Many storage commands in Linux have the ability to delete your data, which you can accidently do if you're not careful. Proceed with caution if you're a newcomer, and always remember to keep a backup ...

For that, you’ll need to make use of the mount command. Mount does exactly what you think it does, it mounts an external drive to your internal filesystem. But it’s not exactly that simple.

The non-superuser mounts. Normally, only the superuser can mount filesystems. However, when fstab contains the user option on a line, anybody can mount the corresponding filesystem. Thus, given a line ...

There are a number of Linux commands that will display file system types along with the file system names, mount points and such. Some will also display sizes and available disk space.

Unless you have proper Anonymous/Guest authentication working on the windows box, you need to pass the proper username/password in to the mount command, using -o username=<username>.

Listing files by age or size To list files by age, use the -ltr arguments with the ls command. Here’s an example that displays the five most recently updated files: $ ls -ltr | tail -5 -rw ...

The smbmount command, like all good Linux commands, has a few options to pass to the command. The biggest difference in these options is they are passed as a comma-separated list of key=value pairs.

Dear linux-security subscribers, this is urgent matter, so please read carefully. This is not a security advisory, but equally important for all of you that NFS mount SFU's patched RedHat ...