I'm trying to use DVD-RW ("minus RW") disks in my LG GSA-4040B
drive. I can write a new disk just fine, but can't find any way to
blank or re-use a disk. When I run xcdroast and click on the "Blank
CD/DVD+-RW" button, I get "Error while blanking." Here is last part
of the dialog:
Using gen
Barry Brimer wrote:
I'm trying to use DVD-RW ("minus RW") disks in my LG GSA-4040B
drive. I can write a new disk just fine, but can't find any way to
blank or re-use a disk. When I run xcdroast and click on the "Blank
CD/DVD+-RW" button, I get "Error while blanking." Here is last part
of the d
Alex White wrote:
On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 14:25:27 -0500
Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> took out a #2 pencil
and scribbled:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ alias foo=bar
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ foo
bash: bar: command not found
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ "foo"
bash: foo: command not found
[EMAIL PROTECTE
nate wrote:
David G. Miller wrote:
I don't see anything incriminating in dmesg, /var/log/messages or
/var/log/Xorg.0.log. I'll switch the system to boot to runlevel 3 so I
can see if X is spewing something to the first alternate console that
isn't getting written to the log file. Anyone have
MHR wrote:
On Feb 1, 2008 6:54 PM, Robert Nichols <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
And, see what "xset q" has to say about whether DPMS is currently
enabled or not. I've noticed that mplayer disables DPMS on entry,
but neglects to re-enable it on termination.
Interesting
Benjamin Smith wrote:
It's obviously getting slipped on on the "-b". Tried again:
$ cat script3.sh
#! /bin/bash
for file in $*
do
ls -l -- "$file";
done
$ /bin/bash ./script3.sh *
-rw-r--r-- 1 bens nobody 5 2008-02-26 12:14 -b
ls: cannot access Disney: No such file or d
Whenever tcpdump fills a savefile to capacity (-C option) and tries to open
a new one, I get the following AVC denial:
kernel: audit(1204485464.409:106): avc: denied { search } for
pid=2702 comm="tcpdump" name="/" dev=hdb1 ino=2
scontext=system_u:system_r:netutils_t:s0 t
context=system_u:objec
Karanbir Singh wrote:
Bernd Bartmann wrote:
Hi,
the latest Centos 5 krb5 1.6.1-17.el5_1.1 do not get applied to any of
my servers. I can see the updates being available on the mirror
servers, but "yum update" shows nothing. The krb5 updates for Centos 4
were installed on all of my Centos 4 serv
Morten Nilsen wrote:
- Why does the screen flicker on and off several times during boot and
when logging in?
In the kernel distributed with RHEL5 / CentOS 5.0, a driver was accidentally
omitted (CONFIG_FB_VESA). This makes the text mode display wonky on some
common hardware. IIRC, this was
Morten Nilsen wrote:
Robert Nichols wrote:
If you installed 5.0, you're missing a LOT of updates. The normal update
mechanism should bring your machine up to 5.1 unless you've taken action
to lock it to the 5.0 release.
When I installed this box, 5.1 wasn't out yet..
And, no
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've a new CentOS 5 minimalist install; this will be the name server
from my prior thread. I have configured eth0 during setup with the
static IP the unit will have when in production. During this setup
phase, selinux is set to permissive.
Setting up on a different
Robert Moskowitz wrote:
I had at one point copied a large number of files between drives and did
not use the -p and thus the timestamps were all set to the date of the
copy.
I did not catch this, and deleted the source. So I 'lived' with it and
have since changed many files.
Well, yesterda
Stephen Harris wrote:
On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 06:27:20PM -0500, Robert Nichols wrote:
for F in *
do cmp "$F" "/new/directory/$F" && touch -r "$F" "/new/directory/$F"
done
That will compare all the files and adjust the timestamp on t
chitgoks wrote:
hi , our centos os has an ext3 file system. and i cant create any more
directories, it gives me a too many links error, even when doing a manual
mkdir.
is there any workaround for this? without changing it to a different file
system like reiserFS? we dont have a reiserfs module i
Ugo Bellavance wrote:
Evans F. Mitchell KD4EFM / AFA2TH / WQFK-894 wrote:
WARNING: Kernel Errors Present
end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector ...: 2 Time(s)
You tried to read or write to a floppy and it kind of failed...
I see that error being logged every time a new kernel is inst
Hiep Nguyen wrote:
hi list, is there a command to find out the date & time that centos
installed?
thanks
T. Hiep
$ rpm -qi centos-release
Name : centos-release Relocations: (not relocatable)
Version : 5 Vendor: CentOS
Release : 0.0.el5.
Scott Ehrlich wrote:
On Fri, 15 Jun 2007, Jim Perrin wrote:
rpm -qi centos-release showed dates well beyond when I knew I installed
the system.
Probably because you "installed" Centos 4.4 as an upgrade. The install
timestamp for centos-release would be the time of the upgrade, not the
time o
On 01/26/2011 04:31 AM, James Bensley wrote:
> On 26 January 2011 10:17, Rafa Griman wrote:
>> Directories should have +x permissions. Do a:
>>
>> chmod0750/directory
>>
>> And see what happens.
>>
>
> Hi Rafa, like a fool I sent that email and then worked this out
> shortly after :)
>
> S
On 01/27/2011 01:39 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
> Also, there's a stack of reasons that DSA is preferred to RSA for SSH
> keys these days. When you generate your private keys, use "ssh-keygen
> -t dsa", not rsa.
Care to elaborate on that? Searching, I find mostly a "stack of reasons"
for prefer
On 01/31/2011 01:32 PM, Cameron Kerr wrote:
> On 1/02/2011, at 7:19 AM, Paul Heinlein wrote:
>
> Lots of good advice snipped
>
>> 12. Tell your users emphatically that they should use $HOME anywhere
>> they're tempted to hardwire their home directory path into a
>> script. :-)
>
> Althou
On 03/07/2011 08:21 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
>
> That said, it can be problematic when you "ping $HOSTNAME" and get a
> valid 127.0.0.1 response, and haven't actually tested your external
> port. It also requires thought for configuring SSH and SNMP and NFS to
> allow localhost access.
When yo
On 04/05/2011 08:47 AM, Mister IT Guru wrote:
>
> "What the hell is so special about CentOS 6?"
For me, that would be kernel version 2.6.32. I have hardware and
software that needs a kernel a lot newer than the 2.6.18 kernel in
CentOS 5.6. I would dearly love to get off the Fedora roller coaster
On 04/11/2011 05:53 AM, Tom Brown wrote:
>>> I'm hazarding a guess here - that the os/{i386,x86_64}/CentOS/*.rpm's that
>>> have 'centos' in the name have had changes made for CentOS. The others
>>> have not and the sources are available from upstream at eg
>>>
>>> http://mirrors.kernel.org/redhat/
On 04/11/2011 11:04 AM, Brunner, Brian T. wrote:
> centos-boun...@centos.org wrote:
>> Just tried running a configuration on 5.6 with ext4 as the "/"
>> partitition. I got the error that cannot boot ext4 partition.
>> bummer I know this is just a boot issue and make the ext3 but I
>> was disapp
On 04/24/2011 01:15 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> I don't actually think my motives are relevant.
> In case I didn't described the situation clearly,
> my CentOS server is connected to an ADSL modem by ethernet (eth0).
> The modem's IP address is 192.168.1.254 .
>
> I have a second NIC on my server (
On 04/26/2011 10:19 AM, mattias wrote:
> Can anyone see any errors in this scripts
> Iptables says
> Invalid target
> iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE
> iptables -A FORWARD -i eth0 -o virbr0 -m state --state RELATED,ESTABLISHED
> -j ACCEPT
> iptables -A FORWARD -i virbr0 -o eth0
On 04/26/2011 06:56 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> James Pearson wrote:
>
Could it be that the partition table has become corrupt (e.g.
overwritten)?
>>>
>>> But everything seems to be working perfectly;
>>> is that possible if the partition table is corrupt?
>>
>> Yes - the partition table
On 04/27/2011 07:26 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> James Pearson wrote:
>
>>> Is there a safe way of recovering the partition table?
>>> I have a vague idea that copies are kept at various places on the disk?
>>
>> AFAIK, there is only one copy at the start of the disk - however what
>> does /proc/par
On 04/27/2011 08:56 AM, Reynolds McClatchey wrote:
> I use inn to make internal company announcements and
> discussions available to remote offices.
> I note inn is removed form RHEL 6. What replaces inn?
>
> http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Technical_Notes/apc.
On 04/27/2011 01:15 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 10:18:28AM -0500, Robert Nichols wrote:
>> It would make life so much easier if fdisk would simply accept those same
>> numbers as Kilobytes, but alas it keeps trying to round up to the next
>> "
On 04/27/2011 07:08 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Robert Nichols wrote:
>
>>> sfdisk has "dump" mode, and it can also import old dump to new disk.
>>
>> That dump mode doesn't help if the partition table is currently munged,
>> and sfdisk is extra
On 04/28/2011 04:06 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Robert Nichols wrote:
>
>> Actually, if it were my drive I would just re-create the 4 primary
>> partitions using whatever tool was handy, but giving that extended
>> partition a "normal" type instead. Once I had
On 5/28/20 1:33 PM, James B. Byrne via CentOS wrote:
/dev/mapper/vg_voinet01-lv_log
The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2
filesystem. If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2 filesystem
(and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock is cor
On 9/26/20 12:40 PM, Jerry Geis wrote:
Hello
I did try the "dd conv=noerror …"
The ddrescue - doesnt stop - it just doesnt "continue" past a certain
point. Somewhere around the 117G mark - it just doesnt go past that .
(same with dd, gets to 117G and just doesnt continue.
I have let the dd run a
With Firefox updated to firefox-78.3.0-1.el6.centos.x86_64, I cannot get sound
from Firefox. I've tried restarting pulseaudio, also logging out and logging
back in. No help. Other A/V apps work just fine. Downgrading to
firefox-68.12.0-1.el6.centos.x86_64 makes sound work again. For now, I've
On 9/30/20 8:25 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote:
On 9/29/20 9:16 PM, Robert Nichols wrote:
With Firefox updated to firefox-78.3.0-1.el6.centos.x86_64, I cannot get
sound from Firefox. I've tried restarting pulseaudio, also logging out
and logging back in. No help. Other A/V apps work just
On 10/1/20 3:24 PM, Jonathan Billings wrote:
On Thu, Oct 01, 2020 at 04:01:29PM -0400, mailist wrote:
The Ubuntu-derived distros are much better suited to desktop. I run several
of them, as well as
CentOS 7 and 8. Ubuntu, Kubuntu (Ubuntu with KDE), Lubuntu, Debian, PopOS,
and Zorin.
They all
On 10/17/20 3:38 PM, Robert Heller wrote:
I did a yum update on my CentOS 6 laptop and it upgraded Firefox to 78, and
FF stopped seeing my mic and speakers. Is there some magic I need to do? As
a short term (?) fix, I downgraded back to Firefox 68. My system is otherwise
up-to-date.
I'm seei
On 10/20/20 2:45 PM, Robert Heller wrote:
At Tue, 20 Oct 2020 13:35:59 -0400 CentOS mailing list
wrote:
Jonathan Billings wrote:
I'm less concerned with firefox being broken on 32-bit CentOS 6
systems when the platform is only going to live for another month.
Frankly, I'm glad to se
In CentOS 8, is there an equivalent for the gnote application?
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On 12/24/20 12:41 PM, Frank Cox wrote:
On Thu, 24 Dec 2020 11:04:26 -0600
Robert Nichols wrote:
In CentOS 8, is there an equivalent for the gnote application?
I personally use vimwiki.
Have you tried compiling the Fedora srpm on your Centos box? A lot of stuff
that you might want to
On 12/25/20 12:42 AM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote:
As I can see, Cherytree can be used only on Fedora 32 and above due to
dependencies.
I personally use Tomboy for years. I install it from Fedora 28
repository I have set up on my CentOS 8 laptop. In general, Fedora 28
packages can be directly inst
On 4/7/21 7:27 AM, Kenneth Porter wrote:
--On Wednesday, April 07, 2021 9:00 AM + Gestió Servidors
wrote:
With these files I supposed that a file with more than 10 days in /tmp
would be automatically deleted, but today I have found some files/folders
with more than 10 days.
What I have d
When I first ssh to a system, I am asked for the password to unlock the private key file.
Thereafter, that key file remains unlocked, and subsequent ssh sessions will not prompt
for a password. I can always re-lock the key file by running "ssh-add -D". In a
script I have that runs sshfs to moun
t; is really part of my email address.
Do NOT delete it.
On 1/9/22 12:54 PM, cen...@niob.at wrote:
Look at ssh-add -T . This will test if the private key for the
given public key is available through the agent.
Am 07.01.22 um 23:35 schrieb Robert Nichols:
When I first ssh to a sy
On 1/20/22 10:32 AM, Fabian Arrotin wrote:
On 19/01/2022 15:32, Toralf Lund wrote:
Following some update or the other (I think) on my CentOS Stream 8 system, I'm
no longer able to use ping as a regular user; I get
$ ping www.centos.org
ping: socket: Operation not permitted
Does anyone else se
Does anything for CentOS 8 provide the function of the fstab-decode utility?
Entries in /proc/mounts and /etc/fstab can have escape sequences for certain
special characters, and I need to decode that.
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Bob Nichols "NOSPAM" is really part of my email address.
Do NOT delete i
On 2/27/22 12:26 PM, cen...@niob.at wrote:
Am 27.02.22 um 04:33 schrieb Robert Nichols:
Does anything for CentOS 8 provide the function of the fstab-decode utility?
Entries in /proc/mounts and /etc/fstab can have escape sequences for certain special characters, and I need to decode that
On 2/28/22 1:22 AM, cen...@niob.at wrote:
Am 28.02.22 um 05:45 schrieb Robert Nichols:
On 2/27/22 12:26 PM, cen...@niob.at wrote:
Am 27.02.22 um 04:33 schrieb Robert Nichols:
Does anything for CentOS 8 provide the function of the fstab-decode utility?
Entries in /proc/mounts and /etc/fstab
On 2/28/22 8:46 AM, Robert Nichols wrote:
On 2/28/22 1:22 AM, cen...@niob.at wrote:
Am 28.02.22 um 05:45 schrieb Robert Nichols:
On 2/27/22 12:26 PM, cen...@niob.at wrote:
Am 27.02.22 um 04:33 schrieb Robert Nichols:
Does anything for CentOS 8 provide the function of the fstab-decode utility
On 3/1/22 3:46 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote:
On 3/1/22 10:29, Gordon Messmer wrote:
Chris Schanzle mentioned off-list that a tab character had been replaced with spaces (I *knew* that should have been an attached file, shame on me). He also suggested an improvement that removes the tab character,
On 3/1/22 7:07 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote:
On 3/1/22 15:36, Robert Nichols wrote:
"${cmdline[@]}"
The problem there is that the last line is going to get interpreted by a shell
before anything is executed, so you now have to escape characters that are
special to the shell withi
On 2/10/23 11:07, Joshua Kramer wrote:
This may provide the answer you are looking for: it's being deprecated in
favor of Cockpit.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2030592
Deprecated, yes, rut only in Red Hat. Still fully supported upstream.
https://blog.wikichoon.com/2020/06/virt-m
Ryan Pugatch wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Curious issue.. looking in to how much disk space is being used on a
> machine (CentOS 5.3). When I compare the output of du vs df, I am
> seeing a 12GB difference with du saying 8G used and df saying 20G used.
>
> # du -hcx /
> 8.0Gtotal
>
> # df -h /
>
Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Les Mikesell wrote:
>
>> but out of curiosity, did you just do a
>> simple yum update or did you follow the procedure in the release notes
>> document?
>
> Where is this document?
>
> Incidentally, I did a simple yum update and it seemed to work fine.
On the centos.org h
David Suhendrik wrote:
> Still waiting for DVD 5.4 64 bit
>
Have you been looking, or just expecting a DVD to show up in your
mailbox?? Go to the CentOS homepage, http://www.centos.org/ .
At the top of the page you'll see CentOS Download Information.
Click on "CentOS-5 ISOs", then on "x86_64".
Rod Rook wrote:
> Having used Fedora 8 and 10 for a long time and Fedora 11 for a few
> months and never experienced this in these distros, I can say this bug
> occurs only in old versions of Red Had distros like CentOS. Now that I
> know this is a bug, I will move on hoping that others will so
adrian kok wrote:
> Hi
>
> I mistype this shell#/rm a.tar.gz
>
> it works but it won't confirm and the file is remove
>
> why?
And now you mistyped your mistyping. That would be a backslash
(\) not a forward slash (/). Escaping the command name with a
backslash bypasses the "alias rm='rm -i'"
Carlos Santana wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Does mount point specification while partitioning (order in which I
> specify /, /boot, swap etc..) affect performance? I am not sure about
> the syntax, but I guess one can also specify address/block range while
> partitioning. Does it affect IO performance? Probab
James B. Byrne wrote:
> I see many entries in /var/log/secure similar to these:
>
> . . .
> /var/log/secure.1:Dec 31 08:00:55 gway01 sshd[7220]: Received
> disconnect from 93.89.144.31: 11: Bye Bye
> /var/log/secure.1:Dec 31 08:00:58 gway01 sshd[7221]: Failed password
> for root from 93.89.144.31
Jussi Hirvi wrote:
> I think nobody has yet mentioned rdiff-backup. I have very good
> experiences with it. Easy to setup and control (only remember first to
> install the required packages, and I think rsync-devel was not mentioned
> but is required).
What did you run into that requires rsync-
Robert Heller wrote:
> At Sat, 23 Jan 2010 12:43:40 + CentOS mailing list
> wrote:
>
>> Just curious. What is the difference between the command above and "find
>> -exec rm -f {} \;" ?
>
> The command "find -exec rm -f {} \;" collects ALL of the names
> "find " as a single command line,
James B. Byrne wrote:
> On Sat, January 23, 2010 20:21, Robert Nichols wrote:
>> Robert Heller wrote:
>
>> Gosh, then I guess the manpage for 'find' must be totally wrong
>> where it
>> says:
>>
>> -exec command ;
>>
Les Mikesell wrote:
> On 1/26/2010 11:42 AM, James B. Byrne wrote:
>> On Mon, January 25, 2010 13:40, Les Mikesell wrote:
>> .
>>> I'd say it is more likely that the command that resulted in an error
>>> wasn't exactly what was posted or there is a filesystem problem.
>>>
>> I do not consider a fil
Tom Brown wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have to use find to change the perms of a directory and files within
> that directory recursively but i need to exclude a directory within the
> top level directory, as its a netapp and so contains a read only
> .snapshot dir.
>
> I have tried...
>
> # find /var/da
Mogens Kjaer wrote:
> On 02/04/2010 02:15 PM, Mogens Kjaer wrote:
> ...
>> How do I mount /dev/sdb1 automatically at boot?
>
> It turns out to be some sort of race condition:
>
> If I modify /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit:
>
> ...
> STRING=$"Checking filesystems"
> echo $STRING
>
John Doe wrote:
> From: Ian Forde
>> On Thu, 2010-02-04 at 14:19 -0800, Kenneth Porter wrote:
>>> --On Thursday, February 04, 2010 8:36 AM -0600 Robert Nichols
>>>> Looks like that's about all you can do. USB devices aren't available
>>>> un
Kai Schaetzl wrote:
What does the plus sign after the blocks value exactly mean in the fdisk
output? Some research reveals that it indicates that not all the blocks
are included in the fdisk value. But what does this exactly mean?
Those blocks are 1024 bytes each, so you'll see that "+" when t
Michael Simpson wrote:
do you have any mention of the new kernel in /etc/grub.conf?
you might find that the default kernel is still the original one in
which case there would be a line like
default=1 in grub.conf
changing this to default=0 might bring up the new kernel on reboot
i have an old d
Filipe Brandenburger wrote:
Hi,
On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 5:26 AM, Ned Slider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I have the following entries, below, in today's log file (for yesterday,
10th May).
I don't run the automated yum-updated and didn't run a yum update
yesterday, and no packages were install
MHR wrote:
Yes, using fqpn's is best in situations like this, but if I read the
above correctly, you want:
ln -s /mnt/jack/files /opt/files
because you said you mounted jack's /opt on jill's /mnt/jack, not
jack's / (root).
Still, why you would get /opt/files/files is a mystery to me, too.
Yo
Given a path to a SCSI device, e.g. "DEV=/dev/st1", I need to find
the name of the kernel module for the SCSI host adapter that controls
that target. The objective is to be able to unload and reload the
kernel module when the drive gets into a state that requires a SCSI
bus reset for recovery.
T
Nigel Kendrick wrote:
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
Of Ralph Angenendt
Sent: Friday, June 20, 2008 10:01 AM
To: centos@centos.org
Subject: Re: [CentOS] Mounting Floppies
Nigel Kendrick wrote:
So is it me, CentOS 5 or something else? (Idea
I just had the misfortune to press Shift-{print screen} accidentally
while in a Gnome desktop, and the result was a completely unresponsive
system where the only recovery was a power switch initiated shutdown.
Further investigation shows the runaway creation of gnome-screenshot
processes.
System
Ralph Angenendt wrote:
Robert Nichols wrote:
System is CentOS 5.2 fully updated on an Intel i686.
Suggestions about what component should receive the bugzilla report
are welcome.
Are you able to recreate it? It happened to me once, I've never seen the
issue again after that.
Ralph
Robert Nichols wrote:
I just had the misfortune to press Shift-{print screen} accidentally
while in a Gnome desktop, and the result was a completely unresponsive
system where the only recovery was a power switch initiated shutdown.
Further investigation shows the runaway creation of gnome
Sean Carolan wrote:
I'm attempting to block access to port 53 from internet hosts for an
internal server. This device is behind a gateway router so all
traffic appears to come from source ip 10.100.1.1. Here are my
(non-working) iptables rules:
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -s 10.100.1.1 -m tcp -p tc
Sean Carolan wrote:
Does the count field from "iptables -vnL RH-Firewall-1-INPUT" show
your REJECT rules being hit?
Yes, the rule gets hit and it returns an answer to the DNS query
anyway. I saw it increment from 10 to 11 when I ran the query:
11 692 REJECT udp -- * * 10.10
Robert Moskowitz wrote:
Sometime in the past two weeks, Some kind person pointed me to a GREAT
document file that explained all those commands you find in the ifcfg-*
files and the network file (and others, I believe).
It was a great help to me, and now I need it again, and I did not write
do
On 12/04/2011 01:08 PM, fred smith wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 04, 2011 at 10:24:00PM +0800, Ho Chaw Ming wrote:
>> Check your bios, and make sure that you did not have IDE mode enabled and
>> AHCI is selected .
>
> Also, is this one of the "Green" series of WD disks? Those have
> a 4KB sector size, not t
Joseph L. Casale wrote:
> I need a little help, trying to search for a line that begins with /dev
> and ends with a single digit that I will choose, like 5. I can search for
> ^/dev and 5$ but I am having trouble forming the combined search pattern
> using egrep.
If you mean any single digit not p
nate wrote:
> Scott Silva wrote:
>
>> But if you only have read access to the original file, can you overwrite it?
>
> If you have write access to the directory yes you should be able
> to, if you only have read access to the directory I would expect
> not.
Technically, that's not overwriting.
cen...@911networks.com wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is there a way to run fsck or any other program to check if there is
> drive problem. I don't want it repaired, now, but maybe later on.
>
> I can't shutdown the system and reboot in single user-mode.
>
> All suggestions are welcomed.
You can run fsck wit
Lanny Marcus wrote:
> My wife's box has a very intermittent problem, when booting from the
> Maxtor IDE hard drive. This has been going on for about 2 1/2
> years The box is a Compaq EVO D300v for the Enterprise. When it
> boots, there is a SMART advisory from the BIOS that says failure is
> i
MHR wrote:
> Semi-OT?
>
> I just got a new SanDisk 8GB flash drive, and, as usual, it came with
> the U3 software (for Windoze) on a "CD" partition and considerably
> less than 8GB on the disk partition. I put it into my WinXP portable
> and told U3 to delete itself, but I still can't get at the
MHR wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 8:25 AM, Robert
> Nichols wrote:
>> If you go into fdisk's "expert" mode and set the geometry to
>> 31 heads, 31 sectors/track, 16319 cylinders you can utilize
>> the full 8029470208 bytes.
>>
>
> I was able
Robert Nichols wrote:
> MHR wrote:
>> On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 8:25 AM, Robert
>> Nichols wrote:
>>> If you go into fdisk's "expert" mode and set the geometry to
>>> 31 heads, 31 sectors/track, 16319 cylinders you can utilize
>>> the full 802
Robert wrote:
Robert Nichols wrote:
The first thing I do with every USB flash drive I buy is figure
out a geometry that uses all of the sectors reported by fdisk
(I have a shell script that does that in a pretty much brute force
way.) and then repartition and re-format the drive using that
Robert wrote:
>
> Robert Nichols wrote:
>> Robert wrote:
>>> Robert Nichols wrote:
>>>> The first thing I do with every USB flash drive I buy is figure
>>>> out a geometry that uses all of the sectors reported by fdisk
>>>> (I have a
MHR wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 8:14 AM, Robert
> Nichols wrote:
>> Sure. I'll try it as a small attachment here. It that doesn't
>> work, and I suspect it won't, I'll have to find some spot where
>> I can upload it. I don't have anything l
Ron Blizzard wrote:
1
> Jul 1 03:54:26 localhost hald[2450]: forcibly attempting to lazy
> unmount /dev/sda1 as enclosing drive was disc
That indicates that you unplugged the drive without first unmounting
it, which is very likely to cause exactly the problem you are seeing.
--
Bob Nichols
Ron Blizzard wrote:
> One thing that is odd -- sometimes when I unmount the flash drive, I
> get a notice on the bottom of the screen that says 1) Wait until the
> files are written to the flash and 2) It is now safe to remove the
> flash drive. But I only get these notices some of the time -- mayb
John R Pierce wrote:
> Ron Blizzard wrote:
>> I downloaded Firefox 3.5 from the M. Harris site and, for the most
>> part, have had good luck with it. But I have also had hard crashes
>> that take down CentOS, not just Firefox.
>>
>> It happened to me twice on eBay (on the same page) -- and now I ca
Ross Walker wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 5:00 AM, Chan Chung Hang
> Christopher wrote:
>
> Question now is, was the first sector of partition 1 damaged (was it
> 63 or 64 sectors dd'd)?
>
> If so it will require a more tricky procedure to fix.
No, the ext2 file system does not use the first 1
Ross Walker wrote:
> On Aug 14, 2009, at 12:48 PM, Robert Nichols
> wrote:
>
>> Ross Walker wrote:
>>> On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 5:00 AM, Chan Chung Hang
>>> Christopher wrote:
>>>
>>> Question now is, was the first sector of partition 1 damage
Ross Walker wrote:
>
> Since you don't know if LVM has a recovery path how can you imply it
> doesn't?
I've seen plenty of evidence that tools for LVM recovery are lacking.
I see postings from people asking about recovery of damaged LVM
volumes and not getting any reasonable answers about how t
Dave wrote:
> Hello,
> I've got a CentOS box and users are putting Windows long files on
> it, files with " " and " - " in their filenames. I'm trying to adjust the
> permissions as well as user and group membership and i'd like the changes to
> be sticky. On the tld i've set permissions of 2
Somewhere during the course of recent updates I've lost the Java plugin
for Firefox. Not sure when it happened, but I know Java was working in
Firefox earlier this year. Firefox comes up empty when searching for a
suitable plugin. I'm running a fully updated CentOS 5.3 with the
following package
In a highly frustrated moment I wrote:
> Somewhere during the course of recent updates I've lost the Java plugin
> for Firefox. Not sure when it happened, but I know Java was working in
> Firefox earlier this year. Firefox comes up empty when searching for a
> suitable plugin. I'm running a full
Jacob Bresciani wrote:
> OK, this should be an easy fix but I can't find it, and it's strictly
> a cosmetic's issue.
>
> on our older Gentoo systems if you do an ls -a it orders the results
> with all the . files ordered alphabetically then all the non-hidden
> files alphabetically. it also
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