Skip to content

Tag Archives: filesystem

Mounting an NTFS filesystem

13-Jan-10

Mounting an NTFS filesystem Suppose your ntfs filesystem is /dev/sda1 and you are going to mount it on /mymnt/win, do the following. First, create a mount point. mkdir /mymnt/win Next, edit /etc/fstab as follows. To mount read-only: /dev/sda1 /mymnt/win ntfs-3g ro,umask=0222,defaults 0 0 To mount read-write: /dev/sda1 /mymnt/win ntfs-3g rw,umask=0000,defaults 0 0 You can now [...]

Running fsck on your server

24-Nov-09

Q. My laptop partition  /dev/sdb1  is showing file system error, how  do i use fsck command to check for file system error and repair the partition. Solution  is to use   fsck – check and repair a Linux file system or use e2fsck – check a Linux ext2/ext3 file system. Device              Start       End Blocks      [...]