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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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How to enable NTFS support on CentOS Linux version 5 or 6? How do I mount ntfs partition under RHEL 5 or 6?

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Linux: Find Alternative Superblocks

by Vivek Gite on December 6, 2010 · 2 comments

I think my file system has been damaged. Instead of block 1, I want to use block n as superblock. How do I find out an alternative superblock location under Linux?

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How do I access my enterprise NAS server by mounting NFS filesystem onto my Mac OS X based system using GUI and command line based tools?

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Something is wrong with my RHEL networking configuration so I booted using my ISPs remote rescue kernel mode to fix my system. How do I mount and chroot into actual installation to fix the problem? How do I boot from any Live Linux CD and chroot into /dev/sda1 or /dev/md0 to fix the problem or recover the data?

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Recently my old desktop system crashed and I brought a new Ubuntu Laptop from Dell. To access my data from old hdd; I’ve attached my desktop harddisk using an external USB case. Now my old data is stored using external USB hard disk. How do I recover data from encrypted ~/.private home directory using an Ubuntu Live CD and copy it to existing laptop drive using known passphrase?

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I‘ve configured and mounted /var for squid caching and other purposes under Linux. I’ve noticed that the Linux file system keeps records of when files are created, updated, and accessed. My /var is exclusively used for caching purpose and I do not want to waste disk I/O while updating last-time-read attribute during reads and writes to files. How do I disable access time updates for /var partition?

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