Automated files cleanup on Linux

🧹 My Messy Linux Box As year passes, my Linux system, over the time, starts to get a little… Messy. My ~/Downloads directory is a digital dumping ground. It’s a collection of ISOs, test scripts, and those huge multi-gigabyte Virtual Machine images I need to test once and then forget about. Add to that ~/Pictures/Screenshots, which is overflowing with thousands of quick snaps I’ll never look at again. Disk space is cheap nowadays, but I like to have things nice and clean. I could go in and manually clean it… But who remembers to do that ? ...

October 23, 2025 · Andrea Manzini

Linux Test Project part 2

👻 Intro While our previous post focused on the core components of LTP tests, today in this part boo two we’re taking a spooky deep dive into the options available in struct tst_test 🦇. The Linux Test Project (LTP) began as a collaborative effort between SGI, OSDL, and Bull. Today, it lives with the joint contributions of industry leaders including IBM, Cisco, Fujitsu, SUSE, Red Hat, Oracle, and others. Its mission remains clear: providing the open source community with comprehensive tests that verify Linux’s reliability, robustness, and stability. 🕸️ ...

October 27, 2024 · Andrea Manzini

SEGFAULT: Debugging a crashing application

🙀 Something breaks If you use linux running some applications you could have seen sometimes a similar error message: [1] 24975 segmentation fault (core dumped) what’s meaning and how it can be useful ? Let’s dig it out. 🧪 Lab Setup To make a proper case study, we need a crashing program. Of course they are very rare nowadays 😁 so we just create a new one ourself, showing off our worst C coding bad skills and practices. ...

April 5, 2024 · Andrea Manzini

First steps with Linux Test Project

🕵️ Intro The Linux Test Project is a joint project started years ago by SGI, OSDL and Bull developed and now maintained by IBM, Cisco, Fujitsu, SUSE, Red Hat, Oracle and many others. The project goal is to deliver tests to the open source community that validate the reliability, robustness, and stability of Linux. In these days I’m having a journey on the project so with this article I want to show step by step how to setup the project, how tests are actually written and give you a quick and dirty guide to write your first one. ...

February 10, 2024 · Andrea Manzini