Linux Tips

Disable Auto-Mount

You can temporarily disable automount by doing as root [1]:

$ rcdbus stop

Fast Copy

Using Netcat

When copying a directory that contains a lot of small files (like 1000+ files <1kB), it is faster to actually generate a tarball of the directory and have it unpacked on the fly on the destination server [2]:

Destination$ nc -l -p 2342 | tar -C /target/dir -xzf -
Source$ tar -cz /source/dir | nc Target_Box 2342

Other

See here