sys-unconfig command to reconfigure your system from next boot..

sys-unconfig is a shell script to reconfigure the system upon next boot .. The man page description is more than enough to know what parameters are reconfigured from next boot.. sys-unconfig provides a simple method of reconfiguring a system in a new environment. Upon executing sys-unconfig will halt your system, and run the following configuration …

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mount beautifully !

This is small tweak to display the output of the mount command in a more aesthetic way. Until now, many of you would be using the mount command in a way that requires you to stretch your eyes to look at what exactly you want. Instead you can use the pipe to pass the output …

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Install bit torrent client ( transmission) for fedora ..

Friday or drive by post here 🙂 How to install and use bit torrent clients in fedora? its as simple as that: You need to install ‘transmission’ package to get bit torrent client for fedora. Once you installed it, bit torrent client is ready to use for torrent action. You can either use ‘transmission” cli …

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Analyse system boot up performance by ‘systemd’ or ‘systemd-analyse:’ in fedora

systemd-analyse binary has different options to list this: 2 of the interesting options are ‘time’ and ‘blame’    ‘systemd-analyze time’ prints the time spent in the kernel before userspace has been reached, the time spent in the initial RAM disk (initrd) before normal system userspace has been reached and the time normal system userspace took …

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file is not owned by any package ? Ahh.. Whats wrong ?

One of my friend was trying to see , which rpm/package provide /usr/bin/java in his system by below method.. [terminal] [root@ ~]# which java /usr/bin/java [root@ ~]# rpm -qf /usr/bin/java file /usr/bin/java is not owned by any package [root@ ~]# [/terminal] Its a common practice that checking a particular file/binary is provided by which rpm …

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What is “BIOS BOOT” filesystem type in fedora and why it is required ?

Today while installing Fedora-18 , I noticed an error at installation window ( the place where you define storage partitions). The installer option “begin installation” at bottom of the window was greyed out. By Clicking the error message details from the anaconda screen, I was told that, it is missing “BIOS BOOT” filesystem type. So, …

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