The rootfs is a squashfs image and my bootloader is loading it into some address in SDRAM. What parameters do I need to pass to the kernel so It can mount the rootfs from there? Squashfs support is built-in and it already works with
When I fire command vmstat -s on my Linux box, I got stats as:
How to add more /dev/loop* devices on Fedora 19? I do:
In any linux system I have access to (a couple of Archlinuxes, an Ubuntu, a Debian Sid and a Gentoo) there are the following 4 files in /etc/, all ending with a dash:
I am trying to set up a VPN (using OpenVPN) such that all of the traffic, and only the traffic, to/from specific processes goes through the VPN; other processes should continue to use the physical device directly. It is my understanding that the way to do this in Linux is with network namespaces.
I read some articles/tutorials on ‘ifconfig’ command, most of them included a common statement –
I am partitioning eMMC using following commands in the script,
I want to automatically test if a piece of software reacts as expected if an essential SQLite DB file fails to be read (causing an I/O error). Exactly that happened some days ago at a client. We manually fixed it but now I want to create automatic code to fix it and need access to a broken file to test that.
I am trying to create a script which will start many background command.
For each background command I need to get the return code.
Every now and then I need to reinstall Linux system (mainly Ubuntu based distros). The process of reinstalling every piece of software I need is really boring and time consuming. Is there any software that can help me out? For Windows there is Ninite, is there something else for Linux?