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Google chrome on Fedora 11 Leonidas.

2010-06-24 1 min read Fedora

Earlier I had posted a article on installing <a href="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/2009/07/20/chrome-chromium-on-linux-repo/" target="_blank">chromium on Linux. Chromium is the open source version of the browser which is used by Google to develop its famous browser Chrome. Now chrome rpm is available from google site to install on F11. Here&#8217;s how to do it. First we will add a repo for google. As root user do the following:

cat «EOF >/etc/yum.repos.d/google.repo

[google]
name=Google – i386
baseurl=http://dl.google.com/linux/rpm/stable/i386
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1

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Script to add all the partitions to the fstab.

2010-06-24 5 min read Bash Fedora

I wrote a simple script today to get all the partitions on all the disks and then create <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/fstab" title="Fstab" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fstab">fstab entry with them. The script also gets the <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/universally_unique_identifier" title="Universally Unique Identifier" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universally_Unique_Identifier">UUID and uses the same to make the entry 🙂

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      <span class="co0">#!/bin/bash -</span><br /> <span class="co0">#===============================================================================</span><br /> <span class="co0">#</span><br /> <span class="co0"># &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;FILE: &nbsp;mount_add_all.sh</span><br /> <span class="co0">#</span><br /> <span class="co0"># &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; USAGE: &nbsp;./mount_add_all.sh</span><br /> <span class="co0">#</span><br /> <span class="co0"># &nbsp; DESCRIPTION: &nbsp;Find all the <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/disk_partitioning" title="Disk partitioning" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk_partitioning">disk partitions</a> and all those that are not present</span><br /> <span class="co0"># &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; in the fstab.</span><br /> <span class="co0">#</span><br /> <span class="co0"># &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; OPTIONS: &nbsp;---</span><br /> <span class="co0"># &nbsp;REQUIREMENTS: &nbsp;---</span><br /> <span class="co0"># &nbsp; 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&nbsp;<span class="co0"># ---------- &nbsp;end of function find_disks &nbsp;----------</span><br /> <br /> find_partitions <span class="br0">&#40;</span><span class="br0">&#41;</span><br /> <span class="br0">&#123;</span><br /> <span class="kw3">echo</span> <span class="st0">"In find_partitions"</span><br /> <span class="re2">l</span>=<span class="nu0"></span><br /> <span class="re2">count</span>=<span class="co1">${#disk_types}</span><br /> <span class="kw1">for</span> i <span class="kw1">in</span> $<span class="br0">&#40;</span><span class="kw2">seq</span> <span class="nu0">1</span> <span class="re1">$count</span><span class="br0">&#41;</span><br /> <span class="kw1">do</span><br /> <span class="br0">&#40;</span><span class="br0">&#40;</span><span class="re2">j</span>=i-<span class="nu0">1</span><span class="br0">&#41;</span><span class="br0">&#41;</span><br /> <span class="kw1">for</span> k <span class="kw1">in</span> <span class="co1">${disk_array[$i]}</span><br /> <span class="kw1">do</span><br /> <span class="kw3">echo</span> <span class="re1">$k</span><br /> <span class="sy0"><!</span>--loginview start--<span class="sy0">></span>disk_partitions<span class="br0">&#91;</span><span class="re1">$l</span><span class="br0">&#93;</span>=<span class="sy0">`</span><span class="kw2">fdisk</span> <span class="re5">-l</span> <span class="re1">$k</span> <span class="sy0">|<</span>a <span class="re2">class</span>=<span class="st0">"zem_slink freebase/en/grep"</span> <span class="re2">title</span>=<span class="st0">"Grep"</span> <span class="re2">rel</span>=<span class="st0">"wikipedia"</span> <span class="re2">href</span>=<span class="st0">"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grep"</span><span class="sy0">></span><span class="kw2">grep</span><span class="sy0"></</span>a<span class="sy0">></span> <span class="st0">"^/dev"</span> <span class="sy0">|</span><span class="kw2">grep</span> <span class="re5">-v</span> <span class="st0">"Extended$"</span><span class="sy0">|</span><span class="kw2">cut</span> <span class="re5">-d</span><span class="st0">" "</span> -f1<span class="sy0">`</span><br /> <span class="kw3">echo</span> <span class="co1">${disk_partitions[$l]}</span> <span class="re1">$l</span><span class="sy0"><!</span>--loginview end--<span class="sy0">></span><br /> <span class="br0">&#40;</span><span class="br0">&#40;</span>l++<span class="br0">&#41;</span><span class="br0">&#41;</span><br /> <span class="kw1">done</span><br /> <span class="kw1">done</span><br /> <span class="br0">&#125;</span> &nbsp; &nbsp;<span class="co0"># ---------- &nbsp;end of function find_partitions &nbsp;----------</span><br /> <br /> add_fat <span class="br0">&#40;</span><span class="br0">&#41;</span><br /> <span class="br0">&#123;</span><br /> <span class="kw3">echo</span> <span class="st0">"# Added with script for <span class="es2">$label</span> and <span class="es2">$k</span>"</span> <span class="sy0">>></span> <span class="re1">$file</span><br /> <span class="kw3">echo</span> <span class="st0">"<span class="es2">$uuid</span> /mnt/<span class="es2">$label</span> vfat&nbsp; nosuid,nodev,uhelper=udisks,uid=500,gid=500,shortname=mixed,dmask=0077&nbsp; 0 0"</span> &nbsp;<span class="sy0">>></span> <span class="re1">$file</span><br /> <span class="br0">&#125;</span> &nbsp; &nbsp;<span class="co0"># ---------- &nbsp;end of function add_fat &nbsp;----------</span><br /> <br /> add_<span class="sy0"><</span>a <span class="re2">class</span>=<span class="st0">"zem_slink freebase/en/ext3"</span> <span class="re2">title</span>=<span class="st0">"Ext3"</span> <span class="re2">rel</span>=<span class="st0">"wikipedia"</span> <span class="re2">href</span>=<span class="st0">"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ext3"</span><span class="sy0">></span>ext3<span class="sy0"></</span>a<span class="sy0">></span> <span class="br0">&#40;</span><span class="br0">&#41;</span><br /> <span class="br0">&#123;</span><br /> <span class="kw3">echo</span> <span class="st0">"# Added with script for <span class="es2">$label</span> and <span class="es2">$k</span>"</span> <span class="sy0">>></span> <span class="re1">$file</span><br /> <span class="kw3">echo</span> <span class="st0">"<span class="es2">$uuid</span> /mnt/<span class="es2">$label</span> ext3     defaults     0 0"</span> <span class="sy0">>></span> <span class="re1">$file</span><br /> <br /> <span class="br0">&#125;</span> &nbsp; &nbsp;<span class="co0"># ---------- &nbsp;end of function add_ext3 &nbsp;----------</span><br /> <br /> find_UUID <span class="br0">&#40;</span><span class="br0">&#41;</span><br /> <span class="br0">&#123;</span><br /> <span class="kw3">echo</span> <span class="st0">"In find_UUID with <span class="es2">$l</span>"</span><br /> <span class="br0">&#40;</span><span class="br0">&#40;</span>l--<span class="br0">&#41;</span><span class="br0">&#41;</span><br /> <span class="kw1">for</span> i <span class="kw1">in</span> $<span class="br0">&#40;</span><span class="kw2">seq</span> <span class="nu0"></span> <span class="re1">$l</span><span class="br0">&#41;</span><br /> <span class="kw1">do</span><br /> <span class="kw3">echo</span> <span class="co1">${disk_partitions[$i]}</span><br /> <span class="kw1">for</span> k <span class="kw1">in</span> <span class="co1">${disk_partitions[$i]}</span><br /> <span class="kw1">do</span><br /> <span class="kw3">echo</span> <span class="re1">$k</span><br /> <span class="sy0"><!</span>--loginview start--<span class="sy0">></span><span class="re2">temp</span>=$<span class="br0">&#40;</span>blkid <span class="re1">$k</span><span class="br0">&#41;</span><br /> <span class="re2">label</span>=$<span class="br0">&#40;</span><span class="kw3">echo</span> <span class="re1">$temp</span><span class="sy0">|</span><span class="kw2">grep</span> <span class="st0">"LABEL="</span><span class="sy0">|</span><span class="kw2">sed</span> <span class="co3">\'</span>s<span class="sy0">/</span>.<span class="sy0">*</span><span class="re2">LABEL</span>=<span class="st0">"//\'|sed \'s/"</span>.<span class="sy0">*//</span><span class="co3">\'</span><span class="br0">&#41;</span><br /> <span class="re2">uuid</span>=$<span class="br0">&#40;</span><span class="kw3">echo</span> <span class="re1">$temp</span><span class="sy0">|</span><span class="kw2">grep</span> <span class="st0">"UUID="</span><span class="sy0">|</span><span class="kw2">sed</span> <span class="co3">\'</span>s<span class="sy0">/</span>.<span class="sy0">*</span><span class="re2">UUID</span>=<span class="st0">"//\'|sed \'s/"</span>.<span class="sy0">*//</span><span class="co3">\'</span><span class="br0">&#41;</span><br /> <span class="re2">atype</span>=$<span class="br0">&#40;</span><span class="kw3">echo</span> <span class="re1">$temp</span><span class="sy0">|</span><span class="kw2">grep</span> <span class="st0">"TYPE="</span><span class="sy0">|</span><span class="kw2">sed</span> <span class="co3">\'</span>s<span class="sy0">/</span>.<span class="sy0">*</span><span class="re2">TYPE</span>=<span class="st0">"//\'|sed \'s/"</span>.<span class="sy0">*//</span><span class="co3">\'</span><span class="br0">&#41;</span><span class="sy0"><!</span>--loginview end--<span class="sy0">></span><br /> <span class="kw1">if</span> <span class="br0">&#91;</span> <span class="re1">$atype</span> = <span class="st0">"vfat"</span> <span class="br0">&#93;</span><br /> <span class="kw1">then</span><br /> add_fat <span class="re1">$label</span> <span class="re1">$uuid</span> <span class="re1">$k</span><br /> <span class="kw1">fi</span><br /> <span class="kw1">if</span> <span class="br0">&#91;</span> <span class="re1">$atype</span> = <span class="st0">"ext3"</span> <span class="br0">&#93;</span><br /> <span class="kw1">then</span><br /> add_ext3 <span class="re1">$label</span> <span class="re1">$uuid</span> <span class="re1">$k</span><br /> <span class="kw1">fi</span><br /> <span class="kw3">echo</span> <span class="re1">$label</span> <span class="re1">$uuid</span> <span class="re1">$atype</span><br /> <span class="kw1">done</span><br /> <span class="kw1">done</span><br /> <span class="br0">&#125;</span> &nbsp; &nbsp;<span class="co0"># ---------- &nbsp;end of function find_UUID &nbsp;----------</span><br /> <br /> find_disks<br /> find_partitions<br /> find_UUID
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