Labeling an exFAT Partition File System

I just formatted an external drive with exFAT file system with the intention to share this drive between Windows/Linux/macOS. When the drive is mounted on my Fedora desktop, it shows as: /dev/sde1 on /run/media/kenno/E17F-B2B1 type exfat ()(rw,nosuid,nodev,relati...) I want to give it a name, so it’ll be mounted as: /run/media/kenno/DRIVE_NAME. On Linux system, we can use a tool called exfatlabel to get or set the exFAT file system. I already created a partition and format it (mkfs....

April 10, 2021 · 1 min · 203 words · kenno

Attaching a Disk to KVM Guest on Command Line

Again, just a quick note to remind myself how to attach a disk to a VM guest from the command line. The following steps is based on these assumptions: A spare disk: an LVM volume name db2_data on data volume group The name/domain of the VM is db2 List the name of the VM guest and available logical volume. [root@mathvm5 ~]# virsh list | grep db2 20 db2 running [root@mathvm5 ~]# lvs | grep db2 db2 vm -wi-ao---- 80....

December 2, 2020 · 1 min · 170 words · kenno