linux

Updating a SSD firmware might seem like a big step on linux, as the biggest audience for the ssd manufacturers are windows users. This means that a lot of tooling and documentation is around on the internet explaining on how todo this on a windows based system. In the case of OCZ the tool used to update the firmware is linux based, or at least there is a linux based version available....

Some people already found out the hard way that simply changing the /etc/fstab to make the root filesystem use the journal writeback modus will break the system. The trick to enable this feature is relative simple and involves 1 additional step to editing the /etc/fstab Lets use the below /etc/fstab snippet to illustrate the steps involved /dev/sda5 / defaults 0 0 We change this /etc/fstab snippet to: /dev/sda5 / data=writeback 0 0 And we execute the following command:...