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Is it possible to set the device containing a linux root filesystem to always be detected as a specific block device?
I have a bootable linux thumb drive meant to deploy linux OS images and I've been having problems with the thumb drive occasionally changing the /dev/sd device it mounts as, wreaking havoc with the ...
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How to determine the used size of device associated's buffer
when mounting a device without the "sync" option, e. g. by invoking the following:
mount -o async /dev/sdc1 /mnt
a buffer is associated with a device to optimize (speed) read/write operations. Is ...
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How to find a certain device and mount it correctly
I have booted with the System Rescue CD and I have figured out how to mount a windows partition by using for example mount or ntfs-3g. But how do I know what device is what drive? If I have some ...
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fdisk -l shows a partition is not in /dev directory
I am having troubles on mounting my ntfs hard drive on linux. I am running ophcrack live CD.
fdisk shows me the hard drive I have installed on my computer
fdisk -l
Disk /dev/hdc: 30.0 GB, ...
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How can I tell what block size a mounted device uses, which has no mounted volumes
This seems absurdly easy, and I have the idea I used to know how to find out, but...
On Mac Os 10.4, I want to do a raw copy from/two two devices using dd if=*inputdev* of=*outputdev* ibs=?? obs=??. ...
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Linux fstab mounting
I'm trying to get fstab to auto-mount a removable device when its plugged in? Is this possible and if not what is the easiest way to auto-mount a removable device?
