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Howdy, I have renamed a directory on NFS ver 3 server and then created a new directory again with the same name. # mv dir dir-hosed # mkdir dir The directory is auto-mounted on client side. I had unmounted directories on client side before making above changes. Now when I try to mount back 'dir', I still see old files and not new empty dir. Am I missing something here in the NFS config?

Hi, I need to mount a LVM in rescue mode to create a new initrd image. I am not sure how do I fond out which LogVol is to be mounted. How do I find it out? In most of the configs I have used LogVol00 with ext3 filesystem which contains OS install. This particular system is not installed by me and I am not sure how do I find it out. I did try 'lvm lvs' command, but probably that's not

Hi, I am getting following error on creating a swap fs. CentOS 5.5 {{{ mkswap: unable to relabel /srv/cloud/one/var/25/images/disk.1 to system_u:object_r:swapfile_t: Operation not supported }}} The selinux is configured in permissive mode. Any clues on what might be wrong here and how to fix it? {{{ # /bin/dd if=/dev/zero of=/srv/cloud/one/var/25/images/disk.1 bs=1 count=1 seek=512M # sudo

I am trying to mount a logical volume for creating new initrd image. The lvs command is showing a logical volume with 'd' attribute - device present without tables. It's getting listed under /dev/mapper but not under /dev/VolGroup00. Any help on what might be wrong here? -- thanks, neuby.r

How do I pass xargs input one line at a time to subsequent command? For example I want to install rubygems by reading a text file as shown below, however the arguments are getting passed all at once to the 'gem install' command. I hace tried -L (max-lines) and -n (max args) options, but it didn't work. What's missing here?? Any help? $ cat gem.list.1 mkrf rake xmlparser $ awk

I need to install ruby 1.8.7 on CentOS 5.5 x86_64 system. I am planning to install it from source, but I am not sure whether this will install rdoc, ri and ruby-devel as well. I couldn't figure it out from 'configure --help' command. Appreciate any help regarding this issue. Also, any other installation options or repository suggestions are welcome. thanks, neuby.r