Posts tagged with 'Linux'

Format a Linux Disk as Ext4 from the Command Line

There are plenty of guides for how to do this online. But I end up spending 20 minutes searching every time I need to remind myself how to do it, so I'm putting it here to save me that hassle. For the code, I'm just going to assume the drive is /dev/sdb. If you're following this, make sure you're using the correct…

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Viewing files on a Samba share that seem to be invisible from Windows

I just spent the past four hours trying to work this one out so posting here to hopefully save me time when I have the same issue in 6 months time. I've got a bunch of files on my unRAID server. For reasons then unknown, all of the files in one of the folders weren't showing up when viewed in Windows through the Samba…

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Force your Raspberry Pi to mount an external USB drive every time it starts up

I spent a while figuring this out about a month ago with a Linux expert colleague (hi, Caz!) but didn't write any of it down because it was going to be “fixed in the next release of Raspbmc”. I'm still getting the issue with the latest release so thought I'd best document the steps for when I inevitably have to do…

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