On 22/05/2018 19:25, Matthew Crews wrote:
On Tuesday, May 22, 2018 6:33:17 AM MST you wrote:
It is possible to encrypt a hard drive at anytime in Debian?
HP Garcia
Yes, using any number of tools, including LUKS.
Is it possible to encrypt your root partition at any time? Not while the
system
Herb Garcia [2018-05-22 06:33:17-07] wrote:
> It is possible to encrypt a hard drive at anytime in Debian?
As others have already told the tool/system is LUKS. If by "anytime" you
mean convert a running system and partition then the answer is no. You
must create a new encrypted partition, open th
On Tuesday, May 22, 2018 6:33:17 AM MST you wrote:
> It is possible to encrypt a hard drive at anytime in Debian?
>
> HP Garcia
Yes, using any number of tools, including LUKS.
Is it possible to encrypt your root partition at any time? Not while the
system is running, as far as I know. If it is,
yes, with luks.
ti 22. toukok. 2018 klo 16.34 Herb Garcia kirjoitti:
> It is possible to encrypt a hard drive at anytime in Debian?
>
> HP Garcia
>
>
On 01/06/2015 01:30 PM, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
Am Dienstag, 6. Januar 2015, 12:21:45 schrieb Jape Person:
Hello, folks!
Please help me save my old Sony VAIO desktop system.
I have two very old Sony VAIO systems, one desktop and one
notebook. They have PATA drives. I run Debian testing (upda
Am Dienstag, 6. Januar 2015, 12:21:45 schrieb Jape Person:
> Hello, folks!
>
> Please help me save my old Sony VAIO desktop system.
>
> I have two very old Sony VAIO systems, one desktop and one
> notebook. They have PATA drives. I run Debian testing (updated
> every day) on them. They've run t
On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 12:33:47PM -0700, Scarletdown wrote:
> On 9/22/2012 12:20 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> >dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/yourdrive bs=1M
>
> But does that remove the partitions themselves? I thought the OP
> was wanting to actually delete the MS partitions, which are used to
> resto
On Sun 23 Sep 2012 at 15:41:06 +0100, Tony van der Hoff wrote:
> On 23/09/12 15:30, Camaleón wrote:
> >
> >> please respond by email only as I do not have reliable email
> >
> > I think you meant "by telephone". If so, you have to be kidding :-)
>
> How did that get changed? The original post
On 23/09/12 15:30, Camaleón wrote:
>
>> please respond by email only as I do not have reliable email
>
> I think you meant "by telephone". If so, you have to be kidding :-)
How did that get changed? The original post most certainly said
"telephone". I had the same thought as Camaleón
--
Tony
On Sat, 22 Sep 2012 14:31:06 -0400, d d wrote:
> I need advice on removal of the microsoft hidden partition and other
> software from a hard drive
> leaving a completely clean hard drive.
You can use your manufacturer's hard drive disk utilities to perform a
low-level format.
> please respond
* d d [120922 18:51]:
> I need advice on removal of the microsoft hidden partition and other
> software from a hard drive
> leaving a completely clean hard drive.
>
> please respond by email only as I do not have reliable email
>
> Dick
> 315+399-6113
It sounds as if your wish is simply to purg
http://dban.sf.net/ ought to help. download iso and burn to dvd or cd and
read up on dban and boot dban disk and dban will clean windows real good.
I think enter at the boot: prompt autostart 5 then go away and let dban do
its work. A 200MB disk if I remember right took 8 hours to clean so
f
On 9/22/2012 12:56 PM, Neal Murphy wrote:
Yes. The command writes zeroes to every block on the drive. Recovering
the data would require dismantling the drive and using specialized
hardware to read the edges of each track (to find residual data). It's
not a cryptographically secure erase, but fo
On Saturday, September 22, 2012 03:33:47 PM Scarletdown wrote:
> On 9/22/2012 12:20 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> > On Sb, 22 sep 12, 14:31:06, d d wrote:
> >> I need advice on removal of the microsoft hidden partition and other
> >> software from a hard drive
> >> leaving a completely clean hard dri
On 9/22/2012 12:20 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
On Sb, 22 sep 12, 14:31:06, d d wrote:
I need advice on removal of the microsoft hidden partition and other
software from a hard drive
leaving a completely clean hard drive.
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/yourdrive bs=1M
But does that remove the partitio
On 9/22/2012 11:31 AM, d d wrote:
I need advice on removal of the microsoft hidden partition and other
software from a hard drive
leaving a completely clean hard drive.
please respond by email only as I do not have reliable email
Since when is GMail not reliable email? Anyway, since you are
On Sb, 22 sep 12, 14:31:06, d d wrote:
> I need advice on removal of the microsoft hidden partition and other
> software from a hard drive
> leaving a completely clean hard drive.
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/yourdrive bs=1M
> please respond by email only as I do not have reliable email
http://www.d
On Tue, 04 Oct 2011, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Is that "-d sat" needed anymore? I think that these days it is always
Sometimes it is. I don't recall where I needed it, but I think it was on a
SATA disk connected to a SAS HBA.
--
"One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> You probably also want to use "-d sat" on all smartctl commands if it is
> an directly attached ATA device (i.e. not USB, and not connected through
> a hardware RAID card).
Is that "-d sat" needed anymore? I think that these days it is always
automatically det
On Tue, 04 Oct 2011, Mark Panen wrote:
> # 1 Extended offlineCompleted: read failure 90% 17291
> 1019262483
Get a new disk, transfer all the important data you still can (or
restore from backups), secure erase, and send it in for replacement if
it is still in warranty.
--
On 4 October 2011 20:00, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Tue, 04 Oct 2011, Mark Panen wrote:
>> I am running "smartctl -t long /dev/xxx" how do i get the output of
>> the log file once it's finished? man page is unclear.
>
> smartctl --xall will tell you everything and then some. If it d
On Tue, 04 Oct 2011, Mark Panen wrote:
> I am running "smartctl -t long /dev/xxx" how do i get the output of
> the log file once it's finished? man page is unclear.
smartctl --xall will tell you everything and then some. If it doesn't
work, use smartctl -a.
You probably also want to use "-d sat
On 4 October 2011 17:55, Camaleón wrote:
> On Tue, 04 Oct 2011 17:44:32 +0200, Mark Panen wrote:
>
>> Hi My 1.5 TB WD HDD has 384 bad sectors according to "fsck.ext4 -cvf
>> /dev/x" Is this bad? Since last year October the HDD has been very slow
>> to browse the folders.
>
> Mmm... hard to tell :-
On Tue, 04 Oct 2011 17:44:32 +0200, Mark Panen wrote:
> Hi My 1.5 TB WD HDD has 384 bad sectors according to "fsck.ext4 -cvf
> /dev/x" Is this bad? Since last year October the HDD has been very slow
> to browse the folders.
Mmm... hard to tell :-?
Run "smartctl" (long test mode) and send the rep
Mark Panen wrote:
>Hi My 1.5 TB WD HDD has 384 bad sectors according to "fsck.ext4 -cvf
>/dev/x" Is this bad? Since last year October the HDD has been very
>slow to browse the folders.
Probably, yes. The output of dmesg and smartctl -a /dev/x would be
helpful. In any case, you should quickly back
On Thu, 15 Sep 2011 13:17:14 +1000, yudi v wrote:
> Got a reply back from WD asking me to return the drive, I wiped the
> drive and tested the drive to see if it will throw up errors.
>
> Again, both the WD tool and the Debian disk utility do not report any
> bad sectors.
>
> Can anyone explain
Got a reply back from WD asking me to return the drive, I wiped the drive
and tested the drive to see if it will throw up errors.
Again, both the WD tool and the Debian disk utility do not report any bad
sectors.
Can anyone explain what's going on?
--
Kind regards,
Yudi
On 11/09/11 23:27, consul tores wrote:
> Adding Slackware test information:
>
> bash-4.1# fdisk -l
>
> Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders, total 976773168 sectors
> Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
> Sector size (logical/physical): 512
On 11/09/11 22:58, consul tores wrote:
> 2011/9/11 Scott Ferguson :
>> On 11/09/11 15:38, consul tores wrote:
>>>
>>> 2011/9/10 yudi v:
>>
>>
-- Kind regards, Yudi
>>>
>>> I think that, it is a problem with Squeeze fdisk+GPT; please try
>>> cfdisk, it seems updated.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
Adding Slackware test information:
bash-4.1# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders, total 976773168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 byte
2011/9/11 Scott Ferguson :
> On 11/09/11 15:38, consul tores wrote:
>>
>> 2011/9/10 yudi v:
>
>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Kind regards,
>>> Yudi
>>
>> I think that, it is a problem with Squeeze fdisk+GPT; please try
>> cfdisk, it seems updated.
>>
>>
>
> Yudi is not using GPT.
Ooops, it should says: Squeeze
On 11/09/11 20:20, Andrew McGlashan wrote:
Scott Ferguson wrote:
Where did you get a version of cfdisk that is installable on normal
Debian system?
Umm, it is on my old lenny box and it is on my new squeeze box. I didn't
do anything special to install it. Most installs that I do are minimal
ba
Scott Ferguson wrote:
Where did you get a version of cfdisk that is installable on normal
Debian system?
Umm, it is on my old lenny box and it is on my new squeeze box. I
didn't do anything special to install it. Most installs that I do are
minimal base installs to start with.
--
Kind Reg
>
> cfdisk and fdisk are both part of (upstream) util-linux-ng[*1], so both
> handle large sectors the same. In Squeeze they are both (currently) at
> 2.17.2-9.
>
> I used gparted-live-0.8.1-3 (debian based with 2.6.38 kernel) to partition
it, I believe util-linux version on this image is 2.19. The
On 11/09/11 15:38, consul tores wrote:
2011/9/10 yudi v:
--
Kind regards,
Yudi
I think that, it is a problem with Squeeze fdisk+GPT; please try
cfdisk, it seems updated.
Yudi is not using GPT.
cfdisk and fdisk are both part of (upstream) util-linux-ng[*1], so both
handle large sectors
On 10/09/11 15:51, consul tores wrote:
2011/9/9 yudi v:
I would simply request for a hard disk replacement,
you will rest more relaxed after that :-)
I will definitely ask for a replacement as it's still under warranty but I
want to make sure it's not a software issue.
--
Kind regards,
Yudi
On 11/09/11 14:09, yudi v wrote:
d-i uses parted (partman).
NOTE: neither fdisk or parted is the cause of your original problem...
This is what I thought. I suspect it's got something to do with the
kernel. I am just using the default Sqeeze kernel 2.6.32-5-686.
I'm unable to advice as
2011/9/10 yudi v :
> d-i uses parted (partman).
>>
>> I know the first release of Squeeze failed to properly align 4K sectors
>> with partitions - but using the udeb from Wheezy fixed that for me - it
>> could be fixed in a previous point release, and, it could be just a DOS
>> partition table issu
d-i uses parted (partman).
> I know the first release of Squeeze failed to properly align 4K sectors
> with partitions - but using the udeb from Wheezy fixed that for me - it
> could be fixed in a previous point release, and, it could be just a DOS
> partition table issue (what I used in that inst
On 10/09/11 18:22, yudi v wrote:
Use GPD instead of DOS partition types, *and* use parted instead of
fdisk.
I used fdisk to partition the disk before installing the OS.
d-i uses parted (partman).
I know the first release of Squeeze failed to properly align 4K sectors
with partitions
> Use GPD instead of DOS partition types, *and* use parted instead of fdisk.
>
I used fdisk to partition the disk before installing the OS. Just to make
sure all the partitions started on the physical sector boundaries. The fdisk
output posted above looks fine, doesn't it? I followed this article
On 10/09/11 16:39, yudi v wrote:
Have you tried # parted -l, fdisk works with cylinders.
here's the parted output:
Model: ATA WDC WD7500BPKT-6 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 750GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B
Partition Table: msdos
Sorry:-
fdisk can't deal with *non-*4096B sectors.
On 10/09/11 16:39, yudi v wrote:
Have you tried # parted -l, fdisk works with cylinders.
here's the parted output:
Model: ATA WDC WD7500BPKT-6 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 750GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B
--
Kind regards,
Yudi
fdisk can't deal with non-4096B sectors.
It
> Have you tried # parted -l, fdisk works with cylinders.
>
here's the parted output:
Model: ATA WDC WD7500BPKT-6 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 750GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B
Partition Table: msdos
Number Start End SizeType File system Flags
1 1049kB 53.7GB 53.
2011/9/9 yudi v :
> I would simply request for a hard disk replacement,
>>
>> you will rest more relaxed after that :-)
>
> I will definitely ask for a replacement as it's still under warranty but I
> want to make sure it's not a software issue.
> --
> Kind regards,
> Yudi
Have you tried # parted
>
> I would just return-back the unit. It is clearly new (less than 400 hours
> of use!) and should not throw any error nor message about its SMART
> health. This does not have to mean a bad drive per se, of course, but
> better safe than sorry. If a new unit still fails, I would recheck the
> cabl
On Sat, 10 Sep 2011 00:47:58 +1000, yudi v wrote:
> smartctl -a /dev/sda output
> Device Model: WDC WD7500BPKT-60PK4T0
(...)
Fiuu!... it's a WD :-P
> Error 669 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 312 hours (13 days + 0
> hours)
> When the command that caused the error occurred, the devi
smartctl -a /dev/sda output
smartctl 5.40 2010-07-12 r3124 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-10 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net
=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Device Model: WDC WD7500BPKT-60PK4T0
Serial Number:WD-WX31E1177192
Firmware Version:
I would simply request for a hard disk replacement,
> you will rest more relaxed after that :-)
>
I will definitely ask for a replacement as it's still under warranty but I
want to make sure it's not a software issue.
--
Kind regards,
Yudi
On Fri, 09 Sep 2011 22:50:39 +1000, yudi v wrote:
> Disk utility tells that there are bad sectors on the new hard drive.
"New" driver with bad sectors?
What is the output of "smartctl -a /dev/sda"
> I had the same issue before and I was about to send it back to get it
> replaced. I wrote rand
On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 02:28:26PM +0200, Andrej Kacian wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Jun 2011 16:28:32 -0700
> Freeman wrote:
>
> >The disadvantage is wasted space, since each partition has some expansion
> >room that equals lost contiguous bulk space. (Reading up on LVM's is on my
> >todo list.)
>
>
On Fri, 10 Jun 2011 16:28:32 -0700
Freeman wrote:
>The disadvantage is wasted space, since each partition has some expansion
>room that equals lost contiguous bulk space. (Reading up on LVM's is on my
>todo list.)
You really should, there's no reason not to use LVM, especially for wacky
setup
On Sat, 2011-06-11 at 04:50 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 06/11/2011 04:22 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> [snip]
> >
> > I don't like to insert a CD either :).
> >
>
> I can't tell if you're telling a joke or being eccentric.
Both :), kidding here.
--
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@
On 06/11/2011 04:22 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
[snip]
I don't like to insert a CD either :).
I can't tell if you're telling a joke or being eccentric.
--
"Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure
the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally
corrupt.
On Sat, 2011-06-11 at 04:17 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
> On 6/10/2011 2:11 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> > On Fri, 2011-06-10 at 21:49 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> >> for single user or
> >>
> >> /
> >> /home
> >> /media/big -> /home/$user1/big
> >> /media/big -> /home/$user2/big
> >
> > For a sing
On 6/10/2011 2:11 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-06-10 at 21:49 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
>> for single user or
>>
>> /
>> /home
>> /media/big -> /home/$user1/big
>> /media/big -> /home/$user2/big
>
> For a single user I switched from / + /home to / only.
> For special tasks I add e.g.
On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 09:23:08AM -0700, prad wrote:
> in the past we've had two partitions:
> /
> /data
> into the latter went home, www, mail and we'd softlink from the
> appropriate places. the nice thing about this setup has always been that
> when we upgraded or tried a different system there
On Sat, 2011-06-11 at 00:54 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> On Vi, 10 iun 11, 21:11:49, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> >
> > The advantage to have / only, including /home is, that you don't need
> > think that much about allocation of free space. You anyway can do
> > separated backups. And having tons of
On Vi, 10 iun 11, 21:11:49, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>
> The advantage to have / only, including /home is, that you don't need
> think that much about allocation of free space. You anyway can do
> separated backups. And having tons of individual mounted directories
> won't speed up anything or won't ha
On Fri, 2011-06-10 at 21:49 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> for single user or
>
> /
> /home
> /media/big -> /home/$user1/big
> /media/big -> /home/$user2/big
For a single user I switched from / + /home to / only.
For special tasks I add e.g. /music_productions to /mnt or /home.
The advantage to
On Lu, 06 iun 11, 09:23:08, prad wrote:
> in the past we've had two partitions:
> /
> /data
> into the latter went home, www, mail and we'd softlink from the
> appropriate places. the nice thing about this setup has always been that
> when we upgraded or tried a different system there wasn't any da
On 06/06/2011 11:23 AM, prad wrote:
in the past we've had two partitions:
/
/data
into the latter went home, www, mail and we'd softlink from the
appropriate places. the nice thing about this setup has always been that
when we upgraded or tried a different system there wasn't any data
copying to
* prad [2011-06-06 09:23:08 -0700]:
> in the past we've had two partitions:
> /
> /data
> into the latter went home, www, mail and we'd softlink from the
> appropriate places. the nice thing about this setup has always been that
> when we upgraded or tried a different system there wasn't any data
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 08:56:51AM +0200, Neil wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 6:01 AM, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 04:26:17PM -0400, Celejar wrote:
> >> On Thu, 16 Oct 2008 13:46:30 -0400
> >> "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> > On Thu,
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 6:01 AM, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 04:26:17PM -0400, Celejar wrote:
>> On Thu, 16 Oct 2008 13:46:30 -0400
>> "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> > On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 12:35:17PM -0400, Celejar wrote:
>
>> I underst
On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 04:26:17PM -0400, Celejar wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Oct 2008 13:46:30 -0400
> "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 12:35:17PM -0400, Celejar wrote:
> I understand that I don't need much processing power; that's why I was
> thinking of an embe
On Thu, 16 Oct 2008 13:46:30 -0400
"Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 12:35:17PM -0400, Celejar wrote:
...
> > But IIUC, the power draw, especially of an old and probably energy
> > inefficient computer, is much higher than that of a dedicated external
> > di
On Thu, 16 Oct 2008, Sam Leon wrote:
>>> Hmm, sounded like a good idea but with the drive unmounted and spun
>>> down, it still spins up right before a shut down or a reboot. :(
>>
>> Hmmm, very puzzling. I'd ask lkml.
Not puzziling at all. Most HDs have utter crap inside that is too dumb to
f
On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 12:35:17PM -0400, Celejar wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Oct 2008 20:33:11 -0400
> "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Or, the cheapest external multi-drive enclosure I've found is called
> > someone's old computer. Turn it on when you want to do a backup, backup
> >
On Wed, 15 Oct 2008 20:33:11 -0400
"Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
...
> Or, the cheapest external multi-drive enclosure I've found is called
> someone's old computer. Turn it on when you want to do a backup, backup
> over rsync or NFS, and turn it off. If it does wake-on-lan you
Ron Johnson wrote:
On 10/15/08 19:16, Sam Leon wrote:
Ron Johnson wrote:
On 10/14/08 12:12, Sam Leon wrote:
I have added a large drive to my desktop for back up purposes. I am
using rsnapshot to backup just a couple of times a week. Since the
drive will be rarely accessed I added:
/dev/sd
On 10/15/08 19:16, Sam Leon wrote:
Ron Johnson wrote:
On 10/14/08 12:12, Sam Leon wrote:
I have added a large drive to my desktop for back up purposes. I am
using rsnapshot to backup just a couple of times a week. Since the
drive will be rarely accessed I added:
/dev/sdb {
spindown_time =
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 07:16:33PM -0500, Sam Leon wrote:
> Ron Johnson wrote:
> >On 10/14/08 12:12, Sam Leon wrote:
> Hmm, sounded like a good idea but with the drive unmounted and spun
> down, it still spins up right before a shut down or a reboot. :(
Over the years I've tried to sort this ou
Ron Johnson wrote:
On 10/14/08 12:12, Sam Leon wrote:
I have added a large drive to my desktop for back up purposes. I am
using rsnapshot to backup just a couple of times a week. Since the
drive will be rarely accessed I added:
/dev/sdb {
spindown_time = 180
}
To hdparm.conf to spin down t
Sam Leon wrote:
> Does the hard drive have to spin up in order to flush a buffer or
> something before shut down? Any way to get around this?
Unmount the volume when not in use. Unmounted volumes do not need to
spin up during shutdown.
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On 10/14/08 14:41, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[snip]
Ron is correct (as usual); there are lots of housekeeping that must
Just on the easy stuff. Debian does so much for us, and daemons
like Postfix are so stable, with simple-to-read text files that they
can run unattended for years, leading to
>
>
>
> Original Message
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>Subject: Re: Hard Drive Spin Down
>Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 12:25:58 -0500
>
>>On 10/14/08 12:12, Sam Leon wrote:
>>> I have added a large drive to my deskt
On 10/14/08 12:12, Sam Leon wrote:
I have added a large drive to my desktop for back up purposes. I am
using rsnapshot to backup just a couple of times a week. Since the
drive will be rarely accessed I added:
/dev/sdb {
spindown_time = 180
}
To hdparm.conf to spin down the disk after 15 min
Adam Hardy on 07/08/08 10:25, wrote:
Adam Hardy on 06/08/08 01:26, wrote:
Brian McKee on 06/08/08 00:30, wrote:
On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 7:04 PM, Adam Hardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Forsaken on 05/08/08 19:25, wrote:
On Aug 5, 2008, at 10:51 AM, Adam Hardy wrote:
I just took the hard drives f
Adam Hardy on 06/08/08 01:26, wrote:
Brian McKee on 06/08/08 00:30, wrote:
On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 7:04 PM, Adam Hardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Forsaken on 05/08/08 19:25, wrote:
On Aug 5, 2008, at 10:51 AM, Adam Hardy wrote:
I just took the hard drives from one machine and installed them int
Brian McKee on 06/08/08 00:30, wrote:
On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 7:04 PM, Adam Hardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Forsaken on 05/08/08 19:25, wrote:
On Aug 5, 2008, at 10:51 AM, Adam Hardy wrote:
I just took the hard drives from one machine and installed them into
another with a similar 500MHz CPU a
On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 05:53:05PM +0100, Adam Hardy wrote:
> Andrei Popescu on 05/08/08 17:22, wrote:
>
>> How old is that mobo anyway? 750 GB might be just a bit too much for it.
>
> Argh! Well, I don't really know anymore - probably 1998. So 10 years, +/-
> 2 years. But then, the other mobo was
On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 7:04 PM, Adam Hardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Forsaken on 05/08/08 19:25, wrote:
>>
>> On Aug 5, 2008, at 10:51 AM, Adam Hardy wrote:
>>>
>>> I just took the hard drives from one machine and installed them into
>>> another with a similar 500MHz CPU and mobo, but it hasn't
Forsaken on 05/08/08 19:25, wrote:
On Aug 5, 2008, at 10:51 AM, Adam Hardy wrote:
I just took the hard drives from one machine and installed them into
another with a similar 500MHz CPU and mobo, but it hasn't worked out
smoothly.
fsck.ext3: no such file or directory while trying to read /dev/h
On Tue,05.Aug.08, 17:53:05, Adam Hardy wrote:
> Andrei Popescu on 05/08/08 17:22, wrote:
>> On Tue,05.Aug.08, 15:51:44, Adam Hardy wrote:
>>> I just took the hard drives from one machine and installed them into
>>> another with a similar 500MHz CPU and mobo, but it hasn't worked out
>>> smoothly.
Andrei Popescu on 05/08/08 17:22, wrote:
On Tue,05.Aug.08, 15:51:44, Adam Hardy wrote:
I just took the hard drives from one machine and installed them into
another with a similar 500MHz CPU and mobo, but it hasn't worked out
smoothly.
The first drive is 40Gb and seems fine, but the second, a
On Tue,05.Aug.08, 15:51:44, Adam Hardy wrote:
> I just took the hard drives from one machine and installed them into
> another with a similar 500MHz CPU and mobo, but it hasn't worked out
> smoothly.
>
> The first drive is 40Gb and seems fine, but the second, a 750Gb drive, has
> a partition tha
Thomas H. George wrote:
After cpu failure and replacement Debian Lenny system bootup fails with
a message:
/bin/cat: /sys/block/hdb/hdb1/dev No such file or directory
This is repeated several times and then again for hdb5. Finally kernel
panic.
I have run Western Digital's extended tes
On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 10:17:23AM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 06:08:47PM +1000, Alex Samad wrote:
> > On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 09:33:19PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> > > On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 07:10:34AM +1000, Alex Samad wrote:
> > > >
> >
> > [snip]
> >
> > >
On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 06:08:47PM +1000, Alex Samad wrote:
> On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 09:33:19PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> > On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 07:10:34AM +1000, Alex Samad wrote:
> > >
>
> [snip]
>
> > > ?(if so how)
> >
> > First, ensure you have good recent backups.
> >
> > Then
On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 09:33:19PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 07:10:34AM +1000, Alex Samad wrote:
> >
[snip]
> > ?(if so how)
>
> First, ensure you have good recent backups.
>
> Then install smartmontools and run a long S.M.A.R.T. test and check the
> results.
>
On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 07:10:34AM +1000, Alex Samad wrote:
>
> May 5 23:31:46 hufpuf kernel: ata2: timeout waiting for ADMA IDLE,
> stat=0x440
> May 5 23:31:46 hufpuf kernel: ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct
> 0x7fff SErr 0x0 action 0x0
> May 5 23:31:46 hufpuf kernel: ata2.00: CPB resp_fl
Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> what kernel are you running? the power management seems to be kind of
> borked in 2.6.24 and requires some hacking to get it to funciton
> reasonably.
>
2.6.23-9
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On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 07:22:22PM +0100, Andrew Henry wrote:
> I run Lenny on an Acer Aspire 5021WLMi laptop as an ssh server and I
> noticed that the hard drive is getting very very hot so that the
> touchpad is almost burning hot. I suspect that the drive is not
> spinning down when idle (and i
Paul Cartwright wrote:
Well, if the fans are working on the laptop
it should never get burning
hot. There's no reason why a laptop can't run with its drive spinning
all the time (unless its on battery and you want to save the battery).
I would like it to spin down not just to s
On Mon February 4 2008, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> > I run Lenny on an Acer Aspire 5021WLMi laptop as an ssh server and I
> > noticed that the hard drive is getting very very hot so that the
> > touchpad is almost burning hot. I suspect that the drive is not
> > spinning down when idle (and it's ba
On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 07:22:22PM +0100, Andrew Henry wrote:
> I run Lenny on an Acer Aspire 5021WLMi laptop as an ssh server and I
> noticed that the hard drive is getting very very hot so that the
> touchpad is almost burning hot. I suspect that the drive is not
> spinning down when idle (and i
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 07:39:33AM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote:
> I call my computer Phoenix because it has gone through a massive
> upgrade. It had 1 GHz cpu, a motherboard with problems and two hard
> drives - hda with windoz for a couple of trivial apps and Debian testing
> for all the real wo
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 10:42:11PM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 04:21:18PM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote:
> > I built a new computer with two hard drives and installed XP Home
> > Edition on the first drive. The second drive contains my Debian system
> > - kernel 2.6.1
On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 04:21:18PM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote:
> I built a new computer with two hard drives and installed XP Home
> Edition on the first drive. The second drive contains my Debian system
> - kernel 2.6.17 and Testing. I intended to use disc 1 of a Sarge
> installation set a
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