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2. Shell Programming and Scripting

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3. Filesystems, Disks and Memory

Ask concept soft partition vs hard partition

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4. Filesystems, Disks and Memory

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5. Solaris

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6. Shell Programming and Scripting

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7. Red Hat

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8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I've created a partition with GNU Parted, how do I mount the partition?

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9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

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10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

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