And now, for a list of Linux commands i always forget about:
To get the GUID of a drive (so that a given hard drive ALWAYS mounts up under a given directory):
blkid /dev/drive
(and insert into /etc/fstab as:
UUID=UUID mount path ext3 defaults 0 2
To compare two different directories:
diff -rq dir1 dir2 > dirs.diff
To copy ginormous files:
rsync --inplace --progress --checksum --sparse --whole-file !*
After mounting a drive, make it available for NFS export by adding it to /etc/exports
/d2/ *(rw,sync,no_subtree_check)
and then running
exportfs -a
(This will keep NFS from reporting stale handles and locking on requests, even after a reboot.)
i've also learned to really appreciate Audio::WMA and MP3::Info to help me identify duplicate tracks (and which one to nuke).
Now, i wonder how long before i forget that i created this so i could remember the commands i forget.
(Hopefully, slightly longer than it took for me to figure out what the hell that last sentence meant.)
