Disk partition labels
Posted: 2023-09-30 Filed under: system | Tags: disk, disk label, e2label, efi, ext2, fstab, label, mkfs.vfat, mkfs.xfs, mkswap, swap, swaplabel, XFS Leave a commentThat’s something I never had the habit of doing… labeling my disk partitions. However, I’d like to make things a bit easier to remember. After searching a bit, I came up with the following. I was doing a fresh install of Slackware and was going to format the partitions anyway.
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SSD trouble
Posted: 2016-01-16 Filed under: system | Tags: discard, error, ext4, ext4_find_entry, filesystem, fstab, noatime, relatime, SSD, trim, unable to read itable block 3 CommentsOne of my PCs has a 60.0 GB Corsair Force GT SandForce Driven SSD. When I bought it, I read a bit about SSDs and I set several options in my /etc/fstab. However, whenever copying some big files, the system seemed to hang for a while. In other cases, the it would just crash, killing X and leaving me in the console, but even shutting down was not possible. It would spit out errors, containing stuff like: Read the rest of this entry »
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