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How to kill a stuck linux mount

By On 18 March 2016 · Leave a Comment

How can you remove a mounted USB stick or USB HDD from the list of mounted devices?

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We have all done it – in a hurry you unplug a USB drive which was mounted in your Linux system without properly unmounting it and then it sits there in your list of mounts and you […]

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How to setup Samba

By On 10 October 2012 · Leave a Comment

Best Samba how-to I’ve ever seen:

http://alien.slackbook.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=slackware:samba

It is somewhat slackware-centric but could easily use it on Fedora and was able to setup a shared folder and access it from Windows in no-time.

NOTE: If after doing everything your windows machine STILL can not see/access/login-into your samba server do a “service smb restart”.

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Help I can’t write to my windows disk/partition from linux!

By On 25 March 2011 · Leave a Comment

There may be several possible causes why one would not be able to access their Windows hard disk or windows partition. If we assume that obvious human errors are out of the question (e.g. permissions errors due user not having write permissions to the directory of the mount or user not specifying the ‘-o w’ […]

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