The Disk Contains an Unclean File system: Error Mounting Windows 8 Partitions

After succes redisplay bootloader, I found an error message when trying to mount windows 8 partition (ntfs in type); Error mounting /dev/sda3 ... : The disk contains an unclean file system... The NTFS partition is in an unsafe state. Please resume and shutdown Windows fully (no hibernation or fast restarting). Ok, I was a bit confused. I was sure that I've shut it down completelly. I had to do something to fix it.

Based on error messages above, I restarted my laptop, logged in to windows, and shutdown it to ensure I've make a fully shutdown. What I've got was it didn't make any change. The windows partition still was unmounted.

After visiting many sites and forums, finally I found the sollution for this problem. The short explanation's it was caused by a feature in windows 8 called fast startup  (click here for detail information). To fix it, just disable this feature. Login to windows, execute 'powercfg /h off' from command prompt as administrator. Now take a look the result. Is it also welldone to you ?.

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Redisplay Grub: Sistem File Linux LVM

Pada dasarnya, windows agak kurang ramah dalam berbagi bootloader. Jika sistem operasi ini dipasang setelah sistem operasi yang lain maka bisa dipastikan saat start up, bootloader akan "disembunyikan". Oleh karena itu, kita perlu "memanggilnya" kembali.

Pada dokumentasi ini saya menuliskan pengalaman "memanggil" kembali bootloader (dalam hal ini grub). Yang agak berbeda adalah jika selama ini sistem file yang saya temukan bertipe 'Linux' namun kali ini jenisnya adalah 'Linux LVM'. Tahapan berikut sudah saya coba dan alhamdulillah berhasil, namun saya yakin belum tentu bisa diterapkan oleh rekan-rekan yang lain. Oleh karena itu, perbanyak membaca dan terus lah mencoba.

Pertama-tama, siapkan linux live usb lalu jalankan.
Buka terminal dan jalankan sebagai root '$sudo -i'.
Periksa partisi dimana linux dipasang '#fdisk -l' (1).
Ketika mencoba menambatkannya pada direktori '/mnt', ada pesan bahwa sistem file 'LVM2_member' tidak dikenal (2). Rupanya untuk tipe sistem file  ini cara menautkannya agak sedikit berbeda.
Gunakan perintah '#pvs' untuk memeriksa volume fisik disk (3) dan lanjutkan dengan perintah '#lvdisplay /dev/fedora' (4).
Yang akan ditambatkan (mounted) adalah sistem file yang sebenarnya dimana Linux dipasang. Saya dapat langsung menentukan sistem file mana yang akan saya tambatkan karena masih ingat ukuran saat membagi partisinya (root=filesystem=20GB). Oleh karena itu, saya akan me-mount '/dev/fedora/root' pada '/mnt'.

#mount /dev/fedora/root /mnt/
#mount -t proc proc /mnt/proc/
#mount -t sysfs sys /mnt/sys/
#mount -o bind /dev/ /mnt/dev/
#chroot /mnt /bin/bash

Selanjutnya pasang grub ke MBR dengan perintah '#grub-install /dev/sda'.
Sampai tahap ini saya coba me-reboot sistem. Alhamdulillah pada saat start up, grub nya kembali muncul.

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Linux and Printer's Driver Support

I used to visit these sites when printer's driver wasn't read by my Linux OS.
1.  Cannon download center
2.  Cannon Asia and South-East Asia
3.  HP Linux imaging and printing

For distros based on Ubuntu, I should suggest you to visit this site. It allows us to install printer driver by ppa.

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Recomended PDF Viewer

PDF viewer's an important package in a distribution because many e-books takes PDF format. I've ever used X-PDF, adobe reader for linux, and evince as my pdf viewer. From these three, I'd like suggesting you to use evince. Why ?. Because its performance's better than X-PDF (There was lag when scroling it down) and of course its size's smaller than adobe reader for linux. To know about evince complete feature, you should visit its website.

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Formatting Flashdisk via Terminal

There had no option to format flashdisk using mouse right click in fedora.  But don't worry.  We can make it happened from terminal.

• Locate our flashdisk in file system [$ fdisk -l or $ df] (e.q. It took place on /dev/sdd1). 
• Unmount it [# umount /dev/sdd1].
• Now, we can do formatting [# mkfs.vfat -n 'UrFlashDisk_Name' /dev/sdd1].

Done.  It should be applied on others linux  distros. 

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