Linux Troubleshooting

Mount NTFS Drives in Gnu/Linux

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To enable NTFS support in Gnu/Linux,you should have the support for?NTFS your Linux kernel.You can check that by running cat /proc/partitions If you do not have thr NTFS support then you can either compile your Linux kernel for ntfs support or install NTFS modules from http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/ Linux kernel does?not give full NTFS write support on … Read more

How to write protect important files

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Protect some files from users with sudo access to modify it
How to write protect important file (even root can NOT modify/delete it)

If you have some internal application developed to manage the
users and other stuff. However some admin still some time make changes
/etc/passwd or /etc/master.passwd via sudo. Then the idea of file write
protection comes. I suggested to use them chflags.

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Failed to unmount CD Drives?

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Unable to unmount drives due to “Drive is busy status” ? just run look if you have any open workspace on the drive location then run fuser -k? /path/where/the/drive/is/mounted or fuser -k? /device (for ex. fuser -k /dev/cdrom) then proceed as normal umounting procedure This is usefull for CDroms which are sometimes stuck on some … Read more