Questions tagged [safety]
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Is it safe to use a loop device to circumvent EBUSY on a block device underlying device-mapper?
I’m trying to include the beginning of a disk block device (the GPT area) read-only in a device-mapper linear mapping. This block device also contains my root filesystem, as such the partition housing ...
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Is it safe to add LVM cache device to existing LVM volume group while filesystem is mounted?
I have an existing LVM volume group with a 10 TB logical volume mounted as an ext4 system which is actively in use. Is it safe to run the command lvconvert --type cache --cachepool storage/lvmcache-...
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How to run software in terminal offline?
I would like to run a flatpak program offline through the terminal (flatpak spoty runs as sudo!). I am looking for a simple command like: "runoffline" flatpak run application. What would be ...
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How to safely remove directory tree in script with path defined by a variable
This is a very basic question, and surely has been asked before, but I am having trouble finding the answer or guidance. There are e.g. these but they don't quite hit the mark: How to safely remove ...
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Is staying in Fedora with a 4 gigs system Safe?
So I recently switched to Fedora Linux, and At least it eats 1.5 gigs of ram after I installed software, it ate 1.7, and I have a 4 gig system, so is it safe? I am referring to Memory
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I am trying to find a spyware agent like "SpyAgent" to monitor users on a Linux system
I am trying to see if I can find a user monitoring system for Linux. Technically I am looking for spyware that I can install on my system so when I let my little nephew use my laptop I know he isn't ...
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How to protect potentially destructive command line options?
I'm curious if anyone can help me with what the best way to protect potentially destructive command line options is for a linux command line application? To give a very hypothetical scenario: imagine ...
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Ensure I am a in specific folder before calling rm [closed]
in my bash script, I have some very danger lines like : rm -r * if it is mis-run in some folder, it would be very disastrous.Basically, I would need to add an if condition to make this does not ...
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