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This post describes my workflow in recovering data from defective harddrives. These harddrives are usually not readable in Windows and in most cases not even readable or mountable in linux as well. One of the great things with linux is all the tools that are available, just do a Google search and you find forum […]
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 # shutdown -rF now Note This command switch might not work on modern Linux operating systems since they use Upstart instead of the old […]
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: 8086:0045 (rev 12) 00:16.0 0780: 8086:3b64 (rev 06) 00:19.0 0200: 8086:10ea (rev 06) 00:1a.0 0c03: 8086:3b3c (rev 06) 00:1b.0 0403: 8086:3b56 (rev 06) 00:1c.0 […]
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 not to indent your file, just press u to undo the last operation.
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 removed. Ubuntu 10.04 uses this in their /etc/fstab file. Example 1 Print UUID to partition /dev/sda1 # blkid -o value […]