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How do I name a partition?
Currently, I have a partition where Crunchbang is installed, which shows up as a folder in Mint named either 0d71227f-66fc-45ac-8bfc-93280b93dc8c or "10.0 GB Volume".
First question is, of ...
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Moving stuff off of SSD to HDD after installation. Using mount --bind? LiveCD?
I installed Ubuntu 12.10 on my SSD. /dev/sda1. No other partitions. No swap.
Then I went about reading how to optimize usage, and have come to the conclusion I want my /home, /var and /tmp mounted on ...
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How to mount an encrypted TrueCrypt partition always in the same point?
I just formatted my external HD and divided it in two partitions: an ext4 where important information will be, and a ntfs for "compatibility" things (i.e. movies, music, etc).
I encrypted the ext4 ...
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/var has most of the drive space. Need / to have most of it
So when my host setup my dedi, they seemed to apply most of the drive space to /var
I am on cpanel, and need most of the space for the /home directory where all the accounts and data are.
But on ...
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Really umount external drive
I had a USB drive mounted on /dev/sdb1 and I want to reformat from NTFS to ext3. I did umount -l which unmounted the disk. I deleted the old partition using cfdisk. I ran mkfs.ext3, but got the error:
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How to mount some folders on a different partition
I recently got an SSD for my computer. Therefore I reinstalled my system and mounted / on /dev/sda1 (which is a partition on the SSD).
To protect the SSD, I managed to mount /tmp on the RAMdisk. ...
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disk labels mismatch [closed]
I've added a new disk in a hurry and now I have several mismatches. Would anyone care to help me to sort them out. Below I'm giving fstab, fdisk -l,
df -la (apparently "/" (root) is duplicated ??, ...
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Unable to mount /home/ partition after reinstalling grub after reinstalling windows 7
I've reinstall windows 7 on it's asignated partition and, as usually, it override the MBR with it's own stuff and, thus, it was not possible to boot to my ubuntu 12.04 partition.
I followed the step ...
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Help with unzipping a .dd.gz, possibly corrupted
I recieved this file that I was told was a copy of a hard drive (or disk). The file is "sheeva-mem.dd.gz". I tried to unzip the file in a linux Fedora machine. This yielded "unexpected end of file". ...
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How to mount ext3,ext4 sitting on VDI VirtualBox HDD?
How to mount ext3, ext4 partition sitting on "Fixed-Size VDI" VirtualBox HardDisk ?
To be more specific, I ma interested in case when VM is not running.
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Mount NTFS image file created using partimage
From an old disk which I don't have at hand, I have created a file named winxp.img using partimage. As the filename suggests, the partition contained Windows XP and was formatted with NTFS.
(The ...
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Partition not mounting from fstab
I have mounted a partition and add it to fstab file and then rebooted but I see that the partition is not mounted although it was added to fstab.
What is wrong, and how can I solve it?
fstab line:
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Partition mounted noexec even though not specified in /etc/fstab
I'm using Linux Mint 12. There I have several partitions which I auto-mount on startup. pysdm says that /dev/sda6 should permit execution of binaries. Also the /etc/fstab says it should.
/dev/sda7 ...
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Partitioning Ubuntu and Windows 7 once and for all
I am dual-booting Windows 7 and Ubuntu (installed with wubi). So far there have been no problems, but now it says the disk is out of space all the time (I think that is because /dev/loop0 is used 100% ...
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What is the concept of Drives in Unix Systems?
In windows, we have C drives where all the softwares are installed and other partitions e.g; D, E etc to store our data. Now once we reinstall the windows for some reason, we install everything again ...
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Create iso image of ext3 type
I want to create an ISO image which can be mounted with an ext3 partition type. How can I do that?
I am using this command:
[root@manage upload]# dd if=testParti.txt of=./diskImage.iso
41+1 records ...
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What mount points exist on a typical Linux system?
I have 2 questions.
During Linux installation we specify memory space for 2 mount points - root and swap. Are there any other mount points created without the users notice?
Is this statement ...
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How to change mount points
I'm not very deep into this mounting/unmouting think on Linux, so here goes my question:
With df -h I get the following overview:
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 ...
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Different linux distros sharing the same /home folder?
what is the best way to share the same /home directories between different linux distribution?
I mean, I want to have both , say, Fedora and Arch, and I want to find my files at home no matter which ...
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Mounting a partition into a 'sandbox'
I'm wondering if this is possible. I want to set up a linux system that mounts / remote linux machine to / on the local machine. However, I want all changes on the local machine to be saved to ram so ...
