Re: [CentOS] Disaster recovery recommendations

2015-10-30 Thread fred roller
Sysrescue cd. If the drives are still viable and you have a spare beater system handy the data rescue should be straight forward. Done it several times. HIH. Fred Roller On Oct 30, 2015 5:30 PM, "Max Pyziur" wrote: > > Greetings, > > I have three drives; they are all S

Re: [CentOS] Need a Centos 6 USB hard drive recovery procedure

2013-05-11 Thread Fred Roller
On 05/09/2013 04:41 PM, Rock wrote: > My 15GB backup USB drive somehow got "corrupted" such that > a "chkdsk /f E:" on WinXP removed the file allocation table > (or whatever) making the NTFS drive appear empty. > > I tried Windows Recuva freeware to recover the files, and > it has been working for

Re: [CentOS] Slightly OT: Samsung Chromebook

2013-05-15 Thread Fred Roller
On 05/15/2013 11:57 AM, SilverTip257 wrote: > On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 6:55 AM, Adam Tauno Williams > wrote: >> On Wed, 2013-05-15 at 11:44 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: >>> I'm thinking of buying a Samsung Chromebook, >>> largely for use while travelling. >>> But I'd like to use it at home linked to

Re: [CentOS] Extreme frustration with GIMP

2017-07-07 Thread fred roller
On Fri, Jul 7, 2017 at 12:42 PM, Alice Wonder wrote: > Does anyone know of an actual GIMP tutorial for removing background Use the intelligent scissors as you did. Right click inside the section and choose copy. Right click anywhere and choose Edit -> Paste As -> As New Image. This should get

[CentOS] OT: Work opportunity.

2017-10-22 Thread fred roller
Saw this and thought some might be interested. Python Dev https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=2ff1a8640400e6d4&q=Chef&l=Puget+Sound,+WA&tk=1bt11n0l1090o3j1&from=ja&alid=59e18304e4b07eabad6b9a79&utm_source=jobseeker_emails&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=job_alerts&rgtk=1bt11n0l1090o3j1 Hope it's not

Re: [CentOS] Transferring Thunderbird mail accounts: Windows vs. Linux

2017-10-26 Thread fred roller
dito, I usually just grabbed the ./thunderbird directory and moved it about regularly. ofc, b/u before movement. On Thu, Oct 26, 2017 at 2:52 PM, Bowie Bailey wrote: > On 10/26/2017 12:57 PM, Nicolas Kovacs wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> One of my clients brought me his PC with Windows 7, so I can migra

Re: [CentOS] Intermittently unresponsive mouse

2017-11-05 Thread fred roller
My mouse lag tends to correspond to low battery or exceeding the 2-3 ft range of wireless (i.e. I kick back on my chair). Assuming it is wireless. Not much info on hw. -- Fred ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/l

Re: [CentOS] How Can I ...

2018-03-24 Thread fred roller
> I've got a WD My Passport Ultra 1TB (USB) plugged into my router... Have you gone to the drive's web interface on your local net? (http://[ip of drive]) It has been my experience that these network storage devices typically come pre-configured for smb/sftp/(and one other i can't remember). Th

Re: [CentOS] formating DVR-RW

2018-04-25 Thread fred roller
[snip] >> I have DVD-RWs. [snip] > I am assuming (and we all know what that means :) ) that the OP has such a disk. [snip] It is not an assumption. OP has Re-Write (RW) disks. (JIC: https://www.google.com/search?q=dvd-rw+definition&oq=dvd-rw&aqs=chrome.1.69i57j0l5.5006j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=U

Re: [CentOS] OT: hardware: sanitizing a dead SSD?

2018-05-08 Thread fred roller
Like the others have mentioned, shredding is the best. Esp. since it is Federal. DoD spec only considers shredded destroyed afaik. SSD or not this was my normal practice for that same reason. HIH. Extreme is smelting the drive to molten but that is extremely sensitive data destruction. Fred __

Re: [CentOS] ligthdm shutdown without a mouse

2018-08-12 Thread fred roller
1st, you should be able to do a power button configuration that will do a graceful shutdown. If necessary there is also the command line option (depends on user) ctrl-alt-t (should bring up a terminal) shutdown -h now (will do a graceful shutdown) make sure the user has permission to do shutdown

Re: [CentOS] odd messages at boot time

2019-02-18 Thread fred roller
On Mon, Feb 18, 2019, 11:24 AM Fred Smith I'm getting these messages during boot: > > error: failure reading sector 0xfc from 'hd4' > error: failure reading sector 0xe0 from 'hd4' > error: failure reading sector 0x0 from 'hd4' > error: failure reading sector 0xfc from 'hd5' > error: failure readin

Re: [CentOS] installing centos 7 32 bit i386 to laptop

2016-07-27 Thread fred roller
On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 8:15 AM, geo.inbox.ignored < geo.inbox.igno...@gmail.com> wrote: > > good morning Johnny. > > On 07/27/2016 05:38 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote: > > On 07/26/2016 11:44 PM, geo wrote: > >> On 07/26/16 22:22, Johnny Hughes wrote: > >> <<>> > >> > >> hello Johnny, > >> > >> glad yo

Re: [CentOS] installing centos 7 32 bit i386 to laptop

2016-07-29 Thread fred roller
| this lt came with oos 7 already installed. after i tricked the oos 7 | partition a few times to reduce size, i repartitioned drive with oos | down to sda1= 1.6 GB system, sda2= 43.0 GB oos 7, sda4= 8.4 GB recovery, | sda3= extended sda5= 1.1 GB boot, sda6= 3.1 GB swap, sda7 thru | sda10= 11 GB li

Re: [CentOS] Centos OS Crash Recovery, Inquiry.

2016-11-02 Thread fred roller
There is software out there which will rebuild. It is advanced level, so I would concur with the others to take it to a professional data recovery service. Most importantly at this moment is to remove the hard drive, or at least shut down the server to minimize the read/write to the disk. The mo

Re: [CentOS] Centos OS Crash Recovery, Inquiry.

2016-11-02 Thread fred roller
On Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 10:51 PM, fred roller wrote: > There is software out there which will rebuild. It is advanced level, so > I would concur with the others to take it to a professional data recovery > service. Most importantly at this moment is to remove the hard drive, or > a

Re: [CentOS] [OT] Network Attached Storage

2017-01-02 Thread fred roller
> > Been thinking about either purchasing one of these or building my own. Personally, given the two options, I would go with DIY. Reasoning is the flexibility of hardware purchase which would allow for better expansion options. When I did mine, sometime ago, I had a mobo w/ 4 sata slots. At th

Re: [CentOS] Reliable way of having both LAN and WIFI on headless box

2017-01-09 Thread fred roller
On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 12:04 PM, Frank Cox wrote: > That sounds like a weak signal from your wifi transmitter. > Or signal interference. Where is the antennae located on the server? Ran into signal issues with antennae which were tucked behind the server before. ___

Re: [CentOS] Question on /usr/bin/import for CentOS 7

2017-01-13 Thread fred roller
On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 3:34 PM, Frank Cox wrote: > -window root Just curious, are you running as root? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Question on /usr/bin/import for CentOS 7

2017-01-13 Thread fred roller
On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 3:45 PM, fred roller wrote: > Just curious, are you running as root? > nvm, head was somewhere else. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Automounting a USB drive

2017-02-12 Thread fred roller
On Sun, Feb 12, 2017 at 10:11 PM, wrote: > If i manually mount it from a terminal, I have read/write access. > Seems a permission issue. su to root after the "auto" mount and take a look. If you can see your file or can write a touch file then your user may not be in the necessary owner/group

Re: [CentOS] imaging a drive with dd

2017-03-02 Thread fred roller
On Thu, Mar 2, 2017 at 8:36 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > dd if=/dev/sdb of=os.img bs=1M count=3210 > I would recommend bs=512 to keep the block sizes the same though not a huge diff just seems to be happier for some reason and add status=progress if you would like to monitor how it is doing. S