Linux

Linux: Mount Disk Partition Using LABEL

by Vivek Gite on September 22, 2011 · 1 comment

How do I mount the filesystem (disk partition) using the filesystem label on the ext3/ext4 file system located on USB disk or hard disk under Linux operating systems?

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Linux / Unix: Bash Find Matching All Dot Files

by Vivek Gite on September 14, 2011 · 4 comments

A dot-file is generally any file whose name begins with a full stop. In Linux or Unix like operating system it is also called as hidden file. How do I list all dot files in my home directory?

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Linux / Unix: Find Out What tty I’m Using

by Vivek Gite on September 14, 2011 · 0 comments

What is a tty under Linux / UNIX? How do I find out what tty I’m on?

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I recently installed NFS server v4 on my HP Linux server. However, I’m not able to mount it from Linux nfs4 client using the following command:

mount.nfs4 server2:/data /data

I’m getting the following error:

mount.nfs4: mounting server2:/data failed, reason given by server:
No such file or directory

How do I fix this problem?

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I‘ve used the mdadm command line utility to setup and manage software RAID 6 under Debian Linux server. However, I get the following message in /var/log/messages file:
[ 14.003707] JBD: barrier-based sync failed on md0-8 – disabling barriers

How do I fix the message ‘JBD error message “barrier-based sync failed”‘?

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Linux Delete / Remove MBR

by Vivek Gite on August 12, 2011 · 2 comments

I‘ve installed an usb image on Pen drive along with MBR. Now, I need to use this USB pen for other purpose. Is there a way in Linux to delete the mbr (just like dos fdisk /mbr command)?

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I‘m trying to download an ISO image for Enterprise Linux from RHN or Novell Suse. Both providers have placed ISO images behind paywall. I need to provide authentication credentials before downloading all files. How do I download ISO files using the wget command with user name and password?

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