How to deactivate a LVM logical volume activated by #vgchange -aay on Linux
You may need to make a LVM volume group inactive and thus unknown to the kernel.
To deactivate a volume group, use the -a (--activate) argument of the vgchange command.
To deactivates the volume group vg, use this command
# vgchange -a n vg
The Kindle Library Web interface only provide interface to delete items one by one. How to delete multiple items from my Kindle Library? This works on Chrome. First, browse deki.js to find the javascript for the “DeKi: Delete Kindle Items” plugin. Press “Ctrl + A” then “Ctrl + C” to copy all the javascript code….
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I am writing a Bash script accepting input of a path from the user. I want to make the path have no trailing ‘/’, such as ‘/path/to/dir’ instead of ‘/path/to/dir/’. However, as the input is from the user, the input could be ‘/path/to/dir’. My script is intended to handle this. The question is: how to…
Not yet to totally delete the Linux user account, but how to effectively disable a Linux user account? That is, disable a user account while keep all its files/configurations. Later, if it is needed, so that I can enable it again. To effectively disable a Linux user account so that it can’t login using its…
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I like to set the volume of mplayer to 28% of the volume instead of the 100% which is too large for me. And I also want mplayer to put to video window on the left top of the screen. This is the method: Add these lines to the ~/.mplayer/config file: For setting the startup…
I believe “-a” is not an abbreviation of “–available” but of “–activate”
Yes. Fixed. Thanks.