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Query an overlayfs
I'm looking for a way to query a mounted overlay filesystem [overlayfs] in order to check it's upper and lower dir but till now I didn' find any suitable command.
Please , someone in the list know is ...
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UDF and fstab (no UUID)
In my search for the ideal filesystem to share files between a lot of computer with a lot of different OS'es I accepted this answer and installed a UDF filesystem on my USB stick.
First I blanked the ...
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creating custom mount point in / for a file system
If I want to mount a file system at /myname is it possible by just editing fstab file?
Or should I do more to be safer?
Is any other way to do it, or its not a good idea to do?
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Can I configure my Linux system for more aggressive file system caching?
I am neither concerned about RAM usage (as I've got enough) nor about losing data in case of an accidental shut-down (as my power is backed, the system is reliable and the data are not critical). But ...
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/etc/fstab is mounting rw filesystem as read-only
A partition of my internal hard drive (not the root partition) I want to mount automatically on boot. I've been using /etc/fstab to mount my external backup drive automatically read-only, so this is ...
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mount ramfs as user
My fstab entry:
none /home/jreinhart/ramdisk ramfs defaults,user 0 0
The directory before mounting:
drwxrwxr-x 2 jreinhart jreinhart 4096 Oct 17 11:31 ramdisk
The directory after ...
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How are NTFS drives handled by Linux? Nothing is in fstab yet it's automounted. Nothing in mtab yet it's currently mounted
I'm running Fedora 14 with the 2.6.35.13-92.fc14.i686 kernel and Gnome 2.32.0. I have a few NTFS drives that are mounted when I start up. However, there is no entry for them in fstab and nothing in ...
