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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 […]
There is usually some orphan packages left on the system after upgrading Ubuntu from one major version to another. These packages can cause strange errors like Ubuntu bug #151045. The solution to this problem is a package named deborphan. deborphan removes orphan packages that are left on your Ubuntu installation and you should run this […]