April 14, 2010
While building with livecd-tools (livecd-creator) in Fedora 12, I ran into an issue where it will error out b/c it is unable to unmount. It returns a error message including: umount: /var/tmp/imgcreate-eNHsQm/install_root: device is busy. (In some cases useful info about processes that use I have managed to work around this by reviewing a couple [...]
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Fedora, Linux by mkhan
February 5, 2009
Parsing the modeline by vim in your files is off by default in most linux distros. In order to enable it, you have to add set modeline to the vimrc file. For more context, see: http://www.nabble.com/modeline-off-by-default–td18550230.html.
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Fedora, Linux, Ubuntu by mkhan
January 23, 2009
How to run fsck on LVM2 / volume that won’t mount and test mount / after fsck. 1. Boot to first CD and type “linux rescue” at boot: prompt 2. Choose “Skip”, The rescue environment will now attempt to find your Linux installation and mount… 3. Activate LVM so that the volume(s) can be accessed: [...]
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Fedora by mkhan