it should be automatically mounted in a specific place. This is where fstab came in, and it was awesome. Suppose you swapped hard disks on your IDE or SCSI controller. The computer could load the file systems in a different order, potentially messing things up. Fstab ...
With the kernel installed, open the fstab file with your favorite text editor: nano-w/etc/fstab Indicate all of the partitions you created in fdisk. For example, in a UEFI system, your fstab file could look something like this: [...] /dev/sda1/boot/efi vfat defaults02 /dev/sda2/boo...
To make the swap file persistent across every reboot add an entry in thefstabfile. You can either use theechocommand orvieditor to edit the fstab file. # echo "swap_file swap swap defaults 0 0" >> /etc/fstab(or)$vi/etc/fstab/swap_file swap swap defaults00 Copy 5. Expand swap spac...
If you created the entry in the/etc/fstabfile, remove it. To remind you, it is the line:/swapfile swap swap defaults 0 0entry. Finally, delete the actual Linux Swap File. sudo rm /swapfile 5. Removing a Linux swap file How to adjust the Swappiness value Swappinessis a property of ...
1. Enable macOS's built-in NTFS write function (experimental)macOS comes with basic NTFS for Mac support, but it is turned off by default. You can try the following steps to enable it: Plug in the NTFS hard drive, open Terminal, and enter: sudo nano /etc/fstab Add...
If you want to generate a random UUID without having to remember which method is random, then use the command uuidgen. It defaults to random, but has the option to generate a UUID based on time and MAC address. Once you have a UUID, open /etc/fstab and copy that information to a ne...
I changed my entry in /etc/fstab from: /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-root / xfs defaults 1 1 to: /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-root / xfs defaults,discard 1 1 and rebooted the system. When I look at the mounts I don’t see the discard option: [root@pattest ~]# mount | grep VolGroup00-...
To auto-activate the swap file at boot, add the following line to/etc/fstab: /swap/swapfile none swap defaults 0 0 Encrypted swap file My entireroot filesystem is encrypted, but having unencrypted swap can still lead to sensitive data being inadvertently exposed. The solution is to encrypt ...
/etc/fstab is a file which contains some characters that look like XML (even though they’re not XML). This will cause the XML parser to try and parse these elements, only to notice that it’s not a valid XML document. Therefore, this limits XML External Entity (XXE) in the following...
The blog points at troubleshooting some of the common issues/scenario that are faces while working with Blobfuse. Following the article, you can isolate the...