Re: Command line for creating partitions

2014-08-07 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 07Aug2014 16:29, Robert Moskowitz wrote: On 08/07/2014 03:13 PM, Joachim Backes wrote: have a look at /sbin/cfdisk OK. One more to study. I was also told about gdisk. But all of these are command menu programs. Not one-liners. The nice 'one-liners' in kckstart files are just commands

Re: Cannot make a copy of video DVD with k3b

2014-08-07 Thread Ed Greshko
On 08/08/14 13:33, Cameron Simpson wrote: > Yeah, I saw that earlier. So I told my mailer to break the thread ("#" in > mutt) and it is all cool. In my mail folder, anyway:-) What, your mailer > can't break/join threads? Of course that is all irrelevant since that doesn't fix the archives. :-)

Re: Cannot make a copy of video DVD with k3b

2014-08-07 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 08Aug2014 12:46, ed greshko wrote: BTW, I kind of hate to continue this thread since I just noticed it has been hijacked from the "cloned sd card is not booting" thread Yeah, I saw that earlier. So I told my mailer to break the thread ("#" in mutt) and it is all cool. In my mail folde

Re: Cannot make a copy of video DVD with k3b

2014-08-07 Thread Ed Greshko
On 08/08/14 12:09, JD wrote: > You cannot copy TO a dvd with dd, cp, mv etc > because writing to optical media requires specialized SW like > cdrecord. That's not 100% true. One could be using a DVD-RAM. :-) :-) [egreshko@meimei ~]$ df /dev/sr0 Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% M

Re: Cannot make a copy of video DVD with k3b

2014-08-07 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 07Aug2014 15:15, ed greshko wrote: On 08/07/14 15:11, antonio montagnani wrote: Joe Zeff ha scritto / said the followingil giorno/on 07/08/2014 08:34: On 08/06/2014 11:31 PM, Doug wrote: This is not an answer, but a question: Is there a bit-by-bit copy program that will copy _anything_

Re: Command line for creating partitions

2014-08-07 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Thu, 7 Aug 2014, Joe Zeff wrote: On 08/07/2014 01:40 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: It was fdisk that was complaining. Those messages aren't complaints, they're just informing you. (I'm not sure any more, but I think that at one time the space between the end of the partition and the cylin

Re: Cannot make a copy of video DVD with k3b

2014-08-07 Thread JD
You cannot copy TO a dvd with dd, cp, mv etc because writing to optical media requires specialized SW like cdrecord. But, you can certainly copy a DVD to HD by the dd command. On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 9:40 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote: > On Thu, 7 Aug 2014, Doug wrote: > >> On 08/07/2014 02:34

Re: Cannot make a copy of video DVD with k3b

2014-08-07 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Thu, 7 Aug 2014, Doug wrote: On 08/07/2014 02:34 AM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 08/06/2014 11:31 PM, Doug wrote: This is not an answer, but a question: Is there a bit-by-bit copy program that will copy _anything_ exactly, including encoding. so that Antonio's last comment becomes moot? You should

Re: seg fault - how to track down cause!

2014-08-07 Thread Jack Craig
yes! use ps *** to get parent pid to follow, then i think the chant is something like, strace -f -p note, a lot of system call info gets dumped, but IMHO, the needle is in that haystack! you might want to log output to a file, ... also, i loved to find a failing clue and then pipe strace -f .

Re: seg fault - how to track down cause!

2014-08-07 Thread bruce
can you run strace on an app that's going to run for 2-3 solid days?? On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 8:41 PM, Jack Craig wrote: > i like strace > > if you dont have it, yum install it. > > using man page, see launching parent pid under strace with follow option. > > in the verbose output, focus on sys

Re: seg fault - how to track down cause!

2014-08-07 Thread Jack Craig
i like strace if you dont have it, yum install it. using man page, see launching parent pid under strace with follow option. in the verbose output, focus on system call activity (& parms) for failing pid procs. HTH, jackc... On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 5:01 PM, bruce wrote: > Hey guys.. > > Ru

seg fault - how to track down cause!

2014-08-07 Thread bruce
Hey guys.. Running a test parent php app that's a long running app. It spins out test child apps via the "system" call periodically. On an intermittent basis, the parent php app dies, and I get a segmentation fault error. Any thoughts/pointers on what I can setup from an OS perspective to allow m

Re: Cannot make a copy of video DVD with k3b

2014-08-07 Thread Doug
On 08/07/2014 02:34 AM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 08/06/2014 11:31 PM, Doug wrote: This is not an answer, but a question: Is there a bit-by-bit copy program that will copy _anything_ exactly, including encoding. so that Antonio's last comment becomes moot? You should be able to do that with dd. You

Re: Command line for creating partitions

2014-08-07 Thread Joe Zeff
On 08/07/2014 01:40 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: It was fdisk that was complaining. Those messages aren't complaints, they're just informing you. (I'm not sure any more, but I think that at one time the space between the end of the partition and the cylinder boundary couldn't be used.) I sus

Re: Command line for creating partitions

2014-08-07 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Chris thanks for this detailed reply! On 08/07/2014 04:14 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: On Aug 7, 2014, at 12:45 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: I am working now more on handcrafting my SD cards for arm testing. Gparted did not do a good job, allowing me to make parititions not on 'cylinder boundaries

Re: Command line for creating partitions

2014-08-07 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 08/07/2014 03:13 PM, Joachim Backes wrote: On 08/07/2014 08:45 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: I am working now more on handcrafting my SD cards for arm testing. Gparted did not do a good job, allowing me to make parititions not on 'cylinder boundaries'. And the labels it created were not recog

Re: Command line for creating partitions

2014-08-07 Thread Chris Murphy
On Aug 7, 2014, at 12:45 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > I am working now more on handcrafting my SD cards for arm testing. Gparted > did not do a good job, allowing me to make parititions not on 'cylinder > boundaries'. FWIW cylinder boundaries are legacy and irrelevant, for either SSDs (inclu

Re: inconsistent wifi at boot time, is it a kernel bug or NWM bug?

2014-08-07 Thread Chris Murphy
On Aug 5, 2014, at 7:11 PM, JD wrote: > On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 6:15 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: >> >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1127022 >> > > One thing I would suggest is to edit > /etc/systemd/system/dbus-org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.service > /etc/systemd/system/multi-user

Re: Cannot make a copy of video DVD with k3b

2014-08-07 Thread Rick Stevens
On 08/07/2014 12:32 PM, Paul Cartwright issued this missive: On 08/07/2014 02:52 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: The fix is to "systemctl mask tmp.mount" and reboot your system. This will leave /tmp pointing at your hard disk. I've done it on all my systems. I tried that... before # df -h Filesystem

Re: Cannot make a copy of video DVD with k3b

2014-08-07 Thread Paul Cartwright
On 08/07/2014 02:52 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: > > The fix is to "systemctl mask tmp.mount" and reboot your system. This > will leave /tmp pointing at your hard disk. I've done it on all my > systems. I tried that... before # df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sdb120

Re: Command line for creating partitions

2014-08-07 Thread Joachim Backes
On 08/07/2014 08:45 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > I am working now more on handcrafting my SD cards for arm testing. > Gparted did not do a good job, allowing me to make parititions not on > 'cylinder boundaries'. And the labels it created were not recognized > when I mounted the drive. I had

Re: Cannot make a copy of video DVD with k3b

2014-08-07 Thread Rick Stevens
On 08/07/2014 12:11 AM, antonio montagnani issued this missive: Joe Zeff ha scritto / said the followingil giorno/on 07/08/2014 08:34: On 08/06/2014 11:31 PM, Doug wrote: This is not an answer, but a question: Is there a bit-by-bit copy program that will copy _anything_ exactly, including e

Command line for creating partitions

2014-08-07 Thread Robert Moskowitz
I am working now more on handcrafting my SD cards for arm testing. Gparted did not do a good job, allowing me to make parititions not on 'cylinder boundaries'. And the labels it created were not recognized when I mounted the drive. I had to use the disk utility to fix the labels. Anyway, to

Re: Cannot make a copy of video DVD with k3b

2014-08-07 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2014-08-06 at 23:34 -0700, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 08/06/2014 11:31 PM, Doug wrote: > > This is not an answer, but a question: Is there a bit-by-bit copy > > program that will copy _anything_ exactly, including encoding. so that > > Antonio's last > > comment becomes moot? > > You should be a

Re: Cannot make a copy of video DVD with k3b

2014-08-07 Thread Ed Greshko
On 08/07/14 15:11, antonio montagnani wrote: > Joe Zeff ha scritto / said the followingil giorno/on 07/08/2014 08:34: >> On 08/06/2014 11:31 PM, Doug wrote: >>> This is not an answer, but a question: Is there a bit-by-bit copy >>> program that will copy _anything_ exactly, including encoding. s

Re: Cannot make a copy of video DVD with k3b

2014-08-07 Thread antonio montagnani
Joe Zeff ha scritto / said the followingil giorno/on 07/08/2014 08:34: On 08/06/2014 11:31 PM, Doug wrote: This is not an answer, but a question: Is there a bit-by-bit copy program that will copy _anything_ exactly, including encoding. so that Antonio's last comment becomes moot? You shoul