write access). This may be useful if you have installed both Windows and Linux as a dual boot environment on your computer. Now, I will show you how to install this driver. Once this driver is installed on Windows, you can easily mount a Linux partition on your computer into Windows and assign a drive letter to it.

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How to create a hotkey to open terminal

In last post, I told you how to use existing hot keys to save time. However, we can also create hot keys to run other applications in Ubuntu. For example, how can we create a hotkey to launch a new terminal? It is too easy to do that because Ubuntu has a built-in utility for assigning shortcut keys.

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