I want to figure out list of all devices which are root dependent using shell script.
Root dependent
Could be part of system partition
Could either be LVM which is created on the top of system partitions.
Note:
If a device is detected as root then all its partitions should also be mark a...
What happens when I write cat /proc/cpuinfo. Is that a named pipe (or something else) to the OS which reads the CPU info on the fly and generate that text each time I call it?
You can do logging yourself inside a bash script:
logfile=/var/log/mine/whatever.log
log () {
timestamp=$(date +'%F %T')
echo "$timestamp $1" >> $log
}
log "Started."
[...]
If you are running commands that have output you want to log:
somecommand 2>&1 | log
You can also send mes...
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