Vaclav Mocek wrote:
> Well, ldd confirms that it is an urban legend.
On my system ldd is in /usr/bin, not /bin
>
> It reminds me, that few months back I observed that Fedora's binaries in
> /bin are much bigger that Slackware's binaries (tens of %), both +- the
> same version. Now, I am wonder
Aaron Konstam wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-04-13 at 13:18 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:
>> Different file systems are optimized for different things. Some of
>> them,
>> for example, do better at holding large sparse files. So, "efficiency"
>> has several possible inte
Aaron Konstam wrote:
>> Some snippage when you reply, PLEASE!
> I don't know what snippage means but efficiency to me means faster
It means "please trim your quotes".
> access to information on the drives. Only one of the things on your list
> of "efficiencies" speaks to that kind of efficiency.
Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> None of the issues mentioned in the wiki page I referred to is specific to
> one distro or the other. This is all just upstream configuration. I am
Yes.
> pretty sure upstream will take patches if anyone is actually willing to do
> the leg work instead of just talking ab
Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> On 04/12/2011 01:35 PM, Mike McCarty wrote:
>
> Of course, the typical response is argue that, this shouldn't be the
> case but that is at this point just wishful thinking.
>
> Not on my machine.
>
> $ egrep 'usb-db|pci-db|FROM_DATABA
Gabriel Ramirez wrote:
[...]
>
> Well, the article points the problems are daemon's fault, but maybe the
> clean design of systemd is too clean
That's not my understanding. The systemd is reporting a fact, that's
all. The cause of any boot problems is the way udev works, I think.
I'm no udev e
Gabriel Ramirez wrote:
> On 04/12/2011 03:05 AM, Mike McCarty wrote:
>> Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>>> Some of the reasons are outlined in
>>>
>>> http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/separate-usr-is-broken
>> Thanks very much for that link. It's v
Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Some of the reasons are outlined in
>
> http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/separate-usr-is-broken
Thanks very much for that link. It's very informative, and reasonably
well written, though with a few forgivable grammatical errors.
> Of course, the typical respon
Tim wrote:
> Michael Cronenworth:
>>> Nope. It has everything to do with booting. Some packages in /bin
>>> depended on libs in /usr/lib{64} so calling the init script
They should not. IMO, boot should depend only upon these directories
being present:
/
/boot
/bin
Tim wrote:
[...]
>
> Umm, you're making us pay for your mess...
If you mean that he is vulnerable to attacks, and then
his machine harbors possibly malicious code w/o his knowledge,
then you are blaming the victim.
Mike
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Opp
Kostas Sfakiotakis wrote:
[...]
> To be honest am not sure what are u talking about ? I was always under the
> impression that pdf is just another form of document , ok with formating
> pictures embedded , or whatever else . I didn´t knew that it actually
> contained
> code that could be execut
Alan Cox wrote:
>> to access my machine at all. I don't run Apache, sshd, or any other
>> server which would allow ingress to my machine. I've never have anyone
>> even attempt to get root access but me.
>
> Most modern attacks are against web browsers so your logic is a bit
> flawed.
Not flawed,
Tim wrote:
>
> I really don't know why people have such grand problems with it. I
> don't. Not even when I run various servers. I strongly suspect it's
> because they're doing daft things with their computer, in the first
> place, then following bad advice to resolve it.
That is certainly a po
Tim wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 04:11 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote:
>
>> Not exactly a login, but sometimes necessary. Booting in single
>> user mode. It's effectively logged in as root, and sometimes
>> necessary for some system maintenance.
>
> Well, it is
Mike McCarty wrote:
[...]
> I can't think of anything that SELinux provides that I want enough
> to load thousands of lines of code concealing defects.
Sorry, misworded that. That should say containing undiscovered
defects.
Additionally, I note that quite a bit of the bandwidth on
Tim wrote:
>
> You're only thinking of problems due to incoming networking connections.
> That's only a small part of the equation.
For me, the entire equation boils down to whether I'm in control
of what gets loaded on my machine, or someone else is. With
Red Hat products, I'm not in control. I
Tim wrote:
> Best advice: Stop it, get out of the habit. I can't really think of
> any occasion where it's truly needed. Yes, I gave an example where I
Not exactly a login, but sometimes necessary. Booting in single
user mode. It's effectively logged in as root, and sometimes
necessary for some
Mike McCarty wrote:
[...]
>
> I'd like to help you clarify your thinking, as well.
>
[...]
Oops! Sorry. That was not intended to go on the list. My
apologies. What I wrote was OT for this list.
Mike
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Kostas Sfakiotakis wrote:
[...]
> Since i started this thread , let me clarify something . All i was
> trying to do was to open a pdf file simple as that and i do believe
> that on my computer am pretty much entitled to do so .
I'd like to help you clarify your thinking, as well.
[...]
> Wel
Jim wrote:
> F14
>
> Every so often I get one of these DAMN Windows Virus testers while
They aren't actually doing anything. Simply set your preference
about downloading always to ask you where to put things. Then, when
it "finds Windows viruses" on your Linux machine, and starts to
download the
Parshwa Murdia wrote:
> Hi,
>
> A very basic thing I would like to ask if KDE is more user friendly
> then GNOME desktop?
It depends upon what you like. I use GNOME, but mostly just to
manage windows. I don't use the file browser, or any of the GUI
stuff from the menus. The only menu items I use
Marko Vojinovic wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 8:43 AM, Mogens Kjaer wrote:
>>> http://www.kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~ooura/pi_fft.html
>>>
>>> You'll need RAM to get many digits.
>> 1.6 G decimals in 20 hours on a machine with 16G RAM, running
>> x86_64 Fedora 12.
>
> Really, I'm curious, is there a
Timothy Murphy wrote:
> A very old (11 years?) but much loved desktop
> has developed a nasty habit of stopping me editing
> because the file, it says, is Read-only.
>
> I suspect this is because the swap partition
> (on an even older SCSI disk) is not functioning.
>
> How does one find which swa
Linuxguy123 wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-06-10 at 23:50 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>> On Thu, 2010-06-10 at 21:22 -0600, Linuxguy123 wrote:
[...]
>> Have you run memcheck?
>
> You mean fsck ? Something runs about every 20 boots and it comes back
> clean. I haven't specifically run fsck.
I th
Linuxguy123 wrote:
[...]
> I've never not been able to get my computer to boot, but sometimes it
> takes 5 tries. Sometimes it works the first time.
>
> I never had any boot problems before it started in January.
>
> I've checked the hard drive. All the SMART data says the drive is fine.
>
Timothy Murphy wrote:
[...]
> Do floppy disks still exist?
Yes, I've got several hundred.
> Are computers with floppy drives still being made?
Yes. Recently I bought one which didn't have a floppy drive,
and I put one in.
> It seems to me that as an absolute minimum
> any documentation mentio
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-06-09 at 00:39 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>> On Tue, 2010-06-08 at 21:55 -0500, Robert Nichols wrote:
[...]
>>> Even after it has extracted everything you
>>> asked for, tar will continue to the end of the archive looking for a
>>> possible later ver
Rick Stevens wrote:
>
> The j option tells tar to use bzip2 instead of gzip. It compresses
> tighter, at a commensurate increase in CPU load.
It compresses _some_ files more than gzip. IME, most files.
It's easy to prove that there is some file which bzip makes
larger than the original, and that
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> Without looking at the source code one can't be sure, but I'd be
> surprised if that were literally true. IOW I doubt that tar decompresses
> everything to a temp file and then searches for the target. It should
I know that it does not, as I've done that sort of thing
Bob Goodwin wrote:
> On 07/06/10 19:21, Mike McCarty wrote:
>> Either you have a broken tar, or you aren't using it right. It's
>> intended to work that way, and has always worked that way.
> Sorry, I misunderstood his response to my question.
No apology needed. I did
Valent Turkovic wrote:
> I managed to install LXDE remix but have only 50MB of free space left :(
> Any suggestions?
A "full distro" is not really appropriate for this machine.
May I suggest DSL, Feather Linux, or Puppy Linux? These
are LiveCD, but can also be installed.
http://www.damnsmalllinux
Bob Goodwin wrote:
Here's how it's supposed to work...
[jmcca...@presario-1 KT-135]$ mkdir check-tar
[jmcca...@presario-1 KT-135]$ cd check-tar
[jmcca...@presario-1 check-tar]$ cp -p ../MVC* .
[jmcca...@presario-1 check-tar]$ ls
MVC-001S.JPG MVC-008S.JPG MVC-012S.JPG MVC-017S.JPG MVC-021S.JP
Bob Goodwin wrote:
> On 07/06/10 18:08, jack craig wrote:
>> it only makes sense, zip deflated the individual files and tar is
>> ignorance of that requirement.
>> hence the untar, then unzip.
>>
>> you might consider
>>
>> $tar czvf /tmp/bob.tar.gz /home/bobg/
>>
>> then each file is compressed b
Bob Goodwin wrote:
> I have /home/bobg/ tar'd to "bobg.tar.gz." Can I extract individual
> files or directories without unzipping the entire 17 gigs?
It depends on how you created the archive, and what you mean
by "unzipping the entire". The usual way to do this with
tar is either to use o
Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote:
> I want to off-load the entire /pub/fedora/linux/releases/13/Everything/
> directory (46,864 items, totalling 59.7 GB) to a modest stack of single-
> or dual-layer DVD-Rs. Is there a multi-DVD spanning archiver capability
> in F13? Ideally I'd like to use an applicati
Well, I had a motherboard toast the built in video interface,
though the machine otherwise seemed to work ok. I pulled out
the discs, and stuck them into a spare box I had lying around,
and pulled the other interesting peripherals, like the CD-ROM
and DVD-ROM drives, etc, and rebooted. After some c
Mike McCarty wrote:
[...]
> Is the problem that your machine's BIOS doesn't know how to boot
> from a CD-ROM? If so, then may I suggest you use Smart Boot Manager?
>
> http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/Smart_Boot_Manager
>
> I've used it for years, and fi
Jim wrote:
> On 05/28/2010 04:20 PM, Mike McCarty wrote:
>> Jim wrote:
>>
>>> How do you setup a floppy in FC 13 fstab.
>>>
>>> I can boot off of a dos disk at startup, but I have a floppy that was
>>> formatted by WinXP Pro and it won't
Jim wrote:
> How do you setup a floppy in FC 13 fstab.
>
> I can boot off of a dos disk at startup, but I have a floppy that was
> formatted by WinXP Pro and it won't boot up or mount -t ntfs-3g
> /dev/floppy /mnt/floppy , ntfs-3g is installed.
>
> I assumed it is a ntfs type file system .
I
Mike Martin wrote:
> On 27 May 2010 19:18, Larry Brower wrote:
>> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
>> Hash: SHA1
>>
>> Tom H wrote:
[...]
>> You may want to try testdisk.
>>
>> http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Download
+1
I tried out testdisk on a disk with no problems a couple
of yea
Timothy Murphy wrote:
> As a matter of interest, is there any way
> of running the Fedora-13 KDE Live CD
> from the ISO file, on a machine without a CD reader?
There are several virtualization packages which can do that, but
it'll be a guest, and not running natively. You'd still have to
boot some
Mike Martin wrote:
> Hi when I was trying (and failing) to get a bootable pen-drive, with
> the F13 live image I accidentally did the following
>
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=512 count=1
>
> which returned nearly immediately and now I have no data on the disk.
Which is a sick feeling. There
Mike McCarty wrote:
[...]
> $ sudo ls -l /var/run/sudo/jmccarty
> total 8
> -rw--- 1 root root 0 May 14 12:47 13
> -rw--- 1 root root 0 Apr 23 03:23 18
> -rw--- 1 root root 0 May 21 16:03 24
> -rw--- 1 root root 0 May 26 15:07 33
> -rw--- 1 root
Rahul Sundaram wrote:
I'd appreciate it if you wouldn't CC me.
> On 05/27/2010 12:57 PM, Mike McCarty wrote:
>> All programs which prompt for, and receive, passwords in clear
>> text form go to extra lengths to make sure that they do NOT
>> "remember&qu
Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> On 05/27/2010 11:47 AM, Mike McCarty wrote:
>> Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>>
>>> IOW it remembers it by logging it. How else would it do it except by
>>> recording it in a file?
>>>
>> I'm not interested i
Ed Greshko wrote:
> On 05/27/2010 01:45 PM, Craig White wrote:
>> On Thu, 2010-05-27 at 13:39 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
>>
>>> On 05/27/2010 01:31 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>>>
On 05/27/2010 10:58 AM, Ed Greshko wrote:
> So, you are the list moderator? And who tr
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 14:48 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:
>>> AFAIK this is a function of 'sudo'. It asks you the first time and
>>> remembers for a few minutes after. I've never seen this behaviour
>> other
>>&g
Mike McCarty wrote:
> Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>> On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 14:39 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
>
> [...]
>
>>> Where is this mythical setting to make it
>>> remember the password?
>> AFAIK this is a function of 'sudo'. It a
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 14:39 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
[...]
>> Where is this mythical setting to make it
>> remember the password?
>
> AFAIK this is a function of 'sudo'. It asks you the first time and
> remembers for a few minutes after. I've never seen this behavio
Rector, David wrote:
> Mike,
>
> Thanks for the tip. I think there may be something here I can use.
>
> However, I am not as familiar with pipes and streams as I would like
> to be.
> Is it possible to use cat so the multiple files will pipe to something
> that my app can open. E.g. my apps don't
Rector, David wrote:
[snip]
> Perhaps there is a utility or wrapper that could trick any regular app
> into thinking that two files were actually one long file?
Yes, there is. It's called "cat".
cat file1 file2 file3 | your_app
Mike
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terry wrote:
> notice there is look in /etc/etc/etc/. or usr/root/where is it or
> some such file. Is there a list that describes where all of this
> knowledge is located to alleviate problems. Unless all distributions are
> identical, 'get a good book on Linux' will not suffice.
Perhap
Jeff Sadino wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I was wondering what everyone's opinion is as to the best command/program to
> use for backups? I don't need to preserve the partition table, basically
> just copy files to a backup hard drive.
I like yackup
Mike
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Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Saturday 15 May 2010, Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
>> You really shouldn't be playing with source RPMs as root. Look in your
>> user RPM sandbox:
>
> Then I'd suggest that doing so as a user be made possible. I think its
It is possible, that's the way I do it. Simply creat
Dave Higton wrote:
> I'd suggest that the assumptions are well out of date and should be
> re-thought. They tend to make the display invisible because it's
> out of the range of some modern monitors. Who uses 640 * 480
> nowadays? Who uses CRT monitors nowadays? (The "safety" issue,
> I believe
Rick Stevens wrote:
>
> After reading all the replies to this thread, I must agree that the
> "-1G" does work as the documents say, but it sure as hell is misleading.
"Misleading" might be a little bit strong. It does describe the
behavior the software exhibits, but it's certainly easy for one
to
Rick Stevens wrote:
>
> You are correct. Doing "-size -1G" on both F11 and F12 return only
> zero-length files. Yep, that's a bug in my book.
It corresponds to my understanding of the info description.
Mike
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Oppose globaliza
Bryn M. Reeves wrote:
[...]
> Different invocation. Your test and the OP used "-size -1G" (which
> _should_ report files less than 1G but apparently reports only 0-byte
> files). The reply above was "-size 1G" which _should_ match files that
> are exactly 1G in size but according to the above doe
Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
>
> When I ran the command as "-size 1G", it returned all the files less
> than 1GB in size (I'm not sure if /etc *has* any files greater than
> 1GB!) So, I agree, its either a bug in the documentation or in find.
> Bugzilla it! Let's hear from the developers.
Ah, I mis
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>
> The number can be prefixed with a `+' or a `-'. A plus sign
> indicates that the test should succeed if the file uses at least N
> units of storage (a common use of this test) and a minus sign
> indicates that the test should succeed if the file
Greg Woods wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-03-23 at 13:56 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote:
>
>> This is perhaps better accomplished by using a separate partition
>> for your data and system. IOW, perhaps you should put /home, and
[...]
> That's not quite as easy as it sounds, becaus
Robin Laing wrote:
> I would like the option to rolling release or upgrade. I say this
> because of my family. My wife is not with the install and I have to
> think of her. My daughter installed F12 herself on a new laptop.
>
> My wife was running FC7 until I re-installed to F12 but moving to
Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 17:48:45 +1030,
> Tim wrote:
>> On Tue, 2010-03-16 at 22:00 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
>>> The normal reply command is not supposed to reply to lists, just the
>>> sender.
>> The normal reply command is supposed to reply to whatever's written i
Ranjan Maitra wrote:
> Dear friends,
>
> This is indeed an interesting topic and I am not completely sure which
> side I am on. Perhaps a hybrid but more on the side of the rolling
> release model after thinking about it for the reasons listed below.
>
> A rolling release has the advantage that
John Austin wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-03-15 at 13:51 -0700, Konstantin Svist wrote:
>> On 03/15/2010 01:33 PM, Antonio Olivares wrote:
>
> I look forward to a clean start every six months
How times have changed. It used to be that *NIX supporters put
the output from uptime in their e-mails, some of w
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 19:24 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote:
[...]
>> However, in a broader context, simply because a driver is closed
>> source and proprietary does not mean that it is of no use to anyone.
>> AIUI, nVidia provides some Linux dri
Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Dennis Mattingly wrote:
>
>> I am trying to upgrade to Fedora 12, but nothing works.
>> No matter what I do, system always boots to my current Fedora 11.
>>
>> I can try Fedora LiveCD, Fedora 12 ISO 1 CD, OpenSuse LiveCD, Fedora 11 CD
>> Nothing works.
>
> Are you saying t
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 18:13 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote:
>> Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>>
>> [...]
>>
>>> It's likely that the disk came with a special driver for Windows,
>>> whereas the Linux version is usi
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 18:13 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote:
>> Clearly it's of _some_ use to _someone_. It just isn't of use to _you_.
>
> No, it's of no use to anyone using a non-Windows system. Isn't that what
> we're
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 18:29 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote:
>> Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>>> I back up all of /etc and /usr/local. Also /opt if it exists.
>> Is /opt really likely to contain some configuration information
>> that a
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>
> I back up all of /etc and /usr/local. Also /opt if it exists.
Is /opt really likely to contain some configuration information
that a reinstall wouldn't set up? ISTM that, if the system
is "modern" enough to use /opt for its install, then its config
would also be in
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
[...]
> It's likely that the disk came with a special driver for Windows,
> whereas the Linux version is using a generic driver. I'd guess the
> answer is probably in the Windows driver code, but of course it will be
> binary and proprietary so it's of no use to anyone.
Stuart McGraw wrote:
[...]
> since the rpm database was still intact, I was able
> to "rpm --verify" all my packages, identify those
> with missing /var files and reinstall just those
> rpms.
Congratulations on your recovery.
> Which leads to my question... Are there certain
> files and dir
Tim wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-03-09 at 20:35 -0800, Antonio Olivares wrote:
>> The rpms are xz compressed but the isos are not. That is what I am
>> asking, or is it too much compression? When is so much too much?
>
> Generally speaking, trying to compress something that's already
> compressed doesn
Patrick Bartek wrote:
> --- On Thu, 3/4/10, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
>
>> I seem to recall that there was a pdftopdf in Fedora 11
>> (from what I
>> recall). Which package provides this in Fedora 12?
>>
>> I tried yum provides */pdftopdf and yum provides */*/pdf
>> and yum
>> provides */bin/pdf and y
Dj YB wrote:
> On Thursday March 4 2010 00:59:03 Mike McCarty wrote:
>> Personally, I think full backups from time to time, stored
>> off site, are a good idea, anyway.
>
> thanks for the advice
My dad taught me "Never turn down an opportunity to state your opinion.&
Mikkel wrote:
> On 03/03/2010 11:45 PM, Mike McCarty wrote:
>> I would use the rescue CD-ROM since it doesn't automatically start
>> an installer, that's why. Almost any LiveCD will do, and the Fedora
>> one would do fine. The install CD-ROM wants to start installi
Paul wrote:
> Mike McCarty wrote:
>> If I wanted to do a custom partition install, I wouldn't run the
>> standard install disc, and then try to "break out" of it somehow,
>> and do something "behind the installer's back", and then resume the
>
Mike McCarty wrote:
> IMO
>
> The way to do what you want is...
Another approach, which sometimes works, is to use a separate
partition for /home, /usr/local, and /opt, and possibly /var,
where you keep all your "non system" stuff, and only make a
full backup of the system pa
Dj YB wrote:
> On Monday March 1 2010 21:32:50 Dj YB wrote:
>> hello,
>> yesterday I have updated kdepim related packages and many things are
>> missing but will be back in future releases, so I wish till that time
>> to revert to my old state.
>> how do I do that?
>> th
Jatin K wrote:
> first of all you have to pass the test ( if I'm not wrong )... then and
> then you only become the _certified _professional is it ???
>
> if you write "I know everything about Linux/Unix "in your CV .. I
> think it will not be considerable
>
> if you wanna write RHCE
Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Wednesday 03 March 2010, Mike McCarty wrote:
[,,,]
>> So, I'm still living with an apparently good disc which is unexplainably
>> slow.
>>
> Modern big disks are apparently formatted for 4096 byte blocks while the
> linux view of a
Jatin K wrote:
> On 03/03/2010 01:17 PM, Mike McCarty wrote:
>> Jatin K wrote:
>>
>>> On 03/03/2010 12:15 PM, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote:
>>>
>>>>> Jatin K :
>>>>> I've facing one problem ( doing partitioning pract
Don Quixote de la Mancha wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 10:17 PM, Tony Nelson
> wrote:
>> Palimpsest is worse than that. It claims a disk that has any
>> *reallocated* sectors is bad.
>
> That's just wrong.
>
> The most one could claim is that a drive with no remapped sectors was
> in some way
Don Quixote de la Mancha wrote:
>"Has Your Data Been Saved?" -- Saint $ilicon
>
> Have You Got Religion? If you didn't have Religion before, I bet you do now!
Everyone in foxholes prays :-)
> Just a week or so ago there was a thread on this list started by
> someone who had a very slow hard
Jatin K wrote:
> On 03/03/2010 12:15 PM, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote:
>>> Jatin K :
>>> I've facing one problem ( doing partitioning practice on 10GB IDE
>>> hard-disk )
>>>
>> I dont understand why is it really a problem.
>>
>>
> *what if you are on RHCE exam .. and question is r
Don Quixote de la Mancha wrote:
> The Chicken and Egg Problem for checksums was solved for the IP header
> checksum, and the TCP payload checksum back during the 1970s.
That's Fletcher's checksum, which is not robust. It's possible to
put a 32 bit checksum into a program which it can use to check
Tim wrote:
>
> It wasn't that chicken-and-egg situation that I was referring to, but
> the long standing issue that the self check has been bad for a very long
> time. If *something* *else* can manage to not read past the end of the
> disc, why can't it?
Ok, I misunderstood what you were referri
Tim wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-03-02 at 20:24 -0500, Andre Robatino wrote:
>> I use the rawread script from
>>
>> http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/coasterless.htm#rawread
>>
>> which automatically reads the correct size of the ISO, and runs a dd
>> command reading exactly that much off the disc.
Temlakos wrote:
> Happily, I substituted "cdrecord" for "wodim" in that command line.
> Forty minutes later, I now have a disk that I have every reason to
> suppose will work as intended. The burn surface looks as though it
> accepted a burn of about 3 GB, and cdrecord returned only one warning
Temlakos wrote:
> I have downloaded this ISO twice, and verified it each time. I have made
> no less than three "coasters" while trying to create a DVD from it. Then
> I moved the ISO to another machine, and another program--which then
> proceeded to tell me that the ISO looked like a CD, not a
Jeff Metcalf wrote:
> wrote:
[...]
> A file system based backup is a good deal safer.
>
> Isn't dump(8) considered a filesystem based backup? Are you refering to
> something more specialized?
Yes, it is. I suspect he meant a files based backup. With
dump, what one gets is a dump of the file
Jeffrey Metcalf wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm hoping I can start a brief thread discussing the potential risks involved
> with backing up live mounted (RW) ext2/3/4 filesystems using dump(8). Here
> are the reasons I ask this:
>
> 1. My understanding is that it is safest to dump unmounted
> filesystem
Don Quixote de la Mancha wrote:
> All of the hard drive vendors provide disk drive diagnostic tools,
> that are able to access vendor-specific - and undocumented - firmware
> in their drives. This diagnostic firmware is able to diagnose drive
> hardware problems in a much more thorough way than th
Paolo Galtieri wrote:
> I have a strange problem that I'm not quite sure what the issue is or how to
> fix it.
It doesn't seem to need fixing.
[...]
> Note I have setup nautilus so that when I open a jar file it runs java -jar
> on that file. This works and the program does execute. However, r
Wendell Nichols wrote:
> My fedora 10 laptop routinely "freezes". That means the menu's and
> applications don't respond to mouse clicks. After a few seconds (or
> sometimes many seconds) it frees up and works normally again. If I look
> at the cpu consumption graph I can see that something h
Mike McCarty wrote:
> My machine has been running slower and slower, and top seems
> to indicate lots of I/O wait. I have two ATA discs on a single
> cable, wired for cable select. The master is much faster than
> the slave, which seems to indicate a hardware, possibly disc,
> p
Don Quixote de la Mancha wrote:
> All of the hard drive vendors provide disk drive diagnostic tools,
> that are able to access vendor-specific - and undocumented - firmware
> in their drives. This diagnostic firmware is able to diagnose drive
> hardware problems in a much more thorough way than th
Alan Cox wrote:
[...]
> You also want to avoid two disks on one cable as the IDE interface only
> allows one of them to be active at a time so its a good way to cripple
> performance.
My previous reply may not have been quite motivational enough.
There is a physical constraint as to where the d
Alan Cox wrote:
>> /dev/hda5 on / type ext3 (rw)
>> /dev/hdb1 on /home type ext3 (rw)
>> /dev/hda3 on /boot type ext3 (rw)
>
> That looks like a truely ancient Fedora ?
Yes.
> You also want to avoid two disks on one cable as the IDE interface only
> allows one of them to be active at a time so i
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