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/etc/fstab mount option restrictions - How to get full options list applied?

This question is a related but tangent question on problem described in this posting . While trying to finalize the options during the previous post, I always left the root partition alone, untouched, ...
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EXT4 on USB - how to specify journalling behaviour to be same as for root disk partitions

Please consider the prior discussion as background to this new question. I have modified my script and applied the same filesystem options to my USB drive's ext4 partitions using tune2fs, and mount ...
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OS seems to apply ext4 filesystem options in arbitrary fashion

I fear I may have to revert to system defaults if I can't get this sorted out. I'm trying to set various system configurations for more robust ext4 for a single-user desktop environment. Trying to ...
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Aliasing grep in find's -exec option

I have these aliases in my ~/.bashrc alias grep='grep --color=auto -H' alias fgrep='fgrep --color=auto -H' alias egrep='egrep --color=auto -H' but they have no effect when I run find ... -exec grep .....
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How to determine the options Linux kernel was build with? [duplicate]

Say, I have custom kernel from my distribution, how could I get list of all options the kernel was build with? It's possible to get them by reading config file from kernel package from vendor's repo, ...
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How to autologin with XDM?

How to autologin a specified user with xdm? I know it's possible with other display managers but I wasn't able to figure out how xdm has to be configured to autologin a certain user. Is it possible? ...
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How to change a firefox option on a quick way (via shortcuts, command line,..)?

In Firefox we have two options at Firefox->Preferences->Preferences->Fonts and colors->Colors menu, Use system colors and Sites can use other colors. I would like keep the first one ...
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Is there a 'rc' configuration file for grep/egrep? (~/.egreprc?)

I usually use grep when developing, and there are some extensions that I always want to exclude (like *.pyc). Is it possible to create a ~/.egreprc or something like that, and add filtering to ...
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