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fixed typos in system-admin pages : tick.greyware.com is the right URL
for the time server, tick.grayware.com doesn't work
author tux@HarimaKenji
date Mon Jul 14 22:22:15 2008 +0200 (2008-07-14)
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paul@63 24 <h1><font color="#3E1220">SliTaz Handbook (en)</font></h1>
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paul@63 31 <h2><font color="#DF8F06">System Tools</font></h2>
paul@63 32
paul@63 33 <ul>
paul@63 34 <li><a href="#clex">Clex</a> - Command line File Manager.</li>
paul@64 35 <li><a href="#emelfm2">emelFM2</a> - File Manager.</li>
paul@63 36 <li><a href="#htop">Htop</a> - View system processes.</li>
paul@63 37 <li><a href="#mountbox">Mountbox</a> - Mount devices.</li>
paul@63 38 <li><a href="#gparted">Gparted</a> - Partition a hard drive.</li>
paul@63 39 <li><a href="network-config.html#netbox">Netbox</a> - Configure network.</li>
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paul@63 41
paul@63 42 <a name="clex"></a>
paul@63 43 <h3>Clex - Command line File Manager</h3>
paul@63 44 <p>
paul@68 45 To navigate through your folders and directories you can use <code>cd</code> on the command line or
paul@68 46 launch the 'Clex File Manager'. Using ncurses, clex is fast and easy to use and can be configured through
paul@68 47 the files ~/.clexrc and ~/.clexbm (bookmarks) or via the panel (ctrl -g). To start clex from a terminal or
paul@68 48 console:
paul@63 49 </p>
paul@63 50 <pre>
paul@63 51 $ clex
paul@63 52 </pre>
paul@63 53
paul@63 54 <a name="emelfm2"></a>
paul@63 55 <h3>emelFM2 - File Manager</h3>
paul@63 56 <p>
paul@68 57 EmelFM2 is a file manager providing many useful functions for daily tasks such as managing devices, opening
paul@68 58 a terminal in the current directory, drag and drop, create/rename directories, key bindings or managing file
paul@68 59 permissions. It contains bookmarks to allow you to browse faster, a text editor/viewer and much more.
paul@68 60 EmelFM2 can be launched with some command line options - you can specify the dustbin directory or set the
paul@68 61 start directory to display. For a full list of options:
paul@63 62 <code>$ emelfm2 --help</code>.
paul@63 63 </p>
paul@63 64 <p>
paul@68 65 The context menu (right click on file/directory) makes it easy to unpack <code>.taz .gz</code> archives,
paul@68 66 compress and create archives or compare files. You can also create symbolic links via 'Create a link...'.
paul@68 67 Once learnt, emelFM2 will allow you to work quickly and effectively.
paul@63 68 </p>
paul@63 69
paul@63 70 <a name="htop"></a>
paul@63 71 <h3>Htop - View system processes</h3>
paul@63 72 <p>
paul@68 73 Htop is a system process viewer that displays cpu load, memory state (RAM) and swap used. It can also
paul@68 74 display the number of tasks, uptime and PIDs of active processes. Htop can be used with the keyboard in
paul@68 75 console mode, the mouse with a X terminal (xterm) and provides configuration options (F2). Htop can also
paul@68 76 kill processes and you can select items with the up/down arrows or a mouse click. Note htop also functions
paul@68 77 via SSH and can be used to monitor a remote server:
paul@63 78 </p>
paul@63 79 <pre>
paul@63 80 $ htop
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paul@63 82
paul@63 83 <a name="mountbox"></a>
paul@63 84 <h3>Mountbox - Mount devices</h3>
paul@63 85 <p>
paul@63 86 Mountbox is a small GTK+ application to quickly mount media
paul@68 87 such as a USB drive, hard drive or cdrom. Mountbox can be launched from a terminal or via the Tools menu
paul@68 88 (System Tools). Simply specify the peripheral (Device) and the mount point, ie the directory where you want
paul@68 89 to access the media in question. Typically a CD is mounted on /media/cdrom, a USB key on /media/flash and
paul@68 90 disk drives on the local machine on /mnt. Note the <a href="system-admin.html#devices">handbook</a> also
paul@68 91 contains some information.
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paul@63 93
paul@63 94 <a name="gparted"></a>
paul@63 95 <h3>Gparted - Partition a hard drive</h3>
paul@63 96 <p>
paul@63 97 Gparted is a graphical application making it possible to manage the partitions of a local hard drive or USB media.
paul@68 98 It allows you to reformat, resize or check a partition on a hard drive and is the tool of choice if you need
paul@68 99 to prepare a partition to install SliTaz. Gparted supports proper GNU/Linux filesystems (ext2 and ext3)
paul@68 100 via mkfs and Parted automatically handles dependancies.
paul@63 101 </p>
paul@63 102
paul@63 103 <h4>Support FAT and NTFS filesystems</h4>
paul@63 104 <p>
paul@68 105 To have the support of FAT16 or Windows FAT32 filesystems, you must install the package
paul@68 106 <code>dosfstools</code>. To support NTFS read/write you need to install: <code>fuse</code>,
paul@68 107 <code>ntfs-3g</code> and <code>ntfprogs</code>.
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