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From: "Lord Sauron" <lordsauronthegreat@gmail.com>
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On 3/31/06, Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 31, 2006 at 08:07:16PM -0800, Lord Sauron wrote
>
> > > $ man mount
> > > $ man fstab
> >
> > Wow... I didn't know that man had a fstab entry.  I thought it was
> > only for commands and stuff...
>
>   There are man pages for just about every file in the /etc directory.
> For optional packages, you do need to have the package installed to get
> the manpage.

Neat.

>   Another cute trick if you've got something plugged in, but don't know
> which device it's listed as; as root, execute the command...
>
> fdisk -l
>
>   The "l" (for "list") option lists all connected block devices, even it
> they aren't mounted.

Neater.  It's a wonder no one makes on great big document about all
this...  to me it looks like its spread all over the internet in ways
that makes it hard to find...

At least, I don't know about the great big authoritative document of
documentation...

> --
> Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org> In linux /sbin/init is Job #1
> My musings on technology and security at http://tech_sec.blog.ca
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