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Force fsck at reboot There are at least two ways to force a disk check (fsck) at reboot. Creating a /forcefsck file As root run the following command # touch /forcefsck Using the shutdown command...
HP Compaq 8540p hardware list in linux You can use lspci -n to analyce what hardware is on your system. My new laptop a HP EliteBook 8540p gives the following output: 00:00.0 0600: 8086:0044 (rev 12) 00:01.0 0604:...
Indent/format an entire file using vim You can format/indent an entire file using the vim editor and the gg=G command. gg - Goto the beginning of the file = - apply indentation G - till end of file If you decide...
Universally Unique Identifier UUID This is the command to print the UUID for a device. This may be used with UUID= in /etc/fstab as a more robust way to name devices that works even if disks are added and...